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Tonight it's our final night guest hosting the nationally-syndicated Mike Malloy Show for the year and, the final Mike Malloy Show of the year, for that matter! It's also our last one before the 2012 voting finally begins... For our New Years Eve Eve show, we'll be BradCasting again LIVE from 9pm-Mid ET (6p-9p PT), coast-to-coast and around the uprising globe from the studios of L.A.'s KTLK am1150 in beautiful downtown Burbank....

Votes in next Tuesday's Republican caucuses in Iowa will be cast on paper ballots and hand counted publicly at each and every caucus site, according to a report late this week from Politico's Jonathan Martin. In other words, Republicans will be relying on "Democracy's Gold Standard" when it comes to casting and counting ballots in their own election, in which they set all of the rules, even if they will not

The BRAD BLOG was the first to report that the former disgraced Speaker of the House turned Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich had admitted to committing massive "voter fraud" --- thousands of cases --- in his failed attempt to qualify for the Republican Presidential Primary ballot in his home state of Virginia. Our report on Wednesday came just minutes after Gingrich's caught-on-video admission to a voter in Iowa that his campaign had

We're back again tonight guest hosting the nationally syndicated Mike Malloy Show as the end of the hellish year draws near and the next hellish year will soon begin. LOTS to discuss tonight, so hope you'll tune in! We're BradCasting again LIVE 9pm-Mid ET (6p-9p PT), coast-to-coast and around the uprising globe from the studios of L.A.'s KTLK am1150 in beautiful downtown Burbank....

This is both hysterical and enlightening. Here, courtesy of WaPo's Ezra Klein [hat-tip Rachel Maddow], is what the Iowa polls have looked like over the past year. It also seems pretty indictative to me of the failed state of the entire Republican Party at this moment in history... Noticing a pattern? [A pattern about which I suspect I'll have a few words tonight and tomorrow while guest hosting the nationally syndicated Mike Malloy...

Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning Buried at p. AA3 of the 12/28 LAEXTRA section of Los Angeles Times, beneath the headline, "Occupy protest plan prompts beefed up Rose Parade Security" ("Rose Parade security beefed up as Occupy plans protest" in the online version) one can find news of a significant accord....

If the same standards are applied to Newt Gingrich as have, for years, been applied to the now-defunct ACORN organization by both Republicans and their media arm, Fox "News", then it seems Newt Gingrich's campaign has committed thousands of acts of voter fraud. As CNN and TPM are reporting right now: Newt Gingrich, who failed to make it onto the ballot in Virginia, is alleging that fraud on the part of one of

Not sure, but I'm fairly certain the photo being used with the top story on the CNN iPhone app at this moment doesn't actually go with the top story. Or does it?...

[Note: I will be on Thom Hartmann's TV show, The Big Picture, tonight, to discuss this, and other recently related stories. - BF] From ThinkProgress [emphasis in original]... A 93-year-old Tennessee woman who cleaned the state Capitol for 30 years, including the governor's office, says she won't be able to vote for the first time in decades after being told this week that her old state ID failed to meet new voter ID