Hosting Facility Issues

The hosting facility for the server at TalkLeft is having "issues." We hope to be back up soon.

TalkLeft is Down

Sorry everyone, TalkLeft appears to be down and I'm having trouble reaching our webmaster. Hopefully we will be back up soon.

Wednesday Afternoon Open Thread and Blog Issues

TalkLeft has been going down intermittently all day. We're working on it and will probably re-boot the server shortly, so if you get an error message, check back. Hopefully we'll get it resolved soon. If not, I'll post at our backup site here.

In other news, Manuel Noriega has been sentenced to 7 years in France.

The U.S. has added new defendants and charges to the Najibullah Zazi New York terror case.

President Obama has scored his first guilty plea at a Guantanamo military commission hearing.Sudanese-born Ibrahim al-Qos, bin Laden's former cook and driver, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism. Sentencing will be in August.

This is an open thread, all topics welcome. Our apologies for the site problems.

TalkLeft is Back Up

TalkLeft was down for a few minutes but we're back up now.

Election Night Backup Site

This is the backup site for TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime.

The election results are about to come in. If TalkLeft goes down, you can find us here.

McCain-Palin: A Disaster in the Making?

TalkLeft is on overload. Here's a place to continue the discussion on McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate.

I think this will be a redux of McGovern-Eagleton.

TalkLeft is Down Again

I'm not sure why, maybe the 2,600 people who tried to access it in the last hour. We're working on it.

In the meantime, you can comment here as an open thread.

I've got a lot of pictures up on Picasa. Yesterday's photos are here, earlier convention photos are here.

Invesco Field

If tAlkleft goes down you can fond updates here . I'm uploading pix to Flickr . See box ok the right.