Give Feedback

Archives

How religion guides Palin -- chicagotribune.com
"I can do my job there in developing our natural resources and doing things like getting the roads paved and making sure our troopers have their cop cars and their uniforms and their guns, and making s...
U.S. nears rescue plan for Fannie, Freddie - Washington Post- msnbc.com
The government has formulated a plan to put troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under federal control, dismiss their top executives and prop them up financially, federal officials told ...
Classic 60 Minutes wet kiss to OBAMA
In his latest inside-the-White-House book, Bob Woodward reveals the thoughts and strategies governing the war in Iraq that come directly from the president and his inner circle. Scott Pelley reports. S...
To counter Palin, Obama to dispatch female surrogates - International Herald Tribune
ST. PAUL Senator Barack Obama will increasingly lean on prominent Democratic women to undercut Governor Sarah Palin and Senator John McCain, dispatching Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to Florida on Mon...
DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2005�
Petulant OPRAH wields power like a POTENTATE. Will only put Palin on show if forced....
iowahawk: The Idiossey
The Not-Really-That-Epic Poem of Obamacles (with Apologies to Homer)...
FactCheck.org: FactChecking McCain
He made some flubs in accepting the nomination....
Lexington | The woman from nowhere | Economist.com
Lexington - Sep 4th 2008 - From The Economist print edition - The most audacious move of the race so far is also, potentially, the most self-destructive. John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his runn...
Science Questions for Would-Be Presidents: Scientific American
Note: This article, to be published in the October 2008 issue of Scientific American, was originally printed with the title, "Questions for Would-Be Presidents." Add your own questions for McCain and O...
McCain, Obama tied in TV audiences - Brietbart AP
Nielsen said that 38.9 million people watched McCain accept the GOP nomination Thursday on either ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel or MSNBC. PBS, which has a more imprecise estimate based on sample...
Women, sexism and Sarah Palin | Democracy in America | Economist.com
WILL Sarah Palin help John McCain win more votes cast by women, particularly those who supported the historic candidacy of Hillary Clinton? The polls are coming in and so far the answer is no. Accordin...
Digg - EPIC Sign Held Up at McCain's RNC Speech
Note the security guards quickly taking it down. CSPAN cut away from this very quickly. ...
ABC News: Investigation into Palin Now on Fast Track
ABC News has exclusively learned that Alaska Senator Hollis French will announce today that he is moving up the release date of his investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her office to get ...
The Issue Sarah Palin Must Address: I Want to See Her Naked | Cracked.com
If you’ve visited digg.com at any point over the past two weeks, you’ve probably seen a ton of articles about Sarah Palin. Various scandals she may be involved in . Various scandals she someday wil...
Media Matters - A test for the media by Jamison Foser
The McCain campaign's war against the media shouldn't be surprising; this is what conservatives do. The only real question is what reporters are going to do about it. Are they going to fall for the abs...
Home loan troubles break records again: AP Yahoo!
The Mortgage Bankers Association said Friday that more than 4 million American homeowners with a mortgage -- a record 9 percent -- were either behind on their payments or in foreclosure at the end of J...
Lynn Westmoreland: Everything’s Better When it ‘Sits on a Ritz’ | The Omnipotent Poobah Speaks!
DOH! Everyone says something stupid sooner or later, it’s the curse of the error-prone connection between the human brain and mouth. When the average person tastes gritty shoe leather in their pie ho...
Sarah Palin's Western style Conservatism really Goldwater Libertarian
All the buzz is about Sarah Palin's rugged individualist Western views. But is she really a Conservative, as the media is portraying her, or actually a Libertarian?...
Tom Toles Cartoon - (washingtonpost.com)
"Watch out, Mr. Bush! With the exception of economic policy and energy policy and social issues and tax policy and foreign policy and Supreme Court appointments, we're coming in there to shake things u...
The Resentment Strategy - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
Can the super-rich former governor of Massachusetts the son of a Fortune 500 C.E.O. who made a vast fortune in the leveraged-buyout business really keep a straight face while denouncing “Eastern elit...
Daily Kos: Not Zero! 820 and 427 and 152!
820 is the number of laws Obama sponsored in the Illinois State Senate. 427 is the current count of the number of bills Obama has co-sponsored in the U.S. Senate. 152, is the most recent tally of the n...
Daily Kos: McCain Winning Coveted "Stock Photos" Demographic?
The Republicans couldn't find very many African American supporters to show on the Big Screen Of Triumph, so they simply put up stock photos of black people. CBS News pointed out that the solemn pictur...
With highway money running out, President Bush pulls a U-turn - LAT blog
Earlier this year, the U.S. government's highway trust fund was projected to run low in 2009. But President Bush threatened to veto legislation that would have bailed it out with general tax money. Now...
Palin bridge to nowhere line angers many Alaskans - Reuters
It garnered big applause in her first speech as Republican John McCain's vice presidential pick, but Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's assertion that she rejected Congressional funds for the so-called "bridge ...
Why Palin’s Speech Worked by Lisa Schiffren, City Journal 4 September 2008
Last night, Sarah Palin, the previously obscure governor of Alaska, demonstrated before a national audience that she has an extraordinary ability to communicate with Americans. As someone who used to m...
Jonathan Martin's Blog: Standing by "uppity" - Politico.com
Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, a Georgian and lifelong Southerner, described Barack and Michelle Obama as "uppity" this week. And he's not backing off. A spokesman told the AP that his boss didn't know ...
ACORN: Value Of Community Organizing | Sweetness & Light
September 04, 2008 ACORN President Maude Hurd issued the following statement after presumptive Republican vice president pick Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuiliani made dispa...
So What Did Obama Teach In Law School? | Sweetness & Light
(Click to enlarge) By JODI KANTOR July 30, 2008 CHICAGO — The young law professor stood apart in too many ways to count. At a school where economic analysis was all the rage, he taught rights, race a...
Jonathan Martin's Blog: Nielsen: McCain got more viewers than Obama - Politico.com
According to Neilsen, John McCain's acceptance last night drew more viewers than that of Barack Obama the previous week. McCain had approximately 38.9 viewers and Obama 38.4. More men watched McC...
Electoral-vote.com: Sept. 5 - McCain's Speech, Sarah Palin, Today's Polls
Several normally red states are leaning blue recently in latest polls. John McCain delivered his first (and possibly only) State-of-the-Union speech last night. No more red meat, like Sarah Palin did t...
Top 7 Myths, Lies and Untruths About Sarah Palin - America’s Election HQ
By Maxim Lott Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been subjected to an intense amount of media and public scrutiny since she was named as John McCain’s vice presidential pick one week ago. Many of the attack...
Sarah Palin Tribute Editorial Cartoons « BUUUUURRRRNING HOT
Can someone please tip Michelle Malkin on this??? Just to give it a go… LAST UPDATE: 5 September 2008 (check back regularly for MORE!) TOTAL CARTOONS: 57 Feel free to repost these cartoons as you ple...
Crooks and Liars » O’Reilly treats Obama with no respect on the Factor
? I just started watching the first part of BillO’s series of interviews with Obama and I have to say that Bill attacks Obama with a mean spirited and nasty viciousness that he has never used against...
John McCain and Barack Obama focus on job losses, economy - Los Angeles Times
More on LATimes.com ...
Street Organizers; At Work - Code Pink | Sweetness & Light
A protester interrupts a speech by Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota September 4, 2008. Attendees subdue a Code Pink pro...
Biden Admits Plagiarism in School But Says It Was Not 'Malevolent' - New York Times
LEAD: Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., fighting to salvage his Presidential campaign, today acknowledged ''a mistake'' in his youth, when he plagiarized a law review article for a paper he wrote in his fir...
URGENT AGENDA: 9.05.08: FROM THE U.K.
FROM THE U.K. Posted at 6:54 a.m. Why is it that some of the best commentary on our campaign is coming from the mother country?? We've quoted Gerard Baker of The Times of London many times before.? Now...
Words They Used - 2008 Political Conventions - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
The words that speakers used at the two political conventions show the themes that the parties have highlighted. Republican speakers have talked about reform and character far more frequently than the ...
Liberty Alert: Latest Target of the Nanny-State: Plastic Bags
Local politicians find yet another item to ban...
GOP's Plan for Palin: Reignite the Culture Wars | | AlterNet
John McCain's convention gambit is now a culture war strategy. It depends for its execution on conflict with journalists , and with bloggers (the "angry left," Bush called them last night) along with c...
IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Michelle's Boot Camps For Radicals
Democrats' reintroduction of militant Michelle Obama in Denver was supposed to show her softer side. But it only highlighted a radical part of her resume: Public Allies. Read More: Election 2008 Barack...
Sarah Palin's go west; towards the future of conservatism | Gerard Baker - Times Online
The best line I heard about Sarah Palin during the frenzied orgy of chauvinist condescension and gutter-crawling journalistic intrusion that greeted her nomination for vice-president a week ago came fr...
Sarah Palin can have it all
from the September 5, 2008 edition Bluemont, Va. - The five children. The newborn diagnosed with Down syndrome. The pregnant daughter. Sarah Palin's life – chock full of challenge – con...
URGENT AGENDA: 9.04.08: ROVE
Karl Rove, based on his own excellent instincts, and after speaking with scholars on the subject, has this take on the impact of Sarah Palin over the next two months: Taking on Alaska's good-old...
Power Line: 40 Million?!
The Associated Press reports that, counting PBS, over 40 million Americans watched Sarah Palin on television last night--more, by around two million, than saw Barack Obama in Denver. I suppose we sh...
Another 70s Show: Expert Calls Obama’s School Pic a Fake
Jihadi 101: Un-Photoshopped pic shows true nature of Obama’s “school.”  The class photo of Barack Obama’s fifth grade class  is a fake. That’s what a photographer and seventies fashion ...
Daily Kos: Obama: Would send Attorney General to review Bush War Crimes
Looking to the future but with one eye on the past, Biden also promised that an Obama-Biden government would go through Bush administration data with "a fine-toothed comb" and pursue criminal charg...
YouTube - Ron Paul on Fox News
Ron Paul on Your World with Neil Cavuto. See Ron Paul's Rally Speech (or the whole who Rally for the Republic) here: http://ronpaulnews.net/2008/09/ron-pa... ...
Digg - FBI Wanted Obama Plotters Charged,But Rove Appointee Said No
firedoglake.com — We noticed last week that it was awfully peculiar that Colorado ’s U.S. Attorney, Troy Eid, had so airily dismissed conspiracy charges against the three white-supremacist tweak...
Why the Media Should Apologize
On behalf of the media, I would like to say we are sorry. On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very sorry. We have asked questions this week that we should never have asked. We have...
YouTube - Olbermann Smacks down the RNC over 911 Tribute
...
Democrats say Palin mimics Bush divisiveness - CNN.com
(CNN) -- Democrats accused Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin of mirroring "divisive" attacks by President Bush Wednesday night and said showed she wasn't qualified to be on the ticket....
In a More Diverse America, A Mostly White Convention - washingtonpost.com
As the country rapidly diversifies, Republicans are presenting a convention that is almost entirely white. Only 36 of the 2,380 delegates seated on the convention floor are black, the lowest number sin...
Dems React To Palin Speech: "Formidable," "Shrill And Sarcastic" (VIDEO)
Barack Obama responded personally to Sarah Palin's speech, saying, "You're hearing an awful lot about me, most of which is not true. What you're not hearing is a lot about you." ...
Why we were falsely arrested
Government crackdowns on journalists are a true threat to democracy. As the Republican National Convention meets in St. Paul, Minn., this week, police are systematically targeting journalists. I was ar...
Out of Touch: Cindy McCain's Monday Outfit Cost $300,000 : vanityfair.com
The Marilyn Files A secret trove of Marilyn Monroe?s treasured possessions has been unearthed after 45 years. See it only on VF.com. POWER The New Establishment Keep up with the moguls and machers of t...
Jon Stewart Annihilates Sarah Palin's Media Surrogates | Comedy Central Insider
I wasn't alive to see Michelangelo paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. I wasn't born yet when The Beatles toured. And I probably won't ever get out to see that Japanese dude eat all them hotdogs. ...
Blogging for President Obama: Legislative Experience: Senator Barack Obama (D-IL)
What exactly has Senator Obama accomplished in the IL State Senate and during his tenure thus far in the US Senate?? Detractors try to tell you us he's only good for a speech.? Fighting back the knee-j...
'A Way Out of the Georgia Crisis for Russia and the West': Le Figaro of France
Le Figaro, France A Way Out of the Georgia Crisis for Russia and the West "The general state of relations between Russia and the West is deteriorating by the hour. … The enlargement of Europe c...
Beware the 'Pit-Bull With Lipstick': From Nachrichten of Switzerland
Nachrichten, Switzerland Beware The 'Pit-Bull With Lipstick' "Even if she tries to smile it away and to make it look pretty: The pregnancy of her daughter can be directly attributed to the twiste...
U.S. Republicans: The Reawakening of Moral Intolerance - Le Figaro of France
Le Figaro, France U.S. Republicans: The Reawakening of Moral Intolerance "There is cause to protest this equation in which a particular group - the Christian right - has a monopoly on morality...
'Americans Appear Shut Out of Iraqi Oil Field In Favor of China': From Iraq's Azzaman
Azzaman, Iraq Americans Appear Shut Out of Iraqi Oil Field In Favor of China "Well-informed Iraqi sources revealed that the decision to allow China to exploit the field comes in the context of...
Police block anti-war march to GOP convention: Had NO permit.
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Police arrested several people who refused to disperse after an aborted anti-war march to the site of the Republican National Convention site on Thursday instead turned into a moving...
FactCheck.org: GOP Convention Spin, Part II
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was a hit with the party faithful at the GOP convention, but some of her claims were amiss. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Arkansas Go...
She's Phyllis Schlafly, Only Younger by Gloria Steinem
September 4, 2008 Here?s the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing?the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party?are trying to appease the ge...
Daily Kos: What Could You Buy With What Mrs McCain Spent on that Dress?
The fashion experts at Vanity Fair estimated the value of Cindy McCain's outfit on Tuesday night to be in the range of $300,000. That's a lot of bling. So, what does $300,000 buy in America? - An av...
The Reality-Based Community: Why does the GOP hate Catholics?
Joe Klein nails another one, pointing out that Obama's job of community organizer, so gleefully derided by both Palin and Giuliani, was a Roman Catholic organization, serving parishes that were looking...
The Reality-Based Community: Palin v. Reality
Well, that was quick. The Obama campaign is doing its job. Now we get to see whether the media will do their job, or whether they will be cowed into submission. I'm not taking bets either way......
America Has Taken One Too Many Punches to the Head | The Omnipotent Poobah Speaks!
  Politics used to be a blood sport that caused boxers to blanch at its violence. There were roundhouse punches to the head and every speech left some blood on the mat. Sometimes the wounds were self-...
Power Line: 37 Million!
Last night, I asked how many people would watch Sarah Palin's speech. The largest television audience ever to see a speech at a political convention, I believe, was the 38 million who saw Barack Obama ...
Intrade Prediction Markets
Is there a similar market on Joe Biden dropping out? Seems that at least today, this market has done like the big stock market - dropped. ...
Power Line: What's worse than a politician who talks one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco?
A pundit who writes one way in a column and talks another way on a microphone she thinks is dead. UPDATE: Noonan has tried to explain why she hadn't written the thoughts she expressed when she tho...
Obama's Chicago Boys
Barack Obama waited just three days after Hillary Clinton pulled out of the race to declare, on CNBC, "Look. I am a pro-growth, free-market guy. I love the market." This column was amended slight...
Elizabeth Austin: Barack Mans Up, McCain Wusses Out
Barack Obama will appear on The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News tonight. John McCain cancelled his interview with CNN. That sums up all you need to know about either candidate - and, in a nutshell, explain...
Bookworm Room » Quick impressions of Palin’s speech
I missed the last 15 minutes of Sarah’s speech because TiVo had stopped recording it (and I was at a meeting when she was live), but I came away with some strong impressions nevertheless.  (I’ll w...
URGENT AGENDA: 9.04.08: SARAH FROM THE U.K.
There are few sights more bloodcurdling than the liberal pack in full cry. The viciousness of the attacks on Sarah Palin is a testimony to the degree of panic her appointment has generated in Leftist c...
Joe Biden says Barack Obama might pursue criminal charges against Bush administration if elected | World news | guardian.co.uk
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said earlier this week that he and running mate Barack Obama could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration if they are elected in November...
AP: Attacks, Praise Stretch Truth At GOP Convention
Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases,...
Election Will Hinge on Abortion Issue - Yahoo! News
For those interested, I will be making my choice for president public next week. The candidates, we now know, are Barack Obama and Joe Biden for the Democrats and John McCain and Sarah Palin for the R...
American Thinker Blog: The Palin phenomenon
Sarah Palin has delivered a remarkable speech, perhaps the most electrifying vice presidential nomination acceptance speech in history. She has the uncanny ability to look right into the camera and see...
URGENT AGENDA: 9.04.08: SARAH
It's all Sarah all the time. Her speech last night will be the main subject of political talk throughout the day. The usual suspects will either praise or condemn her. Most "observers," as usual, wi...
American Thinker Blog: Hyde Park, we have a problem...
The smug laughter among liberal elites at Sarah Palin is quieting down, replaced by low moaning. Clive Crook of The Atlantic admits that there might have been just a bit of misunderestimating going on ...
American Thinker: Just so we're clear
When conservatives and others question the absence of any executive experience of Barack Obama and why it is that a man who has spent just over a hundred days as a United States Senator is so close to ...
American Thinker: Palin Rules, Libs Drool
A couple of hours before Sarah Palin rocked the house in St. Paul last night, I caught a few minutes of Bill O'Reilly's interview with Sally Quinn, who is front and center among the female media elites...
URGENT AGENDA: 9.03.08: HANSON
We're now about three hours away from the most anticipated speech by a vice-presidential candidate since Richard Nixon introduced us to his kids' cocker spaniel, "Checkers," in 1952. Sarah Palin speak...
American Thinker: Palin offers conservatives a moment of truth
What is it with conservatives, anyway? It seems that there's nothing the left can pull that is so vile, so repellent, so disgusting -- whether involving media, politics, academia -- that some conservat...
Sarah Palin Had Affair, Says National Enquirer
Just as Sarah Palin was preparing to speak at the Republican convention in St. Paul (more on that momentarily), word bubbled up that the National Enquirer alleged in its print edition that John McCain ...
Think Progress » Olbermann fact-checks Huckabee.
During his RNC speech tonight, Mike Huckabee declared that Sarah Palin “got more votes running for Mayor of Wasilla than Joe Biden got running for President of the United States.” After his speech,...
8 More Shocking Revelations About Sarah Palin
Since the McCain campaign apparently didn't even bother Googling Sarah Palin before picking her to join the Republican ticket, we've taken it upon ourselves to compile some important -- and terrifying ...
Power Line: Another good night
Let me offer a few thoughts to supplement John’s fine live-blog of tonight’s events. Traditionally, the vice presidential candidate’s speech to the convention is devoted to attacking the other pa...
So much for the redneck beauty queen mayor of a pissant town (Wizbang)
Sarah Palin is about half way through her speech and so far she is killing. This woman has all her teeth, she can speak in complete sentences, and she has yet to cry. Those on the left must be so d...
FactCheck.org: GOP Convention Spin
Joe Lieberman and his former Senate colleague Fred Thompson both made misleading claims about Obama in their prime time GOP convention speeches on Tuesday. We've heard two of them before – many times...
Bookworm Room » Obama — nothing but a useless symbol
The good thing about living in a liberal community is that you get to hear how ordinary people — not the pundit class and the media — think.  I blogged yesterday about one elderly woman’s absolu...
URGENT AGENDA: 9.03.08: LATEST DISGRACE
Another sickening example of what some people will say in politics. Tom Bevan, at Real Clear Politics, reports on an exchange on Larry King's show: ST. PAUL - On the heels of Robert Wexler and ...
American Thinker Blog: Obama's ignorance of the law
Barack Obama continues to embarrass himself with serious misreading of the law and the Constitution. But the media is not interested in pointing any of this out to voters, who are fed the line he is a ...
Obama Met With Fox News Executives - washingtonpost.com
During the sit-down in a Waldorf-Astoria hotel suite in Manhattan that included Rupert Murdoch, the network's owner, Obama expressed concern about the way Fox was covering him. "I just wanted to know i...
Mother-of-Three O'Donnell Worried About Palin's Neglected Kids | NewsBusters.org
In today's "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" moment, MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell, currently miles away from her three children that are all under the age of two, questioned whether or not Sarah Palin would be neg...
Power Line: The Fred and Joe show
The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza claims that Fred Thompson "stole the night" at the convention yesterday. He sees Joe Lieberman's speech as "solid" but weakly delivered. My view is that Thompso...
URGENT AGENDA: 9.03.08: TONIGHT
Normally, during conventions, we begin with a review of the previous night. No need to do that now. I mentioned last night that it was a successful session, excellent speeches, solid arguments. T...
FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right: The Essential Difference
Think of an American president being inaugurated. What image comes to mind? Almost certainly this one, eh? This picture embodies what is perhaps the essential difference between the qualifications for...
8 More Shocking Revelations About Sarah Palin | Election 2008 | AlterNet
Since the McCain campaign apparently didn't even bother Googling Sarah Palin before picking her to join the Republican ticket, we've taken it upon ourselves to compile some important -- and terrifying ...
If We Want Good Health Care from Obama, We Better Push Him to Change His Plan | Election 2008 | AlterNet
Barack Obama's health care plan coddles the corporations that profit from the misery and illnesses of tens of millions of Americans. The plan is naive, at best, and probably disingenuous when it insist...
Todd: It's Sarah Palin's party - Decision '08- msnbc.com
Will she be a shooting star who disappears from the Republican sky as fast as she appeared? Or will she burn brighter and brighter, to become the party’s sun. A tortured metaphor perhaps, but those t...
Stalling the Troopergate investigation? - First Read - msnbc.com
Recent Posts: GOP continues to charge sexism Obama blasts GOP for ignoring economy Here comes Rahm-bo Stalling the Troopergate investigation? Huck predicts boost from sexist coverage Archives: Septembe...
Crooks and Liars » And Banning Books Too?
Yes, according to the?Republican that Sarah Palin?beat to become mayor of Wasilla This comes from a TIME article filed from Wasilla, where journalists are busy doing the vetting that McCain left to a s...
Talking Points Memo | GOP: Battle Stations!
Apparently realizing that the Sarah Palin rollout is going badly, the GOP is holding a series of press conferences here in St. Paul to push back. Underway now is a presser with female GOP officials tal...
TPM: Founder Of Group Palin Courted Professed "Hatred For The American Government"; Cursed "Damn Flag"
The founder of the Alaska Independence Party -- a group that has been courted over the years by Sarah Palin, and one her husband was a member of for roughly seven years -- once professed his "hatred fo...
PALIN UNPATRIOTIC AND CLEARLY UNAMERICAN!!!: Todd Palin Was Registered Member of Alaska Independence Party Until 2002
The McCain camp today disputed rumors that presumptive vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin was ever registered with the secessionist Alaska Independence Party by releasing years of voter registration...
Why Isn't AIP Founder Sarah Palin's Reverend Wright?
Reverend Jeremiah Wright said this ...and this And Joe Vogler, the founder of the Alaskan Independence Party, said this Why isn't Vogler's quote just as controversial? Wright called America the "U.S. o...
McCain ad: Palin more qualified than Obama - Mike Allen - Politico.comMost Emailed News Stories
Mounting a ferocious defense of his embattled running mate, John McCain said he is buying a TV ad arguing that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has more experience than the Democratic presidential nominee, Bara...
Ben Smith's Blog: Bush's 2004 temple - Politico.com
August 27, 2008 Categories: Barack Obama Barack Obama's appearance in Denver won't be the first convention speech framed by Greek columns. Republicans who are mocking Obama's appearance haven't mention...
Why Obama Can't Close the Sale - WSJ.com
Even before John McCain shook up the presidential race by tapping Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate, polls weren't showing the late-August lead that Barack Obama (and many Republicans) expected. ...
A TIME-WARPED SEXIST ASSAULT - New York Post
Posted: 4:15 am September 3, 2008 HOLY hoop skirts: When did the clock tick back to 1958? When Joe Biden tragically lost his wife and infant daughter in a car wreck in 1972, not a single colleague, fri...
Top Ten Most Disturbing Facts and Impressions of Sarah Palin | Election 2008 | AlterNet
Sarah Palin was named John McCain's vice presidential nominee just three days ago, yet it seems that weeks have passed in terms of the mountains of controversy it has stirred up. An overwhelming amount...
Power Line: The Fred Factor
Fred Thompson's speech at the convention last night presented an interesting case for John McCain and critique of Barack Obama, who remained unmentioned by name. The case for Senator McCain constitute...
URGENT AGENDA: 9.03.08: WHY THEY HATE SARAH
The Wall Street Journal, which knows from media, gives an excellent analysis of why some in the media hate Sarah Palin. They don't hold anything back: Even as the Obama camp ponders how best to...
American Thinker: Sarah Palin and the Two Americas
Liberals have long lamented the existence of two nations in America. They are right to do so today, but in a way they never meant. It is not the divide between rich and poor which soon will be causing ...
The Beltway Boys - WSJ.com
Even as the Obama camp ponders how best to handle John McCain's veep pick of Sarah Palin, the high priests and priestesses of the media have marked her as an apostate. The Beltway class is in full-thro...
Truthdig - E.J. Dionne - McCain's Reckless Choice Says a Lot About Conservatives
By all rights, there should be a revolt at this week’s Republican convention against John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate—for the very same reasons so many Republicans oppos...
BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Vote USA 2008 | Convention speech: George W Bush
President George W Bush has addressed the Republican National Convention in St Paul, Minnesota, via video-link from the White House. Below is the text of his speech: Good evening. As you know, my duti...
Nader Takes on Gay Hispanic Male Running Mate
  The dance continues. Nader seeks a diverse and fierce ticket. In an election environment where diversity is playing a key role in attracting voters, perpetual presidential contender Ralph Nader said...
Sarah Palin makes Obama pregnant with insecurity; The Ryskind Sketchbook
...
Scenes from St. Paul -- Democracy Now's Amy Goodman arrested - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Following up on this weekend's extreme raids on various homes, at least 250 people were arrested here today in St. Paul, Minnesota. Beginning last night, St. Paul was the most militarized I have ever s...
IBDeditorials.com: Obama's Motion To Suppress
Free Speech: It appears Team Obama will stop at nothing to intimidate and harass those who would expose his long and cozy relationship with terrorist William Ayers. As in the '60s, lefties think freedo...
URGENT AGENDA: 9.02.08: NO SHAME
Consider this headline from a New York Times story yesterday: Palin’s Teen Daughter Is Pregnant; New G.O.P. Tumult. Now consider this from Byron York at NRO Online: As for now, at least, e...
URGENT AGENDA: 9.02.08: MEDIA DISGRACE
More on the obnoxious media assaults on Sarah Palin. ABC News reports that the supermarket tabloids are now joining the attack, with their usual vulgarity. Rick Klein writes: But this, to me, ...
Head for the High Road - Herbert - NYTimes.com
The Democrats need to be careful about the intensity of their criticism of Sarah Palin. She may look like an easy target, an appalling lightweight who will send serious voters scurrying to the more sub...
Palin's Small Alaska Town Secured Big Federal Funds - washingtonpost.com
There was $500,000 for a youth shelter, $1.9 million for a transportation hub, $900,000 for sewer repairs, and $15 million for a rail project -- all intended to benefit Palin's town, Wasilla, located a...
Palin's Church May Have Shaped Controversial Worldview - Palin Gets Wright Treatment
Speaking before the Pentecostal church, Palin painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord... The church runs a number of ministr...
OBAMA IS NOT ONLY THE CANDIDATE HE RUNS HIS CAMPAIGN says BHO
# Sept. 2, 2005: Obama holds press conference urging Illinoisans to contribute to the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. # Sept. 5, 2005: Obama goes to Houston to visit evacuees with Presidents Clinton ...
False notes for the Grand Old Party
False notes for the Grand Old Party By Muhammad Cohen HONG KONG - As much as Democrats fear losing yet another eminently winnable presidential election, Republicans are the ones running scared. Cho...
Collateral Damage: Palin Hits Family With Friendly Fire
The Internets are atwitter about McPalin and a lot of what’s passing for legitimate punditry is nasty, rude, brutish, and short - also known as politics as usual. But cheap or not, the McCainiacs bro...
PALIN VETTED BY 25 PERSON TEAM
By LIZ SIDOTI ? 15 hours ago ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Sarah Palin's path to the Republican ticket started with her name on a list — and a team of some 25 people poring through public reco...
PALIN GOT MORE MAYOR VOTES THAN BIDEN IN PRESIDENTIAL RUN
This page contains a single entry by Mark Bieganski published on September 1, 2008 1:11 PM Welcome to Minneapolis, Illinoisans was the previous entry in this blog. Youth voters want candidate interac...
Poll: Obama/Biden Take Eight-Point Lead, Democratic Ticket Gets Boost After Convention, CBS News Poll Finds - CBS News
Democratic nominee Barack Obama's lead over Republican John McCain has grown after the Democratic convention, which 71 percent of Americans say they watched. Obama and his running mate Joe Biden now le...
A Blogger, a Baby, a Cry of Concern
ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 1 -- When Markos Moulitsas saw that one of the contributors to his liberal blog was accusing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin of lying about her 4-month-old baby, he was a bit skeptical. ...
Press turns on McCain become cheerleaders for Obama
By Heidi Przybyla Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The longtime love affair between John McCain and what he once called his ``base'' -- the national news media -- is on the rocks. McCain's campaign manager...
Questions surround Palin's background check | Anchorage Daily News
Gov. Sarah Palin's reluctant announcement Monday that her unmarried, teenage daughter was within months of making her a grandmother at age 44 also turned a spotlight on Sen. John McCain, who would hav...
American Thinker: Sarah Palin and the narcissistic wounds of the Left
Former Democrat national chairman Don Fowler admitted to ABC News that he rejoiced at the prospect of Hurricane Gustav hitting New Orleans during the Republican National Convention. "The hurrica...
The Father of Bristol Palin’s Baby: “I Don’t Want Kids.”
Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin’s high school sweetheart, and father of her unborn baby may not be ready for fatherhood just yet. Bristol, the 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candid...
A New Twist in the Motherhood Debate - NYTimes.com
When Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska was introduced as a vice-presidential pick, she was presented as a magnet for female voters, the epitome of everymom appeal. But since then, as mothers across the countr...
Dutch intel: US to strike Iran in coming weeks | Jerusalem Post
The Dutch intelligence service, the AIVD, has called off an operation aimed at infiltrating and sabotaging Iran's weapons industry due to an assessment that a US attack on the Islamic Republic's nuclea...
Democracy Now! Host and Producers Arrested at Republican Convention | The Trail | washingtonpost.com
Democracy Now! radio host Amy Goodman and two producers were arrested while covering demonstrations at the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn. Goodman was released after being held for over three ...
Campaign Silo » America Last? Sarah Palin Once A Member of the Alaskan Independence Party
Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Palin was once so independent, she was once a member of their party, which, since the 1970s, has been pushing for a legal vote for Alaskans to decid...
Sarah Palin's Teenage Daughter Pregnant : People.com
LAST UPDATE: Thursday August 28, 2008 11:10PM EDT PEOPLE Top 5 are the most-viewed stories on the site over the past three days, updated every 60 minutes ...
Disclosures on Palin Raise Questions on Vetting Process - NYTimes.com
ST. PAUL — A series of disclosures about Gov. Sarah Palin , Senator John McCain ’s choice as running mate, called into question on Monday how thoroughly Mr. McCain had examined her background before...
Palin rebuts rumors, says daughter pregnant| Reuters
By Steve Holland ST. PAUL (Reuters) - The 17-year-old unmarried daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock dow...
Downgraded Hurricane Gustav Largely Misses City - NYTimes.com
This article is by Adam Nossiter Damien Cave Kareem Fahim and James Barron NEW ORLEANS — This nearly deserted city appeared to have escaped threats of full-scale devastation on Monday when Hurricane G...
Democracy Now! | Amy Goodman and Two Democracy Now! Producers Unlawfully Arrested At the RNC
Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was unlawfully arrested in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota. Democracy Now! is on over 700 stations. Police violently manhandled Goodman, yanking her arm, as they arrested ...
Sarah Palin vs. Barack Obama - Yahoo! News
Democrats, between sniggers of derision and snorts of disgust, contend that Sarah Palin John McCain 's vice-presidential pick is ridiculously unqualified to be president. It's a reasonable objection on...
Federal government involved in raids on protesters - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
As the police attacks on protesters in Minnesota continue -- see this video of the police swarming a bus transporting members of Earth Justice, seizing the bus and leaving the group members stranded on...
URGENT AGENDA: 9.01.08: HIM VS. HER
Gerard Baker of The Times of London is one of the most astute British observers of our political scene. Here he examines, with some glee, the contrast between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin. Obamans be...
Economic View - Is History Siding With Obama’s Economic Plan? - NYTimes.com
CLEARLY, there are major differences between the economic policies of Senators Barack Obama and John McCain . Mr. McCain wants more tax cuts for the rich; Mr. Obama wants tax cuts for the poor and midd...
Daily Kos: BabyGate: Explosive New Details [Photos+Video]
The revelation that had been whispered among the Alaskan legislature was explosive. Sarah Palin is not the mother of Trig Palin. Her daughter is the mother. Scarce if any refutations to the contrary ha...
America's Weakness Brings Silent Glee to China: From Die Zeit
Die Zeit, Germany America's Weakness Brings Silent Glee to China "Many will benefit from America's disaster in Iraq, but not the West nor the cause of human rights and democracy. One regional ben...
MSNBC Shows there tolerance: SMEAR Palin from the beginning
From the very first moment that John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin for his Republican running mate was announced, the MSNBC news network was engaged in a deliberate attempt to smear the Alaska gove...
DEM CONVENTION BOUNCE GONE: Obama 49 McCain 48
ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) — On the eve of the Republican convention, a new national poll suggests the race for the White House remains dead even. A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Sunday nig...
Liberty Alert: Book Review: Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Islam is an ingeniously crafted farce, meant to perpetuate a system where women are objects to serve men....
VILE ATTACK DOGS OF THE LEFT UNLEASH THEIR BILE
Left wing haters attack Sarah Palins 17 year old daughter. How much lower can the haters go. Stay tuned...the leftwing attack dogs have just started to redefine tolerance and diversity....
Sarah Palin: conservatives find the girl of their dreams - Times Online
When Sarah Palin stepped into the spotlight as John McCain?s running mate in Dayton, Ohio, and promised that women could ?shatter that glass ceiling once and for all?, it was an electrifying mome...
DEMS RISK SEXISM BACKLASH;Their attacks will backlash
September 01, 2008 Categories: Veep First lady Laura Bush said today that sexism aimed at Sarah Palin was a very?real prospect and suggested Democrats watch what they say about the Alaska governor and ...
American Thinker: A 2008 Voter's Guide
How do the Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates compare? Here is a brief synopsis of each, in a few different categories. Age on Jan. 20, 2009 Obama. 47. Biden. 66. McCain. 72....
The Fighter Pilot and the Moose Hunter by Lisa Schiffren, City Journal 31 August 2008
By putting the relatively unknown governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, on his presidential ticket, John McCain has demonstrated that rarest of all political qualities: willingness to take a real risk on a ...
Things That Make You Hate All Democrats | Sweetness & Light
From Andrew Sullivan at the Atlantic Monthly We didn’t want to post this. It is simply too despicable for words. Mind you, the Democrats are forever claiming that the Republicans are character assass...
American Thinker: Why Palin Is a Bee in Dems' Bonnets
If you've ever seen a lady with a bee in her bonnet, and all the crazy contortions she'll make to get the darned thing out before it stings her lovely head, you'll understand precisely why the Democrat...
Republicans praise Sarah Palin on Sunday talk shows - Los Angeles Times
GOP politicians hit the airwaves to laud the 'bold choice' by McCain, who calls Palin 'soul mate.' Democratic Sen. John Kerry, however, says Palin 'does not meet the national security threshold.' Re...
www.kansascity.com | 08/31/2008 | Unions look to federal proposal as giving employees freedom of choice
Last December, a majority of the dealers at Argosy Casino Hotel & Spa signed cards stating they wanted an election on whether a union should represent them.

When the election was held six wee...

URGENT AGENDA: 09.01.08: THE QUEEN IS DISPLEASED
Hillary Rodham Clinton, of late the presumed Democratic nominee for president, is apparently displeased by the emergence of Sarah Palin. Of course she is. She might have to run against her someda...
URGENT AGENDA: 09.01.08: THE GAME CHANGER
I've never seen a vice-presidential choice change a race the way Sarah Palin has changed this one. The polls, as we've reported here, just stopped in place. The Obama bounce turned into the Obama dis...
URGENT AGENDA: 8.31.08: DUMMIES WE
DUMMIES WE Posted at 2:37 pm. ET Dean Barnett has an excellent piece in The Weekly Standard, examining how the Democrats are likely to assault Sarah Palin.? Very perceptive, I think: And... That is cor...
Sarah Palin: The Angelina Jolie of the GOP?
Bloggers are now comparing Republican Sarah Palin to Actress Angelina Jolie, both in looks and in ideology. Jolie's father is a rightwing libertarian. Jolie was quoted two weeks ago, saying that she'...
URGENT AGENDA: 8.31.08: PALIN POWER
We're back now after visiting West Point for the season-closing concert of the U.S. Military Academy Concert Band, and the Jazz Knights. You haven't lived until you've heard the Concert Band play the ...
Gaia Sends Hurricane to Punish Republicans
  Gaia Orders Hurricane Gustav to interrupt GOP convention. Gaia, a jealous and wrathful deity, has sent Hurricane Gustav to damper the spirits of Republicans gathered at their convention, a group o...
Storm Politics Present Risk and Rewards
ST. PAUL — On the day Hurricane Katrina made landfall three years ago, President Bush helped Senator John McCain celebrate his birthday with a cake that melted on a blazing hot airport tarmac, just as...
Talking Points Memo | Getting Real About Palin
I've noticed some people who should know better claiming that bringing up Gov. Palin's troopergate scandal is tantamount to making a victim of or defending her slimeball ex-brother-in-law who allegedly...
'Days of the Awakening Councils are Numbered': From Iraq's Azzaman
President Bush meets with Sunni Muslim Sheik Sattar Abu Reesha who fought al-Qaeda in Anbar province, during a visit there on Sept. 3, 2007. Abu Reesha was gunned down a few weeks later. Is the U...
Focused--The Sequel - Swampland - TIME
Another week, another Frank Luntz/AARP focus group of undecided voters--this one in Minneapolis and with some bad news for John McCain: they don't like the choice of Sarah Palin for vice president....
McCain Camp Didn't Search Palin's Hometown Paper Archives
The McCain campaign has gone to great lengths to present the selection of Sarah Palin as one made after a careful, meticulous vetting process. But evidence continues to suggest that the Arizona Republi...
Bush, McCain and the GOP try to dodge Katrina 2.0 | Salon News
Sept. 1, 2008 | ST. PAUL, Minn. -- John McCain may not be George Bush's twin on everything, but when it comes to hurricanes, the rivals turned friends are inextricably linked. Three years ago this w...
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
? McCain's Real Veep Main Amazing ? 31 Aug 2008 01:21 pm Among the tiny number of occasions on which Sarah Palin has expressed even an opinion on foreign policy, one of the most recent bears putting ou...
Greg Mitchell: Cindy McCain on ABC Today: Palin Has National Security Experience Because Alaska Is Close To Russia
When a Fox News morning host, Steve Doocy, testified to Sarah Palin's national security experience on Friday by saying that her state, Alaska, was so close to Russia, it drew hoots across the media and...
Pam's House Blend: Palin's a "soul mate" for McCain
Boy, I hate it when my jokes cut too close to the truth: I joked on my show that McCain must think he's Hugh Hefner on "The Girls Next Door" -- his first wife was a beauty queen, his former mistress / ...
Anchorage Daily News: Palin touts stance on 'Bridge to Nowhere,' doesn't note flip-flop
When John McCain introduced Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate Friday, her reputation as a tough-minded budget-cutter was front and center. "I told Congress, thanks but no thanks on that bridge to no...
The Associated Press: Global warming's toasty water connection to Gustav
Global warming has probably made Hurricane Gustav a bit stronger and wetter, some top scientists said Sunday, but the specific connection between climate change and stronger hurricanes remains an issue...
Comcast to Place a Cap on Internet Downloads - NYTimes.com
Comcast, one of the country’s largest Internet providers, said this week that it would place limits on customers’ broadband usage. Beginning Oct. 1, Comcast will put a 250 gigabyte-a-month cap on r...
Bloomberg.com: U.S. Refineries Shut, Slow Operations as Hurricane Gustav Nears
Refineries operated by Valero Energy Corp. ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil Corp. are closing as Hurricane Gustav nears the U.S. Gulf Coast, where about 41 percent of U.S. refining capacity is located. A...
Theuptake - Police Detain Journalists
Saint Paul, MN Police Department raids a home at 951 Iglehart Avenue at gunpoint. The journalists include a contributing photojournalist with "Democracy Now", whose host Amy Goodman appears in this cli...
Police raids enrage activists, alarm others
"This is not the way to start things off," St. Paul City Council Member Dave Thune said Saturday morning. "This is sending the wrong message. Regardless of how you feel about these people ... they had ...
MnIndy Video: Inside convergence space, activists describe pre-RNC police raids
The RNC Welcoming Committee invited the media to tour the convergence space that was raided Friday night by the Ramsey County Sheriff’s office. Several activists described their experiences during th...
Police break down doors in night-time raid on anarchist meeting - Twin Cities Daily Planet
“I heard somebody saying, ‘They’re coming, they’re coming!’ And feet pounding on the back stairs, pounding on the door saying they had a search warrant. They busted through the door. They’v...
Talking Points Memo | The Big Picture
I've written below how Sarah Palin not only lacks the experience to be president but also the judgment and temperament for the job. Far more damaging for McCain, however, is that his choice of Palin pr...
kare11.com | Twin Cities, MN | McCain orders convention changes because of storm
John McCain ordered changes in the Republican National Convention that was to be a four-day celebration of his presidential nomination Sunday, to "redirect our efforts" to reflect the seriousness of Hu...
Russia threatens to supply Iran with top new missile system as 'cold war' escalates - Telegraph
US intelligence fears the Kremlin will supply the sophisticated S-300 system to Tehran if Washington pushes through Nato membership for its pro-Western neighbours Georgia and Ukraine. The p...
URGENT AGENDA: 8.31.08: THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN
THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN Posted at 8:47 a.m. ET "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain."? Wasn't that the line from "The Wizard of Oz?" Apparently, the Obama campaign has learned it well.? ...
News from Jerusalem - The Reality of a Palestinian State
Dean Acheson, the American statesman and President Truman’s Secretary of State, was quoted as saying: “No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making...
Dutch Spies Quit Iran Due to 'Imminent U.S. Attack': From De Telegraaf of The Netherlands
Dutch claim U.S. plans an attack using unmanned aerial vehicles to destroy Iran's nuclear capability 'within weeks.' De Telagraaf, The Netherlands Dutch Spies Quit Iran Due to 'Imminent U.S. Attack' "...
CLASSLESS Dem says: Hurricane is God's Favor to Democrats
UPDATE (see below for SC GOP Statement) On a plane from Denver to Charlotte following the Democrats' convention, I found myself seated behind former National Chairman of the Democratic National C...
Anarchists stopped before they can commit crimes at Republican Convention
Police in Minnesota raided a building in St. Paul and several homes in Minneapolis last night, confiscating materials believed to be stockpiled for protests, vandalism and riots by an anarchist group c...
Iran warns any attack would start 'world war'
"Any aggression against Iran will start a world war," deputy chief of staff for defence publicity, Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, said in a statement carried by the agency. Iran is under internatio...
Palin Destroys Dems Convention bounce
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday—the day before the Republican National Convention is scheduled to begin—shows Barack Obama ahead of John McCain by three percentage...
Report: Israel won't allow a nuclear Iran | Iran news | Jerusalem Post
Israel will not allow Iran to attain nuclear capability and if time begins to run out, Jerusalem will not hesitate to take whatever means necessary to prevent Iran from achieving its nuclear goals, the...
Zogby International: Palin Pick stunts Dem's convention bounce.
8/30/2008 Brash McCain pick of AK Gov. Palin neutralizes historic Obama speech, stunts the Dems' convention bounce UTICA, New York - Republican John McCain's surprise announcement Friday of Alaska Gov....
Preachers of separatism at work inside Britain's mosques - Telegraph
In a large balcony above the beautiful main hall at Regent's Park Mosque in London - widely considered the most important mosque in Britain - I am filming undercover as the woman preacher g...
SAS kill hundreds of terrorists in 'secret war' against al-Qaeda in Iraq - Telegraph
More than 3,500 insurgents have been "taken off the streets of Baghdad" by the elite British force in a series of audacious "Black Ops" over the past two years. It is understood that while ...
Sarah Palin poses 'Troopergate' risk to John McCain's US election bid - Telegraph
He is also gambling that an ethics investigation into the Alaska governor does not blow up in her face when the Democrat leading the inquiry delivers his report on Oct 31 - just five days before the el...
Convention diary: Barack Obama's Messiah complex and other tricky questions - Telegraph
Dismayed by Obama's wishy washy answer at a faith forum, in which he dodged a question on abortion as "above my pay grade", hinting that it was a matter for the almighty, the Dem doubter sa...
American Thinker Blog: Media's full court press against Palin
The political flamethrowers have been unleashed on Governor Sarah Palin. The media is not just trying to attack her on experience grounds (she has a far more successful record of accomplishment than...
Revealed: Saudi women preaching hate in the British mosque that promised to clean up its act 18 months ago | Mail Online
By Tom Harper Last updated at 11:41 PM on 30th August 2008 Comments ( 23 Add to My Stories Hardline female ‘preachers of hate’ are radicalising Muslim women at one of Britain’s top mosques. The S...
American Thinker: Sarah Works
The selection of Sarah Palin works, on many levels and in many ways. McCain knew what he was doing when he picked her. Consider all the ways in which Palin helps the Republican ticket. Women voters...
Power Line: A Party Organ Shifts Into High Gear
The Washington Post (editorial page excepted) has been leading the cheers for Barack Obama for some time. The Post outdid itself on Friday morning. Here are the headlines it ran for the four stories th...
Pro-Hillary Blog On Palin (Wizbang)
Avowed pro-Hillary blogger, and former CIA operative, Larry Johnson, on Governor Sarah Palin: The more I learn about Palin the more I like her. She may be far more conservative than me on so...
American Thinker: The Politics of Hurricane Gustav
Remember the good ol' days back when hurricanes were weather events and not political happenings? That would be defined as pre-Andrew 1992. Andrew slammed into South Florida and displaced a lot of f...
American Thinker: Free Gorki Aguila!
Sometimes movements are launched from the unlikeliest of sources. They might begin when a tired seamstress refuses to give up her seat on an Alabama bus or when a simple Polish shipyard worker organize...
Sunday Matinee: National Geographic documentary; The Miracle of life; The Ryskind Sketchbook
The question of when a human receives its soul is a religious question. The question of when a human baby should get basic human rights is a political question. The question of when human life begins i...
American Thinker: McCain and the OODA Loop
By Charlie Martin Man, is this guy a fighter pilot, or what? There are two military concepts here that explain the (absolutely spectacular) choice of Governor Sarah Palin. Both of them are importa...
URGENT AGENDA: 8.30.08: THE OTHER WOMAN
Clinton's reaction was congratulatory - if perfunctory. "We should all be proud of Governor Sarah Palin's historic nomination, and I congratulate her and Senator McCain," she said in a statement. "Whil...
URGENT AGENDA: 8.30.08: THE EXPERIENCE FACTOR
THE EXPERIENCE FACTOR Posted at 6:45 p.m. ET The "experience" factor has come to the fore again with John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin to be his running mate.? There is anguish.? There is regret.?...
Daily Kos: Sunday Talk - A Heartbeat Away
McSame has made his choice. There are certainly more qualified republican women that McSame passed over. It's gotta sting that McCain passed over Romney and others for someone with a resume like this...
Pat Buchanan on Women, Homosexuality and a Christian America
2007: "The rise of women to power in a civilization is very often the mark of its decline." 2002: ?In short, the rise of feminism spells the death of the nation and end of the West.? 2002: "What is g...
TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Palin Ad Starring Ted Stevens Already Scrubbed From Palin's Campaign Website
That was quick. This morning, an ad from Sarah Palin's 2006 gubernatorial campaign featuring an endorsement from scandal-plagued Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was available on Palin's campaign Web site. W...
The Hope And Change That Governor Sarah Palin Brings | Political Vindication
So the fight card is set.  The cherubic Barack Obama and his lyre Joe Biden levitate in one corner, the warrior John McCain and his velvet glove Sarah Palin in the other.  Did the Palin pick change e...
Pakistani lawmaker defends honor killings - Pakistan - msnbc.com
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A Pakistani lawmaker defended a decision by southwestern tribesmen to bury five women alive because they wanted to choose their own husbands, telling stunned members of Parliament...
YouTube - "Troops Have Been Deployed in Iran. The War With Iran Has Begun" - Col. Sam Gardiner- US Airforce
... ...
YouTube - U.S. Marines/Iraq War Veterans Cornered & Threatened By Gestapo Storm Troopers at DNC
DNC- Iraq War Veterans March & Speak Truth About the War as Cops at the DNC surround and threaten to gas and shoot them. ...
Commentary: Is McCain out of his mind? - CNN.com
John McCain needs what Kinky Friedman calls "a checkup from the neck up." In choosing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate, he is not thinking "outside the box," as some have said. More like ...
Palin: Hillary Clinton's "Whining" Turned Me Off
When Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin arrived backstage for our NEWSWEEK Women & Leadership Event in Los Angeles last March, John McCain had just wrapped up the GOP nomination. Palin had yet to endorse McCain--...
American Thinker Blog: Class vs no class
Last night, John McCain put on ads congratulating Barack Obama for his achievement. The day Joe Biden was picked, John McCain called him to congratulate him. That is class. Tom Bevan of realclearpol...
American Thinker: Obama, the Showman-in-Chief
Appearances are at the center of Barack Obama's career. Those who believe he has never accomplished anything overlook his chosen career as a political impresario, a master of creating illusions that da...
URGENT AGENDA: 8.30.08: EYES AND EARS OF THEMSELVES
EYES AND EARS OF THEMSELVES Journalists love to boast that they're the "eyes and ears" of the public.? They are not, as I found out in my years in the business.? They are the eyes and ears of themselve...
Power Line: Obama's Bounce
?? ?John Hinderaker ??Scott Johnson ??Paul Mirengoff ?? ?? Click an option above to increase/decrease Power Line's font size. John Hinderaker Scott Johnson Paul Mirengoff Monthl...
FactCheck.org: Fact Checking Obama
"He stuck to the facts, except when he stretched them." A FactCheck analysis of Senator Obama's acceptance speech....
RedPlanet Cartoons; Just Say NO
The Democrats have titled their party platform, “Renewing America’s Promise.” A more honest and accurate title would be, “We’ll Give You More.” The soul of the Democratic philosophy is summ...
Power Line: The Bright Side
Paul and I have already voiced our concerns about John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin for Vice-President. Now it's time to look at the upside. In fact, there is a lot to like about Palin. To begi...
American Thinker: Defending Against the First Attacks on Sarah Palin
As John McCain has shocked pretty much everybody with his pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, it's important to prepare for the attacks on her that will be launched, starting this ...
URGENT AGENDA: 8.29.08: NOT SMART
The Obama campaign's first reaction to Sarah Palin reveals an absence of thought, to put it mildly: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign on Friday blasted his Republican riv...
URGENT AGENDA: 8.29.08: BARACK WHO?
Do you remember Barack Obama? You know, from last night? B.S? (That means, before Sarah.) He's out there, and, as often happens, it's the British press that has the sharpest comments on him. For e...
MTV Newsroom - Sarah Palin, Republican Vice-Presidential Nominee, Plugs Romney, Paul But Not McCain In MTV Interview
Back in February, on Super Tuesday, MTV News Street Teamer Dani Carlson did a Flixwagon interview with Alaska Governor — and now presumptive Republican vice-presidential candidate — Sarah Palin, wh...
'The Day Democrats Finally Grew Teeth': From Nachrichten of Switzerland
Hoje Macau, Macau] Nachrichten, Switzerland The Day the Democrats Finally Grew Teeth "It looks as though the Democrats have finally grown some teeth. It remains to be seen if they can be relied u...
Is Palin Lying About Her Child?
for her teenage daughter, who definitely looks pregnant in the family picture. First of all, if like me, you barely show with the first pregnancy in your early twenties, (or teens) by the third, fourth...
Sarah Palin and Creationism
Zombie: 9/11 Truth March at the Democratic National Convention On the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, a “truther” organization called We Are Change sponsored the “9/11...
Disease Center: New Jersey's Bad Manners Spread Westward
Like a toxic middle finger… New Jersey’s manners poke into PA. Officials from the U.S. Center for Disease Control has determined that an outbreak of New Jersey bad manners, also called flippin’ b...
'Obama-Biden vs. Osama bin Laden': El Tiempo of Colombia
[The Korea Times, South Korea] El Tiempo, Colombia Obama-Biden vs. Osama bin Laden "Osama bin Laden has never lived in the Americas, but thanks to the slaughter he directed on September 11, ...
Daily Kos: Conservatives React to Palin
We're looking at a full-blown meltdown. Let's kick things off with Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review: "She Just Is Not Ready to Be Commander-in-Chief" [said] Pat Buchanan on MSNBC just now, about...
Not Ready for Gustav - Editorial - NYTimes.com
Three years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, residents there are nervously watching the progress of Tropical Storm-threatening-to-be-Hurricane Gustav. No less nerve-wracking is the kn...
Feeling No Pain - Krugman - NYTimes.com
The census report gives a snapshot of the economic status of American families in 2007 that is, before the financial crisis started dragging the economy down and the unemployment rate up. It's a given ...
Analysis: McCain gambles with surprise pick - USATODAY.com
Sarah Palin, the first-term governor of Alaska, has no experience in Washington and is unknown in national politics. She will be the least experienced candidate for national office nominated by a major...
Palin dissed veep job - Mike Allen - Politico.com
If Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin got the job as running mate for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) , count her as one of the most surprised. In an interview just a month ago, she dissed the job, saying it didn?t se...
Op-Ed Contributor - Robert A. Caro - Op-Ed Contributor - Lyndon Johnson�s Dream, Obama�s Speech - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
AS I watch Barack Obama’s speech to the Democratic convention tonight, I will be remembering another speech: the one that made Martin Luther King cry. And I will be thinking: Mr. Obama’s speech — ...
McCain goes with a young woman!
(CNN) -- Sen. John McCain has picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, a senior McCain campaign official told CNN on Friday. Palin, 44, who's in her first term as governor, is a pioneering f...
Red_State_Blue:
...the nature and extent of Sen Obama’s left-wing agenda doesn’t seem to have penetrated into the awareness of the American public...They just don’t associate him, the “Progressive” movement ...
RedPlanetCartoons » Back to Normal in Beijing
BEIJING — For a few brief moments, it was as if a curtain had parted. We had one of China’s young — perhaps too young — Olympic gymnasts alone. Yang Yilin, through no fault of her own, has been...
Plagiarist Biden vindicated: The Ryskind Sketchbook
Plagiarist Biden vindicated: Turns out phrase, “Joe Biden is an expert” did originate with him....
Power Line: Was It Effective Demagoguery, Or Ineffective?
Fireworks! The perfect end to an evening of BS slinging of historic proportions. Barack Obama is a demagogue who will stoop to any lie or distortion; the question is how many people he can fool. On ...
Charles Krauthammer - The Perfect Stranger - washingtonpost.com
Nothing wrong or even terribly odd about that, except that he is laying claim to the job of crafting the coming history of the United States. A leap of such audacity is odd. The air of unease at the De...
URGENT AGENDA: 8.29.08: NAILING IT
NAILING IT Posted at 8:43 a.m. ET Charles Krauthammer, among the American commentators, has probably done the best job of nailing Obama's speech.? His critique is devastating and brilliant.? But, alas,...
URGENT AGENDA: 8.29.08: LAST NIGHT AMONG THE FAITHFUL
LAST NIGHT AMONG THE FAITHFUL Is it over?? Can we go out and play again? The Democrats are leaving Denver after what, thanks to the political shrewdness of the Clintons, was a successful convention.? H...
Obama Talks of Mixed Parentage, Admits Zeus Was His Father
Obama tells those gathered in the Barackopolis: Gods bless America.   Barack Obama, Democratic presidential contender and integral part of the mythic Greek pantheon, disclosed the true nature of his b...
ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors
Lawyers for an ABC reporter and civil rights groups are demanding that Denver police drop all charges against a reporter who was arrested yesterday while trying to shoot video on a public sidewalk outs...
ABC News: ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors
DENVER -- Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic senators and VIP donors leaving a private meet...
The Raw Story | Halliburton sued for human trafficking
Thirteen Nepali men were recruited and held against their will for thirteen months in a human trafficking scheme engineered and perpetrated by Halliburton and its Jordanian contractor, according to a l...
Ron Paul: Obama and McCain have the same foreign policy!
youtube.com — Ron Paul appears on CNN's American Morning and points out the lies we are being told about economics and foreign policy. ...
Audience reverent, then roaring as Obama speaks - Reuters
As Barack Obama spoke on Thursday night to a packed football stadium in Denver, the audience of some 75,000 people alternated between reverent silence and a roaring approval that shook the stands. The ...
TV Barn | More DNC coverage that cable news was too busy to carry
Of course I'm partisan to Brian Schweitzer ... he's a native Montanan, like I am. Also, John Bohlinger, whom I've known since childhood, is his (Republican) lieutenant governor. But that's not really t...
Tim Pawlenty is McCain's VP choice: Big Boost for Libertarian Bob Barr
McCain chooses a boring social conservative from the Mid-West as his VP. The move guarantees a big boost for Libertarian Presidential candidate Bob Barr, among limited government Conservatives. ...
ObamaTaxCut.com
Barack Obama will cut taxes for over 95% of American families. (even though more than half of American think he'll raise their taxes) What's your Obama Tax cut? Let's find out! 1. What's your family...
Law Blog - WSJ.com : Fraudulent Male Enhancement Drug Gets Company Founder 25 Yrs.
In Cincinnati, the marketing of a male sexual enhancement product called Enzyte, which reportedly used ads featuring “Smiling Bob,” a happy man with an exaggerated smile, has led to a whopping jail...
MSNBC Anchors' Fights Go Live - WSJ.com
Since the start of the Democratic National Convention, ratings have exploded for the cable news channel MSNBC. So have tensions among the network's top anchors. The convention was supposed to be the ne...
The Legacy of Senator McComplain - The Moderate Voice
This post is one of the few times where I choose to stand on top of my soapbox and let out my frustration with the political universe. What has happened to John McCain? I have fond memories of the pri...
Gallup Daily: Obama Moves Ahead, 48% to 42%
Democratic candidate Barack Obama has gained ground in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking average from Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and now leads Republican John McCain among registered voters by...
McCain's Prickly TIME Interview - TIME
For years, John McCain's marathon bull sessions with reporters were more than a means of delivering a message; they were the message. McCain proudly, flagrantly refused direction from handlers, rarely ...
The Raw Story | 'Time delay inside John McCain's brain,' Dean mocks
When Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean appeared from Denver on Wednesday's Daily Show to announce that the Democratic convention "is going great," he seemed to be caught off guard by s...
What's missing from the Democratic convention? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
As one would expect them to be, virtually all of the prime-time speeches at the Democratic Convention have been -- from a rhetorical perspective -- very well-crafted and well-delivered. Bill Clinton's ...
McCain rally tickets still available
DAYTON ? Tickets are still available for Sen. John McCain's Friday, Aug. 29, rally at Wright State University's Nutter Center in Fairborn. McCain and his wife Cindy will appear at the event, dubbed the...
George Bush standing in front of Greek columns on the 2004 GOP convention stage - Democratic Underground
Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, vis...
URGENT AGENDA: 8.28.08: A CHILLING EFFECT
A CHILLING EFFECT Posted at 7:06 a.m. ET The Los Angeles Times reports on an outrageous attempt by the Obama campaign to stifle basic American freedoms.? There have been several stories like this, and ...
URGENT AGENDA: 8.28.08: UNKIND ASSESSMENT
You heard it here first: The Democratic Convention in Denver will go down as a disaster the likes of which have not been seen since Patrick Buchanan's 1992 speech to Republicans in Houston. It's hard t...
URGENT AGENDA: 8.28.08: LAST NIGHT IN DENVER
The Democrats had a good night last night. John Kerry spoke and no one listened, which is good news for the Dems. Bill Clinton gave a solid political speech that inspired the hall, if not the audienc...
How Big of a Deal Is Income Inequality? A Guest Post - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
Retired neurologist William Bernstein is probably known for his investment books The Intelligent Asset Allocator and The Four Pillars of Investing . His two latest books, A Splendid Exchange: How Trade...
Power Line: Listen while you can
Stanley Kurtz is the academically minded senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center who has doggedly investigated the Chicago years of Barack Obama. Most recently, Kurtz has been seeking to r...
America's Rare Spirit of 'Courageous Intrusion': From Al Seyassah of Kuwait
America: Sacrificing more for others that any nation in history. Al Seyassah, Kuwait America's Rare Spirit of 'Courageous Intrusion' "America's great generosity and sacrifice, both in money an...
Ron Paul's "Campaign for Liberty" is all over Minneapolis
Texas Congressman Ron Paul, a former presidential contender for the Republican Party, is busy organizing the " Campaign for Liberty ," a new movement to build on what was popularly called the "Ron Paul...
Uhm, Bob Barr only presidential candidate on Texas ballot?
The Democrats and Republicans have missed the filing deadline for getting on the ballot in Texas. Here's a Bob Barr press release: Bob Barr is slated to be the only presidential candidate on the ballot...
Daily Show: Has Michelle Obama sufficiently proven her patriotism?
Daily Show: Has Michelle Obama sufficiently proven her patriotism?...
Liberty Alert: Ever Wonder Where Your Local Property Taxes Go?
A town group has developed an online calculator to see where your property tax money goes....
'Our Future, Too, Is Partially In the Balance in Denver': From L'Express of France
L’Express, France 'Our Future, Too, Is Partially In the Balance in Denver' "When I see a candidate who is on the cutting edge of environmental issues, the defense of the middle class, the inter...
TPM Election Central - Howard Wolfson Goes To War With MSNBC, Hammers Chris Matthews And Keith Olbermann
On Fox News just now, Howard Wolfson unleashed a broad attack on MSNBC and its top on-air personalities, slamming the network's coverage of Bill and Hillary, hitting back at Chris Matthews and Keith Ol...
Hurricane Gustav Expected To Hit Gulf Over Weekend And New Orleans Next Week – Oil Futures Up | Best Syndication
(Best Syndication News) Although Gustav slowed slightly from hurricane strength, it is expected to enter the Gulf of Mexico and gain strength following the same path as Hurricane Katrina three years ag...
When is a plot not a plot? - Salon News
A group of armed "meth heads" reportedly discussed shooting Barack Obama, but the feds opted for lesser charges... That might have been the end of the episode, and it might just have been unusually dra...
AT&T thanks the Blue Dog Democrats with a lavish party - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Last night in Denver, at the Mile High Station... AT&T threw a lavish, private party for Blue Dog House Democrats, virtually all of whom blindly support whatever legislation the telecom industry demand...
Think Progress - McCain's Tax Cuts Are Aimed At The Rich 'Even More So Than Bush’s Were'
In 2001 and 2003, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) opposed President Bush’s tax cuts, arguing that he couldn’t “in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortuna...
Wonk Room: McCain and Scheunemann's Iran Connection
In the wake of John McCain’s latest tacit admission that he’s got nothing to offer Americans other than fear itsel