The $700+ Billion Scam
The same people who brought you the housing market meltdown now want the American taxpayer to fund billions of dollars to bail out Wall Street firms because, apparently, if you do not your retirement...
View ArticleNot Now, I Am Right In The Middle Of A Rothschild!
When Senator Obama called John McCain this morning to discuss a joint statement on the economy, John McCain was not available. According to the McCain campaign, the Senator called Barack Obama back...
View ArticleThe Debate - My Two Cents
Obama wins the debate by denying McCain his only remaining talking point - that McCain is much stronger on foreign policy than Obama. Time and again McCain tried to say Obama did not understand foreign...
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A Very Wet Virginia For Obama
I just returned from the Barack Obama and Joe Biden rally at University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. I went equipped with a camera. I had hoped to have a lot of pictures of Obama and...
View ArticleThe Battleground: Polling Trends
Recent national and state polling shows that the election may be breaking in Barack Obama's direction. With the so-called Palin "bounce" behind us, and the economy front and center with just over a...
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Sarah Palin’s Israel Flag Tale Grows Taller
Today Sarah Palin gave a softball interview to Hugh Hewitt. It was part of the McCain campaign's reintroduction of Sarah Palin on friendlier turf. Most of the interview focused on the mean media's...
View ArticleWaPo: Palin Used Another Private Email To Communicate With Staff
The Washington Post is reporting tonight that Sarah Palin used another private email account to communicate with her staff and her husband:
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Chat With Sarah Palin Live!
I have come to think of Sarah Palin as an Eliza Program. An Eliza Program is a program that responds to your questions by rephrasing the question or with non-responsive answers that are close enough to...
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Sarah Palin Does Serious Damage
Joe Biden won the debate handily. Not surprisingly, Sarah Palin did not fall on her face. She used two tactics to avoid total collapse. These two tactics will do lasting damage to her and the...
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Calling All Virginians
The headline today on The Politico is "Virginia GOP fears McCain could lose the state". Let's make their fears a reality.
View ArticlePalin Pals Around With Murder Suspect, Thief, And Liar
On her recent trip to New York, Sarah Palin palled around with one of the world's most corrupt heads of state. She and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari shared some photo-op moments to burnish her...
View ArticleDebate Postscript: Obama Crushes McCain
Barack Obama devastated John McCain's hope for a game changer tonight. Obama won the debate handily.
View ArticleJohn McCain Needs To Put Country First
All presidential campaigns come to an end. So will this one. In most presidential campaigns, sometime in October the realization sinks in that victory may be out of reach. This week that realization...
View ArticleThere Will Be No Bradley Effect
With polls showing Barack Obama with a lead over John McCain both nationally and in battleground states, theconversation over the weekend turned to the reliability of these polls. With an African...
View ArticleDispatch from Virginia (Really)
Hello from Virginia. Yes, the "real" Virginia. To be sure, I drove to my local post office in Chantilly, Virginia to confirm that my mail would still get through if you added ",VA" behind the city name...
View ArticleMy Thanks To General Colin Powell
General Colin Powell - former Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, former National Security Advisor, former Secretary of State, and lifelong Republican - today endorsed Barack Obama on Meet The...
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Pollster: Virginia Blue
Take a look at the image above. Isn't it a beautiful sight? Take a look at Virginia. It is deep blue.
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Sarah Palin's $150,000: Opportunity Cost
The Politico reports that Republican donors are unhappy with Sarah Palin's outrageous shopping spree at their expense:
View ArticleMassive Hypocrisy: McCain Supported Obama's Tax Plan
[Via Jake Tapper]John McCain now calls Barack Obama a "socialist". Back in 2000, long before McCain gave up his honor for ambition, he defended middle class tax cuts against charges of "socialism".
View ArticleSarah Palin's Borrowed Clothes
It is a common trick corrupt politicians in the Third World use. Often they do not buy expensive big ticket items. They don't even accept them as gifts. It often happens that the car they are driving...
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A Word About Pennsylvania
I have been getting a lot of worried emails from Obama supporters about Pennsylvania. So, I figure it is worth posting about what might be happening in Pennsylvania and what we might expect on election...
View ArticleGreat News For John McCain!
John McCain has finally bagged the endorsement that will matter in this election.
View ArticleThe World Is Changed
The world is changed.I write tonight from the Old Dominion, not far from what was the capital of the Confederacy. I write tonight from a changed Virginia.
View ArticleCNN Does A Hit Job On Obama
I just watched a hit job on Barack Obama on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360. In their "Keeping Them Honest" segment Tom Foreman looked at Obama's press conference and said that Obama was pulling back on his...
View ArticleOur Next Attorney General On The Rule Of Law
Eric Holder, tapped to be the next Attorney General, spoke earlier this year at the American Constitution Society. The topic was the rule of law [click for video]. Holder spoke about reclaiming the...
View ArticleHillary Clinton At State: Toward A Weak Foreign Policy
It is now reported in the media as universal truth that Hillary Clinton is "on track" to be Barack Obama's Secretary of State. Apparently Clinton has made her anti-Shermanesque statement on the issue:...
View ArticleInterview With Mumbai Terrorist (Translated)
Indian news outlets have reported that one of the terrorists from Oberoi Hotel called into the India TV television station. He claimed to be from the Deccan Mujahideen and recited his demands. Earlier,...
View ArticleBarack Obama's Hawkish National Security Team
The Associated Press is reporting that Barack Obama will announce Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State this Monday. ABC News reports that the entire national security team will be announced...
View ArticleDaily Kos, General Jim Jones, Chevron and Burma
Last year, when the Burmese junta was killing its own people the community at Daily Kos stood with the Burmese people.We stood with Aung San Suu Kyi and rallied to her call: "Please use your liberty to...
View ArticleSteve Hildebrand And Progressive Criticism
Steve Hildebrand, the Obama campaign's steller field general, has a message for me and other like-minded progressives. The message is: "Hush".
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Pakistan: Terrorism As Military Doctrine
In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, earlier this week, the president of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari wrote an op-ed in The New York Times urging India and Pakistan to work together to battle...
View ArticleKennedy Derangement Syndrome
Caroline Kennedy, daughter of John F. Kennedy, is apparently interested in the New York Senate seat that will be vacated by Hillary Clinton. Good for her. I hope New Yorkers think it is good for them...
View ArticleA Small Measure Of Justice
The most anonymous victims of murder are the victims of genocide. We count the victims in numbers - one in a hundred thousand, one in eight hundred thousand, one in three million, or one in six...
View ArticleDemocracy Returns To Bangladesh
A Muslim majority country of over 150 million people just held a high-turnout peaceful democratic election. The secular Awami League won a landslide victory in Bangladesh's parliamentary elections and...
View ArticleEhud Olmert's Folly
Ehud Olmert has done it again. Two years after the fiasco in Lebanon, he has once again committed Israeli forces on a fool's errand. The target is different this time, but the one constant is the body...
View ArticleThe Children Of Gaza
The International Committee of the Red Cross has issued a written release demanding immediate access to Gaza after the discovery of weak children laying next to their dead mothers.
View ArticleBiko
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different...
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My Day At The Mall
Today was a beautiful day in Washington, DC. To be sure, it was bone chillingly cold, but it did not matter.
View ArticleA Disappointing Financial Stability “Plan”
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced the Obama administration's financial rescue plan yesterday. The Administration calls this the "Financial Stability Plan." The "Plan" has Paul Krugman confused....
View Article"In Our Time"
President Obama delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress tonight. It was a speech for our times.There is one sentence from this speech that may not get much press coverage. But it...
View ArticleBangladesh Bans YouTube
Bangladesh has blocked YouTube and some other file sharing websites after audio of a meeting between the Prime Minister and a large gathering of army senior officers was leaked and posted on YouTube....
View ArticleThe Taxpayer Gravy Train
Let me get straight to the point. If the Obama administration gives AIG the additional $30 billionthat it says it will, then it is the Obama administration that is using taxpayer money to pay hundreds...
View ArticleBarack Obama's Bonus "Outrage"
Barack Obama was outraged yesterday over the AIG bonuses. He was OUTRAGED. He saidyesterday: This is a corporation that finds itself in financial distress due to recklessness and greed.Under these...
View ArticleRobbing The Taxpayer
The United States government is colluding with the banks to rob the taxpayer. That, in a nutshell, is the newly shaped Tim Geithner bank rescue plan. That, in a nutshell, was the Hank Paulson bank...
View ArticleWall Street Hearts Geithner
After the Treasury Department released the refurbished plan to buy up "legacy assets" (formerly known by the less tasteful moniker "toxic assets") Wall Street responded with two thumbs up. Treasury...
View ArticleFor Trayvon Martin
This evening a six member jury in Florida found George Zimmerman not guilty in the murder of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin. Though a verdict was delivered I can't say justice was served.A teenager walking...
View ArticleWhy Hillary Clinton Lost My Vote
Hillary Clinton lost my vote in 2008. I think a person’s character comes into focus when under pressure. When Hillary was under pressure from Barack Obama during the primaries, she decided to throw...
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