The Republican bloodbath begins. Victim number 1: Sara Palin. Articles have been popping up today hinting at more dissent between Palin and the McCain campaign than was previously disclosed. According to The Guardian, McCain had joked with friends that Palin was “more trouble than a pittbull” and other articles are calling her VP candidacy a [...]
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Timetables are bad, right? That’s been the conservative line for years now. Forcing the troops out of Iraq could lead to disastrous consequences, including emboldening our enemies, disheartening the soldiers, and making Americans look like pansies. Yet the Iraqis have spoken up again and the message is “we don’t want you occupying our country.” Is [...]
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In a series of mass protests today, thousands of Iraqi citizens marched on Baghdad to protest an imminent U.S. Iraqi security pact that would ensure a prolonged U.S. presence in the country. Considering the war is costing the U.S. billions of dollars a month when were already plagued by debt, you have to ask yourself, [...]
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According to reporters from MSNBC and the AP, requests for state e-mails from the Alaska Governor’s office have been eliciting some unusually high price-tags: The office of the Republican vice-presidential nominee has quoted prices as high as $15 million for copies of state e-mails requested by news organizations and citizens. No matter what the price, [...]
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One of the issues many people have with Sarah Palin is whether she would be able to handle the White House if something happened to John McCain. After all, before she was nominated for the VP slot, she was a relative unknown. I’m not going to go into all the details of my opinions on [...]
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Bush Administration Officials knew of the CIA’s waterboarding tactics and gave nods of approval to the techniques, reports from the Washington Post and the AFP confirmed today. Though it’s not making front page headlines at the moment, the story holds some weight for McCain and his campaign. The issue, if brought up during the debate, [...]
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“Withdrawal timetables.” The phrase is a faux pas in today’s War On Terror era politics, but the call for troop withdrawals is being discussed by more Democrats, these days. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki brought up the issue during a recent meeting with Arab ministers, in relation Iraq’s sovereignty. But is full Iraqi sovereignty really [...]
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The so-called theories of Einstein are merely the ravings of a mind polluted with liberal, democratic nonsense which is utterly unacceptable… – Dr. Walter Gross Think about it, then investigate further.
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Will high gas prices be the end of urban sprawl and the suburban way of life? America has always had room to grow, at least internally if not externally. Cities have grown taller and larger and sprouted up in places that were once considered wastelands (Las Vegas, anyone?). Yet now that gas prices are rising [...]
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Gay marriage – it’s back in the spotlight and bigger than ever now that California has legalized it. Shortly after the law was passed, happy couples across the state started tying the not in what was seen by many as a watershed moment for similar movements across the country. Even a few celebrities took advantage, [...]
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I was amused today when I saw an this headline on the MSNBC frontpage: “Does McCain face Bob Dole’s Fate? Aiming to Avoid the Dole-drums.” I guess I wasn’t the only person to notice the similarities. John McCain has long known what it’s like for a teleprompter-challenged Republican senator to go up against a charismatic, [...]
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The devastating floods in Iowa and the Midwest are being called ’500′ year floods. After all, the floods of 1993 were supposed to be century floods, the sort of freak events that happen only about every 100 years. They had to put the new event in context somehow. The Iowa City Gazette had this to [...]
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Many months passed while the struggle for the Democrat nomination held sway over the Media’s election coverage, casting a shadow over the true ideological battles to come. While commentators mulled black or white, man or women, the real issues sadly lay neglected: the sagging economy, fiscal accountability, the fundamentalist threats in the Middle East, and [...]
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The television industry had a big problem. Traditional broadcasters were switching over to digital broadcasts, but over 10 million Americans still had old, antenna based television sets. Without buying cable or updating their sets with digital television boxes, these consumers wouldn’t be able to enjoy their quality programming. What could be done? Big government to [...]
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As a follow up to the McCain-Dole piece I posted yesterday, here is an interesting quote from McCain that appeared in a recent Newsweek interview. Well, the strategy is the themes of reform, prosperity and peace, and I have the experience, background and a record and the kind of judgment to lead the country through [...]
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