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The Media Plan to Destroy Palin
→ Accuracy In Media | 8 Sep 2008 | 12:37 am MDT
If the McCain campaign decides to “Let Palin be Palin,” she should be able to handle the media sharks. It might even be amusing to see her put the liberal attack dogs in their place.
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Marching On Chavez
→ Accuracy In Media | 4 Sep 2008 | 5:57 pm MDT
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Churchill’s Ministry of Peace
→ Accuracy In Media | 4 Sep 2008 | 4:58 pm MDT
Ward Churchill, a former ethnic studies professor at the University of Colorado (UC), may have been fired after an investigation revealed his plagiarism and poor scholarship, but some anti-war outlets still court the controversial professor’s company.
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Selective Math at Census
→ Accuracy In Media | 3 Sep 2008 | 6:53 pm MDT
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AIM’s Kincaid: Trust Obama With State Secrets?
→ Accuracy In Media | 3 Sep 2008 | 4:23 pm MDT
In view of the media uproar over whether GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin was properly vetted, Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid has called on the media to investigate why Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama was given a high-level intelligence briefing on Tuesday without an FBI investigation of his mysterious and controversial background.
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Bush Gives State Secrets to Obama
→ Accuracy In Media | 3 Sep 2008 | 1:16 pm MDT
Why should Obama, with a documented history of contacts with communists and terrorists, be trusted with this information?
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NATO: On Terrorism
→ Accuracy In Media | 2 Sep 2008 | 6:21 pm MDT
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Who Vetted Obama?
→ Accuracy In Media | 2 Sep 2008 | 4:26 pm MDT
We are living witnesses to an incredible media double standard, whereby a Republican vice-presidential candidate’s personal life is being torn apart, while the Democratic presidential candidate continues to get a free ride.
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The Frank Marshall Davis Network
→ Accuracy In Media | 1 Sep 2008 | 5:03 pm MDT
The story of Frank Marshall Davis, Obama’s Marxist mentor, is completely intertwined with the story of the Hawaii Democrats rise to power.
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American Carolling
→ Accuracy In Media | 29 Aug 2008 | 4:40 pm MDT
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Man Attacks Other With Italian Sausage And Spices - kypost.com
→ Google News - Top Stories | 8 Sep 2008 | 4:15 am MDT

WNCTMan Attacks Other With Italian Sausage And Spices
kypost.com -24 minutes ago
A burglar in California thought he's spice things up over the weekend. In Fresno, police say a 22-year-old guy broke into a home while several men were sleeping inside.
Burglar wakes men with spice rub, sausage attackSan Jose Mercury News
Authorities: Burglar wakes men with spice rubThe Associated Press Telegraph.co.uk -WalesOnline -Seattle Times -Detroit Free Press all 210 news articles
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Russia opposes EU monitoring in Georgia - The Associated Press
→ Google News - Top Stories | 8 Sep 2008 | 4:10 am MDT

Washington PostRussia opposes EU monitoring in Georgia
The Associated Press -28 minutes ago
MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman says Moscow is against an independent European Union monitoring mission in Georgia.
Sarkozy to demand Russian pullout from GeorgiaUSA Today
Hague considers Georgia's claims of Russian human rights abuseRIA Novosti Reuters -The Press Association -Civil Georgia -Times Online all 1,389 news articles
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'Livni hypocritical for keeping quiet over police recommendations ... - Jerusalem Post
→ Google News - Top Stories | 8 Sep 2008 | 4:07 am MDT

Vancouver Sun'Livni hypocritical for keeping quiet over police recommendations ...
Jerusalem Post -32 minutes ago
By GIL HOFFMAN Sources close to Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz said on Monday that Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is being hypocritical in her failure to respond to the police's recommendation to indict Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on charges of ...
Police call to indict further weakens Israeli PMAFP
Roundup: Police's advice to indict Olmert described "meaningless"Xinhua Ynetnews -The Media Line -Press Trust of India -New York Times all 413 news articles
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Global Stocks Rise on Fannie, Freddie Takeover; Treasuries Drop - Bloomberg
→ Google News - Top Stories | 8 Sep 2008 | 4:02 am MDT

Times OnlineGlobal Stocks Rise on Fannie, Freddie Takeover; Treasuries Drop
Bloomberg -37 minutes ago
By Michael Patterson Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks rose in Europe and Asia, sending the MSCI World Index to its biggest gain since July, on speculation the US government's takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will shore up the mortgage market.
Video: US takes over mortgage giants - 08 Sep 08AlJazeeraEnglish
Dollar mixed after Fannie, Freddie rescueMarketWatch Forbes -International Herald Tribune -Wall Street Journal -BBC News all 4,689 news articles
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Thai prime minister in court to defend cooking show - guardian.co.uk
→ Google News - Top Stories | 8 Sep 2008 | 4:02 am MDT
Thai prime minister in court to defend cooking show
guardian.co.uk -37 minutes ago
Just when Thailand's beleaguered prime minister thought things could not get any worse, he found himself in court today defending his popular cooking show.
Thai Premier Samak Says Cooking Show Didn't Break Law (Update1)Bloomberg
Cooking show adds to Thailand PM's troublesThe Associated Press Reuters -Hindu -Times Online -Reuters UK all 259 news articles
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New Pakistan President Will Face `Struggling' Economy (Update2) - Bloomberg
→ Google News - Top Stories | 8 Sep 2008 | 3:54 am MDT

The AgeNew Pakistan President Will Face `Struggling' Economy (Update2)
Bloomberg -44 minutes ago
By James Rupert Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan's Asif Ali Zardari is set to take over as president of a country with the world's riskiest debt, the weakest currency in its history and a stock market so depressed that the exchange ordered a freeze on ...
Video: Inside Story-Pakistan's New President-Sept 7, Part 1AlJazeeraEnglish
PAKISTAN: Zardari - Victim of Many PrejudicesInter Press Service Economist -Jerusalem Post -Times Online -Financial Times all 3,722 news articles
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Flood fears ease after six killed in storms - Reuters UK
→ Google News - Top Stories | 8 Sep 2008 | 3:54 am MDT

BBC NewsFlood fears ease after six killed in storms
Reuters UK -45 minutes ago
LONDON (Reuters) - More rain will sweep across the country early this week, although the risk of flooding is much lower than over the weekend when storms killed at least six people and forced hundreds from their homes, authorities said.
Floods clean-up operation beginsBBC News
Britain mops up after storms and floods kill 6The Associated Press The Press Association -Sky News -guardian.co.uk -Glasgow Evening Times all 532 news articles
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India to sell nuclear deal to world, soothe critics - Reuters
→ Google News - Top Stories | 8 Sep 2008 | 3:10 am MDT

SifyIndia to sell nuclear deal to world, soothe critics
Reuters -1 hour ago
By Krittivas Mukherjee NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will take its civilian nuclear deal with the United States to the world looking to secure fuel supplies and reactor technology, analysts said, while seeking to soothe critics with a strong ...
In Secret Letter, Tough US Line on India Nuclear DealWashington Post
Atomic Club Votes to End Restrictions on IndiaNew York Times Moneycontrol.com -BBC News -Wall Street Journal -Christian Science Monitor all 1,861 news articles
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Fermi officials: New collider won't end the world - The Courier News
→ Google News - Top Stories | 8 Sep 2008 | 3:02 am MDT
Fermi officials: New collider won't end the world
The Courier News -1 hour ago
By ANDRE SALLES Staff Writer Early Wednesday, scientists from two sides of the world will come together for a celebration. Wine, cheese -- the whole deal.
Large Hadron Collider set to turn on; scientists get death threatsSlashGear
Land Of Big ScienceNewsweek Arizona Daily Star -Boston Globe -The Press Association -eFluxMedia all 483 news articles
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Hurricane Ike pounds Caribbean, worries US - Los Angeles Times
→ Google News - Top Stories | 8 Sep 2008 | 3:02 am MDT

BBC NewsHurricane Ike pounds Caribbean, worries US
Los Angeles Times -1 hour ago
Cuban fishermen secure a boat before the arrival of Ike. Government efforts, including massive evacuations, appear to have prevented fatalities in recent storms.
Video: Ike Tears Path of Destruction Through CaribbeanAssociatedPress
Ike kills dozens, heads toward Florida, Gulf CoastNewsday Seattle Times -Chicago Tribune -Bloomberg -guardian.co.uk all 5,429 news articles
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Martinez cop died trying to save 6 captives - San Francisco Chronicle
→ Google News - Top Stories | 8 Sep 2008 | 3:01 am MDT

KCBSMartinez cop died trying to save 6 captives
San Francisco Chronicle -1 hour ago
(09-07) 21:10 PDT Martinez -- Trying to save three women and three screaming children from an angry gunman, Martinez police officers Paul Starzyk and Ian Leong stood in a narrow hallway leading to a second-floor apartment on Saturday - and prepared to ...
Details emerge in Martinez triple shootingSan Jose Mercury News
Martinez Mourns Fallen OfficerKCBS AHN -The Associated Press -WLOS -FoxReno.com all 317 news articles
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US Attack Kills Several in Pakistan - New York Times
→ Google News - Top Stories | 8 Sep 2008 | 2:53 am MDT

Washington PostUS Attack Kills Several in Pakistan
New York Times -1 hour ago
By JANE PERLEZ and PIR ZUBAIR SHAH ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Four missiles fired from an American pilotless drone aircraft Monday hit a large compound in North Waziristan belonging to one of Pakistan’s most prominent Taliban leaders, ...
Several explosions in Pakistan's northwest kill 6Washington Post
US kill six in attack on Taliban commander's house in Pakistanguardian.co.uk AFP -PRESS TV -Reuters -People's Daily Online all 149 news articles
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Mbeki bids to save Zimbabwe talks - BBC News
→ Google News - Top Stories | 8 Sep 2008 | 2:26 am MDT

BBC NewsMbeki bids to save Zimbabwe talks
BBC News -2 hours ago
South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki is due in Harare to revive Zimbabwe's deadlocked power-sharing talks. Both Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai claim to have won this year's elections.
Zimbabwe: Talks Resume in HarareAllAfrica.com
South Africa's Mbeki to Hold Talks on Zimbabwe Political CrisisBloomberg AFP -Monsters and Critics.com -Reuters UK -Times of Malta all 324 news articles
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Persistence pays off for Serena at US Open - FOXSports.com
→ Google News - Top Stories | 8 Sep 2008 | 1:38 am MDT

ESPNPersistence pays off for Serena at US Open
FOXSports.com -3 hours ago
by Matt Cronin, Special to FOXSports.com NEW YORK - About nine days after Serena Williams lost in the Wimbledon final to her elder sister, Venus, she was still killing herself, unable to shake her mind of the errors that came late in a contest that she ...
Serena beats Jankovic for 3rd Open title, 9th SlamWashington Post
Serena Williams Wins US Open and Returns to No. 1New York Times San Francisco Chronicle -The Associated Press -Boston Globe -Los Angeles Times all 2,672 news articles
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Two feared dead in Colorado plane crash - Salt Lake Tribune
→ Google News - Top Stories | 8 Sep 2008 | 1:16 am MDT
Two feared dead in Colorado plane crash
Salt Lake Tribune -3 hours ago
AP MACK, Colo. - Two people are feared dead in a plane crash near Baxter Pass that was discovered by a motorist along the Colorado-Utah border.
Two dead in airplane crashDenver Post
Airplane crash rescue turns into recovery mission; two believed to ...KJCT8.com Rocky Mountain News -Grand Junction Sentinel -TheDenverChannel.com all 21 news articles
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The Real Obama is the Obama Oprah Knows
→ The Front Page | 5 Sep 2008 | 3:01 am MDT
Obamas connections to Oprah and her New Age guru Eckhart Tolle are the most revealing of the senators controversial associations.
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McCain-Palin Will Flush Apostate GOP's Big-Government Ways
→ The Front Page | 5 Sep 2008 | 1:01 am MDT
Arizona Sen. John McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are poised to rescue the GOPs core commitment to limited government.
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Obambi vs. Putinzilla (Cartoon)
→ The Front Page | 5 Sep 2008 | 1:01 am MDT
Place your bets ...
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Parson Mac's Muse: Jabberdonkey (Reprise)
→ The Front Page | 5 Sep 2008 | 1:01 am MDT
A take on Obama that we guarantee you won't find anywhere else ...
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In Love With His Country
→ The Front Page | 5 Sep 2008 | 1:01 am MDT
But will the country rally behind him?
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Caption Contest Winner: Queen of the Veepstakes
→ The Front Page | 5 Sep 2008 | 1:01 am MDT
With over 100 submissions, it was hard to nail the most fitting caption...
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Final Report from Afghanistan
→ The Front Page | 5 Sep 2008 | 1:01 am MDT
Few in the U.S. are even aware of the challenges confronting our 33,000 troops in this always difficult and often dangerous place.
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Sarah Palin's Amazing Grace
→ The Front Page | 5 Sep 2008 | 1:01 am MDT
Where the liberals went wrong with pro-life Palin ... A HUMAN EVENTS exclusive by the vice president for policy at the Family Research Council.
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Barack Obama, For Real
→ The Front Page | 4 Sep 2008 | 10:04 pm MDT
Columnist Bill Steigerwald interviews The Case Against Barack Obama author David Freddoso.
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John McCain's Night
→ The Front Page | 4 Sep 2008 | 7:31 pm MDT
My wife, a new American citizen, said she was nearly moved to tears, and the crowd in Minnesota clearly felt the same way.
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She's Not Voting 'Present'
→ The Front Page | 4 Sep 2008 | 1:01 am MDT
Palin's first mission accomplished: she has utterly vexed the opposition.
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Presidential Nominee Sen. John McCain's Speech at the Republican National Convention
→ The Front Page | 4 Sep 2008 | 1:01 am MDT
The text of presidential nominee Sen. John McCain's speech at the Republican National Convention.
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Sarah Palin Is My Girl
→ The Front Page | 4 Sep 2008 | 1:01 am MDT
Palin delivers slam-dunk performance at the convention.
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Who's Off Limits?
→ The Front Page | 4 Sep 2008 | 1:01 am MDT
The example being set by Bristol Palin is a testament to the pro-life cause.
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The Media Bristles at Bristol
→ The Front Page | 4 Sep 2008 | 1:01 am MDT
One of the great setups for humor in theater is to say something by denying you would ever say that thing.
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ITQ BerryCam - In which our heroine is confronted by abstractly angry farmers, and surprisingly cheery Liberals
→ Macleans.ca Blog Central » National | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:25 pm MDT
After spending the morning outside Rideau Hall, ITQ headed off to the Billings Estate in Ottawa South to liveblog Stephane Dion at the launch of the local Liberal campaign - which we did right here. But first, we had to run a small- to medium-sized gauntlet, as gauntlets go, of protesters: ShareThis [...]
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ITQ BerryCam - Election 2008: And so it begins — with a lot of waiting around.
→ Macleans.ca Blog Central » National | 7 Sep 2008 | 9:22 pm MDT
Various shots from the first official day on the campaign trail, starting with the ceremonial dropping of the writ (not pictured) at Rideau Hall, liveblogged earlier here: ShareThis
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BTC: Twirling, twirling
→ Macleans.ca Blog Central » National | 7 Sep 2008 | 8:45 pm MDT
So in addition to referencing Kang this morning, Jack Layton is now being accused of “referencing” Barack Obama and Bill Richardson. Compare and contrast. Layton, this morning. “Today, Stephen Harper announced he is quitting as Prime Minister. And so, today I’m applying for his job.” Richardson, in this ad. Layton, this morning. “Like a father and son in Kenora—co-workers [...]
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BTC: Family is everything (IV)
→ Macleans.ca Blog Central » National | 7 Sep 2008 | 2:30 pm MDT
Excerpts from the Prime Minister’s interview with CTV. “Mrs. Harper, Laureen, will do a lot in the campaign. She loves to go around and meet our workers. She likes the spotlight less than I so she’ll do it in smaller encounters around the country. The kids are in school and, being responsible parents, I don’t want [...]
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Liveblogging the Liberals’ Ottawa South campaign kickoff: It’s almost like being on a leaders’ tour (but not quite)
→ Macleans.ca Blog Central » National | 7 Sep 2008 | 1:51 pm MDT
Okay, so I’ll tell y’all upfront that I have no idea what to expect from this event, but since it’s local, involves a party leader, and it’s not like I have anything else on my election coverage schedule tonight, I’ll be liveblogging it starting at around — 4:30ish? Does that work for everyone? In the meantime, [...]
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Le ciel est bleu: liveblogging Stephen Harper’s first Quebec City event of Campaign ‘08
→ Macleans.ca Blog Central » National | 7 Sep 2008 | 12:50 pm MDT
2:41:18 PM So here’s the thing. I don’t actually plan to do a lot of liveblogging during this campaign, because that’s ITQ’s thing and I’m not so much the blackberry-typing guy. Thumbs hurt. But two things happened on the way to the Quebec City Hilton (official motto: “Since We Renovated, The Decor Sucks A Lot Less”). [...]
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BTC: ‘Forwards, not backwards’
→ Macleans.ca Blog Central » National | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:57 am MDT
Video from Jack Layton’s campaign-opening speech this morning. Specifically from 4:34 to 4:50. ShareThis
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The Commons: ‘That’s not me’
→ Macleans.ca Blog Central » National | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:47 am MDT
Stephane Dion arrived a bit late. Though, in fairness, he was just trying to be polite—allowing the Prime Minister to finish up at Rideau before descending the staircase at the west end of Parliament’s centre block to address his own news conference. He arrived with his wife, Janine Krieber, at his side; his right hand in [...]
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(Temporarily) Wellsless Inkless
→ Macleans.ca Blog Central » National | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:39 am MDT
Or something like that. This is actually ITQ posting for Inkless, who will be on the plane for the first week of the HARPER LEADERSHIP 08 tour. In fact, they’re apparently about to take off, which is why he couldn’t post this himself: ShareThis
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I’m gonna pick “More of the Same” for $100, Alex
→ Macleans.ca Blog Central » National | 7 Sep 2008 | 8:24 am MDT
“The Economy, Stupid” was actually not James Carvilles’s main war-room slogan in 1992. The first of three mottos hand-written on a piece of paper in the Clinton campaign headquarters was “Change Vs. More of the Same.” (”Don’t Forget Health Care” was third.) Clinton/Carville/Begala ‘92 is not one of the history-making campaigns Stephen Harper’s brain trust likes [...]
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Headlines (click here)
→ The New Media Journal Headline News | 6 Sep 2008 | 1:14 pm MDT
Palin Snubbed by Oprah Winfrey: No Appearance Until After Election
Oprah Winfrey is giving Sarah Palin the cold shoulder. The GOP vice-presidential nominee may have wowed delegates in Minnesota, but Winfrey decided yesterday to freeze her out - saying she had no interest in sharing her TV couch with the first-term Alaska governor.Dems for Toss American Flags in Dumpster
A vendor at Invesco Field found the flags, used for Obama's speech and which were going to be thrown out. Boy Scouts transported 84 trash bags full of bundles of flags to the McCain campaign.McCain, Obama Plan Joint Stop at Ground Zero
Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama said Saturday they will put aside partisan politics for a joint appearance at Ground Zero to mark the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.McCain, Palin Get Huge Welcome in MI, WI
John McCain and Sarah Palin got a rousing welcome Friday to the final two months of the presidential campaign, stressing themes of a strong America and concern about the sinking economy.Bhutto Widower Sweeps Presidential Election
Asif Ali Zardari has secured a large win in Pakistan's presidential elections today, capping a remarkable rise from jail, exile and his wife Benazir Bhutto's assassination just nine months ago.Bolivian Opposition Organizing 'Civil Coup'
Rebel governors in the east of Bolivia are mounting a "civil coup" against the government, President Evo Morales has charged, as a political crisis gripping the country edged closer to confrontation.Married at 9, Slain by Parents at 17
A Pakistani girl forced into marriage with a 45-year-old man at the age of nine has been killed by her parents because she asked for an annulment.McCain Casts GOP Ticket as Force for Reform
John McCain sounded a warning to Washington Thursday that “change is coming,” accepting the Republican presidential nomination in St. Paul and casting the GOP ticket as a force for reform.Obama Suddenly Riled
Sen. Barack Obama ditched his normal languid cool today, punching back at Gov. Sarah Palin as he spoke with reporters in York, PA, hotly defending his work as a community organizer.Biden’s Ties to Pro-Iran Groups Questioned
Biden’s election campaigns “have been financed by Islamic charities of the Iranian regime based in California and by the Silicon Iran network,” a group of wealthy Iranian-American businessmen.Glitch Allowed Palin to 'Wing' Part of Speech
Halfway through Sarah Palin's speech Wednesday night at the RNC, she deviated from the prepared text due to a teleprompter malfunction which caused it to continue scrolling during applause breaks.Rangel Failed to Report $75,000 in Income
US Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) has earned more than $75,000 in rental income from a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic, but never reported it on his federal or state tax returns.123 Killed In Obama's Chicago Over Summer
An estimated 123 people were shot and killed over the summer in Barack Obama's home town of Chicago. That's nearly double the number of soldiers killed in Iraq over the same time period.
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NMJ Editorial (click here)
→ The New Media Journal Headline News | 6 Sep 2008 | 1:14 pm MDT
Palin and the Power of Real American Women
Frank Salvato, Managing Editor
It is the consensus among conservative new media pundits – and the Conservative mainstream for that matter – that the speech Governor Sarah Palin gave in accepting the Republican Party’s vice presidential nomination effectively put the Progressive-Left and the Democrat Party on notice. The double-standard hypocrisy demonstrated by the Leftist mainstream media on behalf of Barack Obama’s campaign will not stand. If the cowards of the Progressive-Left want a fight, they’ve got one...and it’s with someone who plays hockey. Oops!Michelle Obama’s on the Man that Would Be President
Nancy Salvato, Senior Editor
In her speech at the Democratic Convention, Michelle Obama attempted to paint a picture of her husband as a man who defied the odds, who despite being raised by a single mother and his grandparents, worked through adversity to achieve his success and who uses his accomplishments to better his community and our world. Anyone with more than a superficial understanding of what they represent understands that Barack’s Mother and father, and Michelle’s bitter feelings about the racial divide in America have succeeded in distorting this man’s worldview into one that is diametrically opposed to that which fosters pride in our country and its accomplishments.
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NMJ Commentary (click here)
→ The New Media Journal Headline News | 6 Sep 2008 | 1:14 pm MDT
Meet Obama’s Other NOI-Friendly Supporter
Bud White, NoQuarterUSA.net
Obama’s breathtakingly bad judgment in choosing friends seems to know no end. First it was the crude, anti-white Jeremiah Wright. Next came Obama’s benefactor, the corrupt Tony Rezko. Then it was America’s favorite terrorists couple, Ayers and Dohrn.Now Obama is listing on his Web page as a “testimonial” of “People of Faith” a woman who is a friend and ally of the rabidly anti-semitic, anti-white leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan.Democrats & Community Disorganizing
Russ Vaughn , OldWarDogs.us
In response to Rudy Giuliani’s and Sarah Palin’s convention jibes at The O’s experiences as a community organizer, the Obama campaign is issuing statements of outrage, reminding us all that a Jesus-like Barack Obama was ministering to South Chicago residents whose lives had been devastated by the recent closing of nearby steel mills which had been the economic engine driving that community. All that may be true; well, except for the Jesus-like characterization, but then they just can’t seem to help themselves, can they?Strange Rumblings in Lebanon
Gary H. Johnson, Jr., Right Side News
Two years after the Israeli-Hezbollah war which left much of south Lebanon's infrastructure in shambles, military analyst W. Thomas Smith, Jr. offers new insight into recent developments surrounding Hezbollah's quest for power in that country. Lending a trained eye to the strength and activities of Hezbollah, challenges faced by Lebanese Army and police forces, as well as sharing a portion of a personal conversation with President Michel Sleiman, Smith unveils the truth behind Hezbollah: He describes the extremist state within the legitimate state, and expounds on the regional dangers of the Shiia terrorist organization and its newly acquired political powers.Can Gov't Safeguard Our Children?
State Rep. Cynthia Davis (MO), The Capitol Report
We’ve all heard about big brothers protecting their little sisters, but is “big brother government” capable of chaperoning the date? Because it involves taxpayer money, the answer affects you. Have you ever taken your teenager to get a physical and had the doctor ask you to step out of the room? Some professionals are quick to assume that teenagers would more willingly talk to a stranger than to the one who raised them all their lives. While we all know of families that are in distress, we cannot conclude that all families are riddled with pathology either.America Beloved, Refreshed & Renewed
Rev. Lainie Dowell, Voice Ink
The 2008 Republican Party Presidential nominee, Senator John McCain unleashed "a plain rash" all over the Democrats when he announced The Honorable Governor Sarah Palin, as his Vice Presidential running mate in the 2008 election. (Think out of the box and see if you can find in her name, "A Plain Rash")Jewish Impact on US Democracy
Amb. Yoram Ettinger, The Ettinger Report
Intense Jewish participation in US elections has been nurtured by home-court conditions: The US considers Judaism a key factor in the foundation of its cultural, ideological, legal and political systems. The trilateral covenant among the US, the Jewish People and the Jewish State was established by the Puritans during the 17th century, expanded by the Founding Fathers and sustained until today.AhMADinejad
Alan Caruba, Capitol Hill Coffee House
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, was bouncing off the walls in August. Hardly a day went by without his getting crazier and crazier about Zionism, Israel, and Jews in general. The last guy who talked like this was Adolf Hitler and he started World War Two...Palin Properly Frames the Debate: Elitism vs. Americanism
JB Williams, The New Media Journal
As a small town hockey mom turned political ethics crusader in the biggest state of the union, Sarah Palin stepped to the RNC Convention podium Wednesday night an hit it out of the park. Even the left-wing press was punched back on its heels by the home run début performance of the “pit bull in lipstick” they knew little about, but had already written off as in way over her head. Immediately following her speech, former Clinton campaign manager Howard Wolfson said, “Now democrats have something to worry about!” He’s right for a change...Victory in Iraq! We Have Won!
Matt Bruce, The New Media Journal
What kind of headline would you expect newspapers nationwide to trumpet if America won the war in Iraq and destroyed al-Qaeda there? Maybe something like this? "War In Iraq Won! Al-Qaeda Smashed!" Perhaps even old-fashioned newsboys on the street corners yelling, "Extra, extra! Vic'try in Iraq! Read all about it!" Don't hold your breath.Universal Healthcare: A Backdoor Approach
Paul R. Hollrah, The New Media Journal
After living in our city home for two years, where my healthcare needs were provided by a Tulsa-based HMO, we decided in May of 2007 to sell our home in the city and live full time at our lake home, situated in a remote 720-acre gated community of beautiful lakes, rolling hills, and crystal clear streams...a place where it’s possible to catch dozens of bass or crappie in an hour or two of fishing, and the lake is just a short block from our front door.
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Articles (click here)
→ The New Media Journal Headline News | 6 Sep 2008 | 1:13 pm MDT
World
Turning Russia Into a Terrorist Enclave
Yulia Latynina, The Moscow Times
USA
Bush Has a Good Economic Record
Keith Marsden, The Wall Street Journal
Terrorism
Dealing with Fundamentalist Islam
Daniel Pipes
Government
Columbia University Has No Right to My Land
Nick Sprayregen, The Wall Street Journal
Politics
The Master Strategist
Caroline B. Glick, Jewish World Review
The Fifth Column
Michelle's Boot Camps for Radicals
Investor's Business Daily
Education
CAIR Gets Failing Grades at Charter Schools
Patrick Poole, Pajamas Media
Culture War
Palin Gets the Spiteful Margaret Thatcher Treatment
Janet Daley, The London Telegraph
Media
Keith Olbermann & All the Ships at Sea
Robert Ferrigno, The National Review
Current Events
He Was Always a Fake
Kirsten Powers, The New York Post
Religion
Christians Apologize to Muslims for Praying During Ramadan
Cranmer
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Terrorism (click here)
→ The New Media Journal Headline News | 6 Sep 2008 | 1:11 pm MDT
Headlines
Biden’s Ties to Pro-Iran Groups Questioned
Kenneth R. Timmerman, NewsMax
Sen. Barack Obama and his newly-picked running mate, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, may have sparred during the primaries. But on one issue they are firmly united: the need to forge closer ties to the government of Iran. Kaveh Mohseni, a spokesman for the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran, calls Biden “a great friend of the mullahs.” He notes that Biden’s election campaigns “have been financed by Islamic charities of the Iranian regime based in California and by the Silicon Iran network,” a loosely-knit group of wealthy Iranian-American businessmen and women seeking to end the US trade embargo on Iran. “In exchange, the senator does his best to aid the mullahs,” Mohseni argues. Biden’s ties to pro-Tehran lobbying groups are no secret. But so far, the elite media has avoided even mentioning the subject. Just recently, Biden was one of 16 US senators who voted against a bill that would add Iran’s Revolutionary Guards corps to the State Department’s list of international terrorist organizations, because of its involvement in murdering US troops in Iraq. Rather than sanction those in power in Tehran, Biden and Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel have argued that the United States should offer Tehran a greater role in Iraq’s domestic affairs.
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Dealing with Fundamentalist Islam
Daniel Pipes
Though anchored in religious creed, fundamentalist Islam is a radical utopian movement closer in spirit to other such movements (communism, fascism) than to traditional religion. By nature anti-democratic and aggressive, anti-Semitic and anti-Western, it has great plans. Indeed, spokesmen for fundamentalist Islam see their movement standing in direct competition to Western civilization and challenging it for global supremacy.More Articles...
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Education (click here)
→ The New Media Journal Headline News | 6 Sep 2008 | 1:10 pm MDT
Headlines
Four-Day Week for French Schools
Charles Bremner, The Times of London
Ten million French children returned to the classroom yesterday to find their lessons crammed into a four-day week, a revolution that delighted families but drew criticism from experts. In a scheme decreed by President Sarkozy, all primary and junior secondary children are being spared the unpopular tradition of Saturday morning classes. Since most schools are closed on Wednesdays, the majority will enjoy three days off school every week. No other Europeans, except for a small minority in Germany and Luxembourg, follow a four-day week. French Lycée (senior secondary) pupils continue with Saturday classes. Children will still spend as much time in the classroom as the European average, but educators say that their learning faces disruption by being squeezed into two blocks of two days...The new system was cheered by parents and teachers when it was announced a year ago in fulfilment of an electoral promise by Mr Sarkozy. Saturday school had long been cursed by families who have to rise early to escort children and forgo weekend trips. It meant that divorced parents with weekend visits spent less time with their offspring. Teachers also disliked the two-hour Saturday session, which ate into weekends: quite a few played truant themselves.More Headlines...
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Polls
→ The New Media Journal Headline News | 6 Sep 2008 | 1:10 pm MDT
'08 Election
McCain: 42.0%
Negatives: 36.6%
*Delegates: 174Obama: 45.8%
Negatives: 35.8%
*Delegates: 238Nader: 3.2%
Barr: 2.2%* - Projected
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Quote of the Day & This Day in US History
→ The New Media Journal Headline News | 6 Sep 2008 | 1:09 pm MDT
"Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases."
-- James Bryant Conant
1781 - British Brigadier General Benedict Arnold, a former Patriot officer already infamous and much maligned for betraying the United States the previous year, adds to his notoriety by ordering his British command to burn New London, Connecticut.1863 - After months of campaigning against Battery Wagner on Morris Island in a protracted Union effort to capture nearby Charleston, South Carolina, a Confederate garrison finally flees the island.
1901 - President William McKinley is shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley was greeting the crowd in the Temple of Music when Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, stepped forward and shot the president twice at point-blank range. McKinley lived for another week before finally succumbing to a gangrene infection.
1943 - A new high-speed train traveling between New York City and Washington, DC, derails, killing 79.
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So Far, It Just Isn’t Looking Like Asia’s Century
→ Primetime Politics | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:55 am MDT
The countries of the East won’t be banding together to replace the West as the seat of global power—at least not anytime soon.
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Drill For Oil And Cut Interest Rates
→ Primetime Politics | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:52 am MDT
Two things need saying about Friday’s jobs data showing marked deterioration in the U.S. economy. One, it’s not as bad as it looks. And two, it might get worse if policymakers do nothing.
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Smashing!
→ Primetime Politics | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:50 am MDT
The CERN supercollider will open more than the universe.
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Dear Mr. Obama, the Iraq War Was Not a Mistake!
→ Primetime Politics | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:47 am MDT
Incredible.
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Don’t Believe the Doomsayers. Ohio’s Economy Is Doing Fine.
→ Primetime Politics | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:45 am MDT
We’re cutting taxes to promote growth.
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Science Slows Global Warming!
→ Primetime Politics | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:45 am MDT
Yes, kids, science is a wonderful thing. But not nearly as wonderful as climate modeling, which can perform supernatural miracles. Honest!
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McCain Finds the Right Wingman
→ Primetime Politics | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:42 am MDT
And she’s a woman.
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The Maverick Ticket
→ Primetime Politics | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:40 am MDT
With his acceptance speech, John McCain became the candidate of change.
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Right at the Edge
→ Primetime Politics | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:40 am MDT
The Taliban and Al Qaeda have established a haven in Pakistan’s tribal areas along the Afghan border. This is where the war on terror will be fought – and possibly lost.
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Sarah Palin Feminism
→ Primetime Politics | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:35 am MDT
Contrary to media stereotypes, evangelicals have no problem with women in the workplace.
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5 Myths About Those Civic-Minded, Deeply Informed Voters
→ Primetime Politics | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:30 am MDT
One thing both Democrats and Republicans agreed about in their vastly different conventions: The American voter will not only decide but decide wisely. But does the electorate really know what it’s talking about?
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The Road to the Surge
→ Primetime Politics | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:30 am MDT
A guide to key events and measures of violence in the Iraq war, before and after implementation of the surge.
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Al-Qa’eda’s American-born Propaganda Chief May Have Died in Predator Attack
→ Primetime Politics | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:25 am MDT
Western intelligence sources in Pakistan believe that al-Qa’eda’s prize American recruit and propaganda chief may have been killed in a CIA-directed airstrike.
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Obama Rolls Up his Sleeves, Hits Hard
→ Primetime Politics | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:25 am MDT
Economy “will dominate both our schedule and our speeches in every appearance we make now through Election Day,” says Obama strategist.
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Obama on Guns
→ Primetime Politics | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:20 am MDT
“Even if I want to take them away, I don’t have the votes in Congress.”
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Top 25 Competitive Congressional Races
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 8 Sep 2008 | 6:03 am MDT
Think this is going to be another big year for Democrats? They have chances, but they also have a lot of territory to defend. Think Republicans can crawl back? Not until they deal with fundamental issues that sent them to the minority in 2006. Democrats did their best to expand the playing field two years ago, and they succeeded in places like Indiana, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. That gave the party a larger majority than Republicans enjoyed even after their 1994 landslide.
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Canadian Consensus
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 8 Sep 2008 | 12:32 am MDT
The prospect of a Canadian general election leaves me, and I would guess most of my countrymen, bored. Now, boredom comes in slightly different flavours, and I will admit that the emotions associated with betrayal enter into mine. But it is like the vanilla in the ice cream; one is so used to it. We have about five parties representing five slightly different grades of vanilla. The Tories perhaps anger me the most, because they promise chocolate chips, and don't deliver. Well, maybe a couple of chocolate chips, but the irritation value of the false packaging more than compensates for them. The chocolate chips in my analogy correspond to the "faith and freedom" values that are baldly presented in any Republican manifesto, and more timidly even in Democrat ones, in the republic to our south and north-west.
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Axelrod & Davis on "Fox News Sunday"
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 7 Sep 2008 | 2:20 pm MDT
CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: I'm Chris Wallace and this is "Fox News Sunday."
Fifty-eight days till the election and counting. With the conventions over, McCain and Palin, Obama and Biden are sprinting to the finish. What are their plans to win the White House?
We'll ask David Axelrod, chief strategist for Obama, and Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager -- Axelrod and Davis, only on "Fox News Sunday."
Then, Sarah Palin brings down the house.
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Palin Should Strike Fear in Democrats
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 7 Sep 2008 | 1:47 pm MDT
"You arrogant ass! You've killed us!" So said the executive officer of a Soviet submarine to his captain in Tom Clancy's novel "The Hunt for Red October" after the captain had recklessly fired a torpedo that homed in on his own sub. NBC's David Gregory must have had similar thoughts as he noted, ruefully, that the news media's assault on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin boosted substantially the television audience for her acceptance speech Wednesday night.
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When Did Freedom Become An Orphan?
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 7 Sep 2008 | 12:00 am MDT
"We must, and we shall, set the tide running again in the cause of freedom. And this party, with its every action, every word, every breath, and every heartbeat, has but a single resolve, and that is freedom." -- Barry Goldwater, accepting the 1964 Republican presidential nomination This year's Republican National Convention had a different theme for each day. Monday was "Serving a Cause Greater than Self." Tuesday was "Service," Wednesday was "Reform" and Thursday was "Peace."
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Palin Rises Above "Shrill" Media
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 7 Sep 2008 | 12:00 am MDT
SAN DIEGO -- Anyone who heard Sarah Palin's rousing speech at the GOP National Convention should now understand why Democrats have been trying to destroy her. And why, luckily for the country, they've failed. You mess with a hockey mom -- and even go after her family -- and you're bound to lose some teeth.
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Romancing the Vote
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 7 Sep 2008 | 12:00 am MDT
ST. PAUL -- The 2008 Republican National Convention had too much in common with the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. That's where presidential candidate John Kerry talked endlessly about his military service -- to the point where people would joke, "Hey, did you know that John Kerry served in Vietnam?" Nor did Teresa Heinz Kerry -- the Massachusetts senator's heiress second wife -- set delegates on fire. By that convention's end, the crowd clearly lacked gusto for their nominee and the campaign ahead. Last week in St. Paul, the Republican convention dwelled too long on McCain's POW status -- and, yes, he is a true hero -- and McCain's wife didn't seem to connect with the delegates. There was less hoopla after McCain's speech than after that of his running mate, Sarah Palin.
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The Electoral Sitcom
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 7 Sep 2008 | 12:00 am MDT
WASHINGTON -- St. Paul followed Denver as night follows day. Republican deconstruction artists quickly tore into the lofty images that Democratic campaign managers had spun around their guileful, graceful nominee. Two months of party warfare to come were methodically set in concrete in the past two weeks. But conventions also send important, often unintended, messages about the state of the American spirit at any given moment. Both gatherings revealed Americans as anxious and eager not just to move beyond the George W. Bush era but to repair the gigantic mess that Washington policymaking is rightly perceived to have become.
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Obama, McCain Will Have a Mandate for Change
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 7 Sep 2008 | 12:00 am MDT
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Change is coming, change you can count on. That is the simple, central message from the two presidential nominating conventions held in Denver and St. Paul during the past two weeks. Whether it is Barack Obama or John McCain going to the White House next January, the new president will understand that his mandate from the voters is to cleanse Washington of its excessive partisanship and attempt to break the gridlock that has prevailed on almost all the big issues.
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Are You Better Off? That Depends
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 7 Sep 2008 | 12:00 am MDT
WASHINGTON -- John McCain, who is in what Macbeth called "the sear, the yellow leaf" of life, has revived an oldie from seven elections ago with a campaign commercial asserting: "We're worse off than we were four years ago." This, of course, derives from Ronald Reagan's question, addressed to the nation with devastating effect on his opponent, during Reagan's debate with President Jimmy Carter in 1980. The nation considered the answer obvious. Reeling from oil shocks worse than today's, with 52 U.S. hostages in Tehran and with the Soviet Union rampant in Afghanistan, voters resoundingly said "no." Today we know that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan hastened the collapse of the Evil Empire, so some things that seem to make us worse off are not unmixed curses.
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American Rebels Make a Nice Family
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 7 Sep 2008 | 12:00 am MDT
WASHINGTON -- It has been a guilty pleasure at times, like watching a particularly raucous episode of "The Jerry Springer Show," but there's something lovable about the way this year's never-ending political campaign has turned out. We now have two presidential tickets that display the American rainbow in all its eccentric colors. It's as raw and real, and as unlikely, as the nation itself: on one side a suave, aloof African-American, twinned with a loquacious Catholic whose manner evokes his blue-collar roots; on the other, a certified war hero paired with a young woman from Alaska who looks like the heroine of a country music song and earns her reputation both as a beauty-contest charmer and a political "barracuda." <