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  1. Babes Of The 50 States

    → Support Your Local Gunfighter | 8 Sep 2008 | 5:00 am MDT

    Someone notify Mrs. Graves. I’m posting Jenna Fischer! Jenna is today’s babe representative from Indiana. She balances the delicate line between cute and hot quite well, so she is appealing to just about every man on the face of the earth. Or am I alone in that thinking? This from [...]

  2. McCain 54, Obama 44?

    → Don Surber | 8 Sep 2008 | 5:00 am MDT

    USA Today poll of registered voters seems a tad odd.

  3. A Cool Hour on the Israel-Palestine Conflict 1 (by Samuel Fleischacker)

    → normblog | 8 Sep 2008 | 4:10 am MDT

    [This post is the first of a series by Sam which will be running here on Mondays for the next couple of months.] 1. Introductory I've long thought that the fundamental moral issues at stake in the Israel/Palestine controversy -...

  4. Just ask me

    → Don Surber | 8 Sep 2008 | 4:00 am MDT

    Question: Are Evangelicals Really Sold on Republican Gov. Sarah Palin?

  5. Convention worked like a charm for the GOP

    → The Partisan Report | 8 Sep 2008 | 3:14 am MDT

    According to the polls most didn’t buy into the DNC message. Still, the overwhelming attitude for change in this country is still boiling but it looks like the majority may be looking for that change in a McCain/Palin ticket. Now that the RNC is over, it’s obvious that the message resonated…at least initially. There’s still [...]

  6. Where Will Hurricane Ike Strike?

    → Pajamas Media | 8 Sep 2008 | 3:12 am MDT

    Florida? Mississippi? New Orleans? PJM's Weather Nerd is keeping watch on the storm.

  7. As the World Turns: The Obama Chronicles

    → The Partisan Report | 8 Sep 2008 | 2:58 am MDT

    My Muslim Faith and, say, did I ever tell you I almost joined the military? This answer is just oozing with dishonesty and pandering. The guy is a hack. Why can’t he just for once say something he actually means and believes instead of “uhing” and stuttering himself to PC response. Secondly, the answer was stupid [...]

  8. Glorious News

    → The Partisan Report | 8 Sep 2008 | 2:40 am MDT

    Rejoice! The cackling old lady, Christ Matthews, and the painfully stupid and untalented Keith Oberman have been removed from their anchor seats at MSNBC. They’ll remain analyst and contributors for the network, they just won’t be the main mouthpieces. I love wonderful news first thing in my morning. After months of accusations of political bias [...]

  9. Yet Another Japanese Prime Minister Bites the Dust

    → Pajamas Media | 8 Sep 2008 | 2:09 am MDT

    Two Japanese leaders have now resigned after less than a year in office. What's going on?

  10. Separating Palin Fact From Palin Fiction

    → Pajamas Media | 8 Sep 2008 | 2:01 am MDT

    The complete (but still growing) list of Palin rumors: good, bad, and fishy.

  11. When Good Teaching = Higher Salaries

    → Pajamas Media | 8 Sep 2008 | 1:50 am MDT

    D.C.’s crusading schools chancellor takes on the worst problem of all: teacher pay.

  12. The Top Ten Ways Sarah Palin Has Shaken Up the Race

    → Pajamas Media | 8 Sep 2008 | 1:47 am MDT

    It's a new, different — and unpredicable — political landscape.

  13. Russia May Hold Naval Maneuvers With Venezuela

    → CNSNews.com Headlines | 8 Sep 2008 | 12:52 am MDT

    Russian ships are to visit Venezuela before the year's end and the two navies could hold a joint exercise.

  14. Season Opener May Be Season Ender for Patriots QB Tom Brady

    → CNSNews.com Headlines | 8 Sep 2008 | 12:42 am MDT

    After missing the entire preseason with a foot injury, Tom Brady left Sunday's season opener against the Kansas City Chiefs in the first quarter after being hit on the left leg by Chiefs safety Bernard Pollard.

  15. Olbermann, Matthews Won't Anchor Political Events

    → CNSNews.com Headlines | 8 Sep 2008 | 12:29 am MDT

    MSNBC is replacing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as co-anchors of political night coverage with David Gregory, and will use the two newsmen as commentators.


  16. OPEC Considers Cutting Oil Production

    → CNSNews.com Headlines | 8 Sep 2008 | 12:11 am MDT

    Any OPEC move Tuesday to pare back output would result in howls of protest from the U.S. and other major consumers.

  17. India-US Nuclear Deal Inches Ahead

    → CNSNews.com Headlines | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:25 pm MDT

    The focus now moves to the U.S. Congress, which resumes Monday for a short session that may not find the time to ratify the agreement.

  18. Democrats in Trouble

    → CNSNews.com Headlines | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:25 pm MDT

    It was McCain’s gutsy selection of Palin that opened the door to victory.

  19. My Brain Tumor

    → CNSNews.com Headlines | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:18 pm MDT

    The main reason I am writing this column is that many people have asked me how I first realized I was suffering from a brain tumor and what I have done about it.

  20. US Government Takes Over Mortgage Giants

    → CNSNews.com Headlines | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:10 pm MDT

    The Bush administration's seizure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is potentially a $200 billion bet that it will help reverse a prolonged housing and credit crisis.

  21. Fanny, Freddie, and Obama

    → AmSpec News Article Feed | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:08 pm MDT

    They go way back.

  22. Cold, Calculating McCain

    → AmSpec News Article Feed | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:08 pm MDT

    His handling of the vice presidential rollout demonstrated a finely tuned strategic sense.

  23. The Miracle Worker

    → AmSpec News Article Feed | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:08 pm MDT

    Sarah Palin lights the Republican fire.

  24. False Free Speech

    → AmSpec News Article Feed | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:08 pm MDT

    Should the First Amendment protect the cowardice of slanderers who hide behind anonymity on the Internet?

  25. Sub-Prime Minister

    → AmSpec News Article Feed | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:07 pm MDT

    Reflections on the fall of Ehud Olmert.

  26. That ’70s Showoff

    → AmSpec News Article Feed | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:07 pm MDT

    Barack Obama even likes the notion of price controls.

  27. "Tell No One"

    → AmSpec News Article Feed | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:02 pm MDT

    But unlike Hollywood directors, who for all intents have abandoned story-telling, Guillaume Canet goes to wonderful length to tell us everything.

  28. Religious ‘Defamation’ on Agenda at UN Rights Session

    → CNSNews.com Headlines | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:41 pm MDT

    The United Nations’ Human Rights Council kicks off a new session in Geneva on Monday, and a controversial push by Islamic states to outlaw religious “defamation” is high on the agenda.

  29. “I Ain’t Going Back To No Rehab!”

    → Support Your Local Gunfighter | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:00 pm MDT

    You’ll never guess who’s “chasing the dragon.” BEIJING (AFP) - An elephant has kicked his heroin habit after a three-year stint on an island rehab in southern China, an official and state media said Thursday. I didn’t know Rosie O’Donnell had a drug problem! The four-year-old Asian elephant, called Xiguang, has now being transported to a wildlife reserve [...]

  30. USA Today

    → PoliPundit.com | 7 Sep 2008 | 9:26 pm MDT

    Alert reader Kathy pointed me to a USA Today poll showing the race at 54-44 for McCain among those most likely to vote. Among registered voters, McCain has a 50-46 lead.

  31. SurveyUSA

    → PoliPundit.com | 7 Sep 2008 | 9:20 pm MDT

    A new SurveyUSA poll goes beyond the head-to-head numbers, and has encouraging news for McCain. He leads on every issue, except for the environment. Incredibly, McCain leads Obama by 55-41 on the issue of Iraq. And the respondents bet, by a 49-44 margin, that McCain will win the election.

  32. Olbermann out

    → Don Surber | 7 Sep 2008 | 9:00 pm MDT

    New York Times: MSNBC won’t be using Keith Olbermann to anchor its election night coverage.

  33. Sarah Palin and The Press

    → Dr. Melissa Clouthier | 7 Sep 2008 | 8:42 pm MDT

    At this point no one can argue that the press and elites editorializing on major newspaper pages, lead by a coterie of elite women including Maureen Dowd, Andrea Mitchell, Sally Quinn, Gloria Steinem and even, in an unguarded moment, Peggy Noonan, have been kind to Sarah Palin and her family. Scurrilous rumors began swirling the [...]

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  34. '2 Blog Or Not 2 Blog?'

    → American Daily - Phoenix, AZ | 7 Sep 2008 | 8:11 pm MDT

    The blog has its place. I would suggest it's not appropriate for a "news" or a "pure journalistic" effort. Analysis, Commentary and News is not well served in a primarily interactive venue.

  35. Obama: I was too flip on abortion question

    → The Partisan Report | 7 Sep 2008 | 7:42 pm MDT

    No Obama, you weren’t. You just don’t have the testicles it sometimes takes to answer tough questions. It’s a conviction thing — a strong understanding and belief in something. Not a strong belief in believing in nothing as is the liberal code of intellect and morality. I suppose it’s things like this that repeatedly sink [...]

  36. Google search term of the month.

    → Rachel Lucas | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:54 pm MDT

    Here’s the post that hapless soul’s search landed on. Here’s the post that shows them the proper subject-verb-object arrangement regarding possums, biting, and dogs. And by “biting,” I mean “killing and devouring in an orgy of bone-crunching, gut-slurping HORROR.” Yeah, I’ve been putting shit on their heads again. It’s a sickness, and I [...]

  37. Palin Rumors Debunked, 1. 2. 3…

    → Common Sense Junction | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:20 pm MDT

    Live! The Sarah Palin rumor list that now stands at 66 and is growing at fever pitch as reporters MSM political activists sift through Daily Kos - Huff-Post and Lyndon Johnson - Richard Nixon rat-f***ing files for more dirty tricks to kept the ravenous public well fed. However, today there’s a new twist. Charles Martin [...]

  38. Correction: Andrew Sullivan's Blog Not the First to Carry News of Motion to Seal Divorce Records

    → Ace of Spades HQ | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:19 pm MDT

    Someone else beat him by a day, on some obscure blog. Still, sure would like to know how it came to Sullivan's attention. Oh well. Let me quote Sullivan's defensive quote of the day today: "Questions are never impertinent. Answers...

  39. The Bloodbath on November 4

    → Ace of Spades HQ | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:09 pm MDT

    Getting ahead of myself, but let's dream: Easy victory for McCain-Palin, in which they pick the pockets of the Democrats and steal three or four formerly blue states (Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, maybe New Mexico); Media utterly destroys its remaining...

  40. Palin Finalized 20-Year Quest for Pipeline Deal in First 20 Months

    → CNSNews.com Headlines | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:00 pm MDT

    In her first 20 months as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin completed a deal for a natural gas pipeline that had been a top economic goal for the state for nearly two decades.

  41. Venezuela To Host Russian Naval Exercises

    → Support Your Local Gunfighter | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:00 pm MDT

    Will someone please remind me why anyone in this country does business with this frakkin’ jackass? If there was a God, Citgo would go out of business from lack of interest. This, my friends, is why we need to drill! Unfortunately, it’s not that kind of country anymore. CARACAS (Reuters) - Several Russian ships and [...]

  42. Snookered

    → Don Surber | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:00 pm MDT

      New York Times hypes a soft feature as an expose to get Drudge action.

  43. Comment du jour

    → Don Surber | 7 Sep 2008 | 5:45 pm MDT

    On a post about Democratic Sen. Barack Obama saying he once thought about joining the military, Harvey: “Whose military did Obama consider joining?”

  44. Nuts and Sluts Defense, Part II: Crazy McCain's Crazy Temper Is a Crazy-Train Taking us to Crazyville (Population: Mindcontrol Zepellin-Rape Bugs!)

    → Ace of Spades HQ | 7 Sep 2008 | 5:34 pm MDT

    No doubt about it, McCain is a right prick. (Or not-right prick, which is the annoying part.) So, Sarah the Slut didn't catch on, and now the media is going with McCain the Maniac. How's Obama's sexual history? How about...

  45. Quick count

    → Don Surber | 7 Sep 2008 | 5:00 pm MDT

    Canada’s PM Stephen Harper uses the American election to sneak through a quick election of his own.

  46. Shock: Sarah Palin Secretly the Father of Playboy Bunny's Baby

    → Ace of Spades HQ | 7 Sep 2008 | 4:54 pm MDT

    You can either believe that, or you can believe the "official story," which is that it's David Spade's kid. Which is more absurd? Actually, it's not absurd at all. David Spade has always gotten more ass than Proctologists Without Borders...

  47. Fat-Assed American Al Qaeda Adam Gadahn Dies Peacefully of Adult-Onset Diabetes and Adult-Onset Hellfire Missile, But Mostly Adult-Onset Hellfire Missile

    → Ace of Spades HQ | 7 Sep 2008 | 4:39 pm MDT

    Interesting. The CIA equipped a missile with advanced sensors that zeroed in on his "Taco Bell fart signature," and scored a kill. Maybe. It's unconfirmed, just suspected due to the curious silence of this husky-sized Koranic Chatty Kathy, best known...

  48. Weekly Standard Smears Palin as Scandi-Lover

    → Ace of Spades HQ | 7 Sep 2008 | 4:01 pm MDT

    I've linked this before -- but deep in my soul I prayed it was a photoshop. Surely a candidate for Vice President would not be so obscene as to allow herself to be photographed with Scandi-ite perverts, penguin-humpers, and icebacks,...

  49. Daily scoreboard

    → Don Surber | 7 Sep 2008 | 4:00 pm MDT

    Are you ready for some football?

  50. Barack Obama Questions McCain's Patriotism: "The strange question is why John McCain insists on continuing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory" in Iraq

    → Ace of Spades HQ | 7 Sep 2008 | 3:48 pm MDT

    That is precious. That is rich. That's some weird, wild stuff. McCain is trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. By winning the war 'n shit. Hokay. And note that when this charge was leveled at Obama --...

  51. Andrew Sullivan: “The Softer Side Of a F–ing Redneck”

    → Dr. Melissa Clouthier | 7 Sep 2008 | 3:18 pm MDT

    I haven’t linked Andrew Sullivan in over a year. Way before he demonstrated his despicable Obamasmic homoerotica and Palin-hate (she is, after all, a fecund breeder, gays don’t despise them at all–how’s that for a sweeping stereotype, Andrew?), Sullivan proved himself farcical. But, people still listen to him. He blogs for The Atlantic, don’t you [...]

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  52. O'Reilly vs. Obama on Taxes, ANWR

    → Ace of Spades HQ | 7 Sep 2008 | 3:09 pm MDT

    Eh. O'Reilly's jocular style here (and his pbvious delight that The One finally agreed to talk to him) has the effect of letting Obama off the hook, I think. And of course Maverick agrees with Obama on ANWR. The only...

  53. Football, Baby

    → Ace of Spades HQ | 7 Sep 2008 | 2:53 pm MDT

    Again, I totally forgot the season started (well, for most teams) today. Palinmania has made me stupid....

  54. Applebaum: Sarah Brings an End to the Clinton Era

    → Ace of Spades HQ | 7 Sep 2008 | 2:41 pm MDT

    She calls it the Clinton era but only talks about Hillary. Teh bitch factor? More than that: she became the archetype of the Powerful American Woman. She herself once explained the hostility she inspires as the misdirected fury of men...

  55. Barack Obama Cites His Muslim Faith

    → Support Your Local Gunfighter | 7 Sep 2008 | 2:00 pm MDT

    FUMBLE!!!!! Gaffe-y Duck strikes again: Now, before the usual suspects well up with tears, I want to make this clear: I do not think Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim. He does, however, have major issues speaking off the cuff - at least as many as John McCain. That being said, notice how quickly ABC’s [...]

  56. Who slung the mud

    → Don Surber | 7 Sep 2008 | 1:30 pm MDT

    In their convention speeches, the Democrats mentioned their opponents 34 times. The Republicans just 7 times.

  57. Obama’s Off-Base Base

    → Dr. Melissa Clouthier | 7 Sep 2008 | 1:24 pm MDT

    Considering all the vile smears, stunning lies, and sheer stupidity of the recent attacks against Sarah Palin, it seems like it would be wise to pause and spend a little time getting inside the heads of those who 1) would believe such feather-brained nonsense and 2) breathlessly share the nonsense as if God-Himself revealed the [...]

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  58. [UPDATE] New Gallup Poll Shows McCain Leading; Tied In Others

    → The Partisan Report | 7 Sep 2008 | 1:14 pm MDT

    Recent polling as of September 6 shows the race has changed again. Obama’s semi-bounce seems to be all but over and now McCain appears to be the enjoying the momentum. As recently as September 4, Obama enjoyed a 7 point lead. Not the case now. Undoubtedly, Palin’s arrival to the ticket has added a whole new [...]

  59. The Race Tightens Up

    → Pajamas Media | 7 Sep 2008 | 1:01 pm MDT

    No wonder Obama is moving closer to McCain on the issues rather than vice versa.

  60. Democats Literally Throw Out The American Flag But Don’t Question Their Patriotism

    → Dr. Melissa Clouthier | 7 Sep 2008 | 1:01 pm MDT

    Democrats throw out 12,000 American flags after the DNC. Republicans recycle them.

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  61. Poll

    → PoliPundit.com | 7 Sep 2008 | 12:53 pm MDT

    Gallup Tracking: McCain leads 48-45. Before the Republican convention, Obama led by 49-42.

  62. Sarah Palin The Racist–Updated

    → Dr. Melissa Clouthier | 7 Sep 2008 | 12:09 pm MDT

    You think the Left can't go any lower, and then they do.

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  63. Joe Biden: Heavily Vetted, Which Is Why We Question Obama’s Judgment

    → Dr. Melissa Clouthier | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:17 am MDT

    The heavily vetted loose cannon, my friend and yours, Joe Biden.

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  64. Gallup: McCain 48, Obama 45

    → Don Surber | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am MDT

    Republican Sen. John McCain erases an 8-point lead in just 5 days.

  65. Understanding Palin

    → PoliPundit.com | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:47 am MDT

    Here's a must-read article if you want to understand Sarah Palin. Show your support!

  66. Books Sarah Palin Never Banned

    → Dr. Melissa Clouthier | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:40 am MDT

    Big Bad Barracuda Bans Books.....NOT!

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  67. It’s Sunday

    → Support Your Local Gunfighter | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:00 am MDT

    That means it’s time to do the Lord’s work. And who better to do the Lord’s work than the men and women of the U.S. armed forces? RT has her Sunday Song every week. Personally, my Sunday song is the sweet sounds of the A-10 Warthog. Enjoy! (H/T - The Jawa Report)

  68. Government logic

    → Don Surber | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:00 am MDT

    The failure of government-run hospitals is the fault of the private sector.

  69. Fisk's footwork

    → normblog | 7 Sep 2008 | 8:35 am MDT

    If you can see beyond the constant reference by him to his own good self, you might like to have a look at this column by Robert Fisk. The piece concerns the welcome accorded to Samir Kuntar on his return...

  70. Helping the Cause in the Garden State

    → CWA-NJ Conservatives with Attitude! | 7 Sep 2008 | 7:31 am MDT

    About 150 conservatives from across the state of New Jersey gathered in Teaneck yesterday to learn how to advance our cause through the internet as the alternative to the leftist dominated main stream media.  The event was put together by Steve Lonegan and Americans for Prosperity in conjunction with Rightonline; another example of how Lonegan [...]

  71. 2008 Races: Marriage-Absence Ignored

    → American Daily - Phoenix, AZ | 7 Sep 2008 | 7:15 am MDT

    America's most urgent home-front problem went entirely unaddressed at both the Democratic and Republican conventions. This is very bad news for the plebiscite for billions of reasons.

  72. Auschwitz for a greater good?

    → normblog | 7 Sep 2008 | 7:13 am MDT

    I watched Frank Cottrell Boyce's God on Trial on BBC2 last week, and found it a powerful piece of drama. It explored in a compelling way many of the responses, both theological and sceptical, to the question of God's 'whereabouts'...

  73. Churchill's Ministry of Peace

    → American Daily - Phoenix, AZ | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:53 am MDT

    Ward Churchill, a former ethnic studies professor at the University of Colorado (UC), may have been fired after a UC investigation revealed his plagiarism and poor scholarship, but some anti-war outlets still court the controversial professor’s company.

  74. 'Gun Control: Is It to Be Trusted?'

    → American Daily - Phoenix, AZ | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:47 am MDT

    Certainly arguments can be raised that no criminal or mentally unbalanced individual should have access to guns. Between 1,500 and 2,000 deaths occur each year through the use of firearms.

  75. Use of Force Against RNC Protesters 'Disproportionate,' Charges Amnesty Int'l

    → American Daily - Phoenix, AZ | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:42 am MDT

    The cleaning crews hadn't even started their work in St. Paul following the end of the Republican Convention, when the knee-jerk leftists at Amnesty International released their statement accusing police officers of using excessive force against the misfits and miscreants creating havoc outside of the convention center.

  76. Iran still in the US Crosshairs

    → American Daily - Phoenix, AZ | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:32 am MDT

    How much more diplomacy with Iran before the Mad Mullahs slam Israel with a nuclear tipped missile?

  77. Finally, We are back to Conservatism vs.Liberalism

    → American Daily - Phoenix, AZ | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:18 am MDT

    With the selection of Sarah Palin as Vice President Candidate on the Republican ticket, the presidential race is less about Democrat vs. Republican, than it is about Liberal vs. Conservative. Democrats and Republicans both agree that Washington is "broken" and both sides want "change."

  78. Don’t ever forget, resentment works

    → The Partisan Report | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:15 am MDT

    Right now my new president is Richard Nixon. Earlier this year I started with TR followed by George Washington. And I decided I’m going to close out the year with Nixon. So it’s only fitting that I came across this New York Times article The Resentment Strategy that sums itself up by saying. Can Mr. McCain [...]

  79. Gustav, God, and Michael Moore: Validations of a Criminal Profile

    → American Daily - Phoenix, AZ | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:14 am MDT

    In the summer of 2007, I constructed a profile and analysis on Michael Moore that illuminated the sociopathic tendencies that encompass the actions of one of the most infamous documentary creators of modern times. Within the article, Michael Moore: A Criminal Profile, which was first released in the New Media Journal and then later around the world, I took careful pains to make sure that readers understood that Moore carries the tendencies of the sociopath while not accusing him of the crimes that some sociopaths actually commit. The thrust of the article was to introduce people to the moral wasteland in which the sociopath lives and operates. Oh course, this caused somewhat of a ruckus among Moore lackeys and those who enjoy the anti-American sales pitch he throws out with each new theatrical falsehood he creates. Unfortunately, for those who wish to defend Moore, for whatever their motivation, there is one factor they will never be able to overcome; That is, the mouth of Michael Moore.

  80. Taxpayers to be made to pay for corrupt GSEs’ lending mistakes

    → PoliPundit.com | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:10 am MDT

    Well, McCain and Obama both opposed a taxpayer bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Just before Labor Day, Sen. Obama derided Fannie and Freddie as a “weird blend,” advocating that “If these are public entities, then they’ve got to get out of the profit-making business, and if they’re private ...

  81. Babes Of The 50 States

    → Support Your Local Gunfighter | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:00 am MDT

    Today’s babe is Chicago-born hottie and former Playmate of the Year Jenny McCarthy. Apparently, Illinois can pump out some decent babe-age. Good for them. This from Wikipedia: McCarthy was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her father is of Irish descent and her mother is of German descent. McCarthy comes from a middle-class Catholic family that lived [...]

  82. Jawing Joe, How Low Can He Go?

    → Common Sense Junction | 7 Sep 2008 | 5:41 am MDT

    I get a slimy feeling when Jawing Joe Biden comes on my TV before I can get my hand on the remote control and this is an example of what the sleazy low-life has been doing for the last 35 years that causes that feeling. Via SUGAR @ Sugar N Spice: Joe Biden and the Lies About [...]

  83. Comic Relief At Sugar N Spice

    → Common Sense Junction | 7 Sep 2008 | 5:30 am MDT

    I got a good hearty laugh out of this video that a YouTube user put together called, “Barack Obama Gets Knocked the F*** Out by McCain”, so I thought I would share in the event you dear reader may have a wicked sense of humor like my own. I think that the video is hilarious [...]

  84. The Momma 'n' Daddy Collection 102

    → normblog | 7 Sep 2008 | 5:14 am MDT

    One thing I've had in mind now for a while is to get Bob Dylan into this Momma 'n' Daddy series. I know it's mainly a country music collection. But that matters less than having the Bob included. So this...

  85. Democrats For NOBama

    → Common Sense Junction | 7 Sep 2008 | 5:10 am MDT

    I went looking for Democrat Web sites that may now be leaning to McCain - Palin. I soon found a gold mine at Uppity Woman. She’s pretty miffed at the misogynist in the Obama camp and the DNC who treated Hillary like an old shoe. Most of the links in Uppity’s blogroll are Hillary supporters [...]

  86. Jordan Prepares To Prevent West Bank Collapse

    → American Daily - Phoenix, AZ | 7 Sep 2008 | 4:58 am MDT

    ("You know its just one small step from legacy to lame duck” - Bill Clinton) - President George Bush, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Mahmoud Abbas are clearing their desks as they prepare to vacate their positions of power and influence - now having virtually assumed caretaker roles as lame ducks until their replacements are known within the next few months.

  87. Obama served with lawsuit challenging his citizenship and right to be candidate

    → The Partisan Report | 7 Sep 2008 | 4:46 am MDT

    This never seemed to make the press as part of the coverage at the DNC. Of course, afterwards the airwaves were thoroughly occupied by Gov. Palin’s scandalous “babygate” situation. At any rate, not sure at this point if the campaign will ever comment on this or not. The blogosphere moves a few weeks faster than [...]

  88. No Grace For Liberals

    → American Daily - Phoenix, AZ | 7 Sep 2008 | 2:38 am MDT

    My wife, who I always run my weekly articles by, said this article sounded preachy. That is sort of the point. If you are one of my regular readers, you know that I have no qualms about being blunt - which also happens to sound "preachy" at times. But maybe, considering this week's article is about aspects of the Christian faith it may be a little more preachy than usual. If you think it is too preachy, then oh well! If discussion of Christianity bothers you, then double oh well.

  89. Palin Scrutinized — Obama Gets a Pass

    → Pajamas Media | 7 Sep 2008 | 2:34 am MDT

    The media that is so curious about Palin and family refrains from invading Obama’s space.

  90. Why Did He Pick Sarah Palin? It’s the Drilling, Stupid

    → Pajamas Media | 7 Sep 2008 | 1:30 am MDT

    McCain chose her not because she's a woman, but because she's a woman who knows about energy.

  91. The Rehabilitation of Bashar Assad

    → Pajamas Media | 7 Sep 2008 | 1:07 am MDT

    A real transformation or deceptive new packaging?

  92. The Coming Civil War in America: Blue vs. Red

    → Pajamas Media | 7 Sep 2008 | 1:07 am MDT

    Two radically different world views and two completely separate cultures.

  93. Swaziland’s King Mswati III: Idiot

    → Support Your Local Gunfighter | 6 Sep 2008 | 10:00 pm MDT

    Yeah, that’s right; keep waving, moron. Eventually, you’ll get yours. MBABANE, Swaziland — The Swazi king, dressed in traditional leopard skins and whisked around in an open-topped BMW, celebrated his 40th birthday and his nation’s 40th independence day with lavish glee Saturday — hosting an extravaganza that contrasted sharply with the biting poverty of his [...]

  94. Palin Video

    → PoliPundit.com | 6 Sep 2008 | 6:37 pm MDT

    Why just read about Palin when you can watch video! And here's a McCain ad that directly contrasts Palin and Obama.

  95. In His Own Words

    → PoliPundit.com | 6 Sep 2008 | 6:05 pm MDT

    The McCain-Palin ad team should run this video of Barack in his own words as a 60-second ad. They only need to tack on the, "Who is Barack Obama?" at the beginning and "I'm John McCain and I approved this message" at the end.   Now on ...

  96. Babes Of The 50 States

    → Support Your Local Gunfighter | 6 Sep 2008 | 6:00 pm MDT

    Okay, it’s official: Idaho has the fewest number of famous babes of any state I have profiled so far. I narrowed it down to two hotties: classic starlet Lana Turner, and WWE Dive Torrie Wilson. Guess which one I chose? This from Wikipedia: Wilson was born in Boise, Idaho, and she claims that she was [...]

  97. Obama claims copyright infringement on “Change”

    → The Partisan Report | 6 Sep 2008 | 5:24 pm MDT

    Senator Obama objected to McCain’s claim the he would be the one bringing change to Washington.   Obama — taking umbrage at his opponents’ claims that he is all talk and that they would deliver true reform to Washington — urged voters not to be “fooled” by the McCain campaign’s declarations. “I mean come on, they must think [...]

  98. Memory Making

    → Dr. Melissa Clouthier | 6 Sep 2008 | 4:32 pm MDT

    Glenn Reynolds muses about memory: My question is, why is there so much room? I was listening to Santana’s Moonflower in the car a while ago, which I’ve barely listened to since college, and not only did I realize that all the licks were stored in my brain, I actually found myself noticing when skips that [...]

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  99. Crowd Cheers McCain And Palin

    → Common Sense Junction | 6 Sep 2008 | 3:43 pm MDT

    UPDATED COLORADO SPRINGS — In just the second day of campaigning together, Republican Presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, gave a command performance of their convention week speeches to a crowd of more than 10,000 here. McCain and Palin hit popular notes from their big-stage speeches by promising to rein in government spending, [...]

  100. Death from above

    → PoliPundit.com | 6 Sep 2008 | 3:27 pm MDT

    Predator drones are cool: Months of attacks by unmanned US predator aircraft have caused carnage among the middle ranks of terrorist leaders in the lawless lands along the border with Afghanistan, where al-Qa'eda remains dangerous despite suffering a serious defeat in Iraq. Their victims have included experienced Arab leaders and, it is ...

  101. Sarah Palin’s Affair

    → Dr. Melissa Clouthier | 6 Sep 2008 | 2:46 pm MDT

    Home wrecker, hussy, and all around scandal-ridden, Sarah Palin.

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  102. Noonan’s Take

    → PoliPundit.com | 6 Sep 2008 | 2:07 pm MDT

    Peggy Noonan sums up what Palin did at the convention:No one has ever really laid a glove on Obama before, not in this campaign and maybe not in his life. But Palin really damaged him. She took him square on, fearlessly, by which I mean in part that she showed ...

  103. VIDEO: Is Chris Matthews Sexist?

    → Patrick J. Buchanan - Official Website | 6 Sep 2008 | 1:06 pm MDT

    Pat Buchanan Owns Matthews in Explosive Showdown! Chris Matthews gets OWNED (i.e. punked or destroyed) by Pat Buchanan on Hardball — extra video context and history - Video by John D. Villarreal

  104. Detroit Rock City

    → Support Your Local Gunfighter | 6 Sep 2008 | 1:00 pm MDT

    Embattled Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pled guilty yesterday to two felony counts of obstruction of justice and resigned from his position as the worst mayor on planet Earth. Unfortunately for the citizens of Detroit, the resignation came about six years too late. And now, they have to dig themselves out of the gigantic hole “Hizzoner” [...]

  105. How to Start Each Day With a Positive Outlook

    → Patrick J. Buchanan - Official Website | 6 Sep 2008 | 12:59 pm MDT

    Received this via email. Not sure who wrote it, but thought it was worth adding to our site… How to Start Each Day With a Positive Outlook 1. Open a new file in your computer. 2. Name it ‘Barack Obama’. 3. Send it to the Recycle Bin. 4. Empty the Recycle Bin. 5. Your PC will ask you: ‘Do you really [...]

  106. Palin Draws Crowds

    → PoliPundit.com | 6 Sep 2008 | 11:31 am MDT

    The Palin Effect:As he touched down in suburbs outside of Milwaukee and Detroit, the just-crowned Republican nominee found himself first on the newly fashioned signs proclaiming the unlikely GOP ticket, but seemingly second in the hearts of the thousands who thronged rallies to catch their first glimpse in person of ...

  107. Barack Obama’s Rise…And Fall?–UPDATED

    → Dr. Melissa Clouthier | 6 Sep 2008 | 11:27 am MDT

    Why does it seem like Obama has already lost?

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  108. McCain and Pro-Lifers

    → CWA-NJ Conservatives with Attitude! | 6 Sep 2008 | 10:28 am MDT

    From the paleoconservative leader and great scholar Thomas Fleming, who edits Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, one of the finest publications out there: “Let me put some poorly concealed cards on the table.  I do not intend to vote for John McCain.  He has only one qualification that I can see and that is the [...]

  109. Saracuda’s First Day As Governor

    → Common Sense Junction | 6 Sep 2008 | 7:30 am MDT

    Gary @ California Conservative adds a new page to Sarah Palin’s rapidly expanding CV. This anecdote is special: Since Hurricane Sarah swept the Lower 48, we’ve been hit with a downpour of information and misinformation about Gov. Palin. It’s time we learned with the people of Alaska think of her. That’s why I loved reading this [...]

  110. Lynton?

    → normblog | 6 Sep 2008 | 7:02 am MDT

    There's only one senior Labour figure who could cut the Tory party's present lead. That's according to a new poll. Who is it? Well I never.

  111. Photo documents of Barry Soetoro: Indonesian Citizen?

    → The Partisan Report | 6 Sep 2008 | 6:12 am MDT

    This thing isn’t going away folks and it just keeps getting deeper. A lawyer has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Pennsylvania challenging Sen. Barack Obama’s U.S. citizenship, and that Obama is ineligible to be president. The AP caption reads: “This registration document, made available on Jan. 24, 2007, by the Fransiskus Assisi school in [...]

  112. The slippery slope of nationalizing

    → The Partisan Report | 6 Sep 2008 | 6:04 am MDT

    Just where will this end up? I can tell you where, towards a very expensive future. That’s why Forbes says to Let Economies Cure Themselves The word that gets applied to this is “bailout,” but a more accurate term would be “expropriation” — that is, the taking of a private asset by the government. If government [...]

  113. Another Sad Day For The Philadelphia Police

    → Support Your Local Gunfighter | 6 Sep 2008 | 6:00 am MDT

    One of our own was killed in the line of duty last night. This makes four line of duty deaths in the last two years. PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) ― A Philadelphia Police officer died after being involved in a car crash Friday evening. A second officer is in stable condition. The accident happened at the intersection [...]

  114. Yesterday’s Sample

    → CWA-NJ Conservatives with Attitude! | 5 Sep 2008 | 6:41 pm MDT

    Gallup by late this afternoon has Obama up 4 (48 - 44), that’s down 4 points from a few days ago and only includes surveys though early last evening. Rasmussen’s organization suggests a closer race of 2 points (48 - 46 with ‘leaners’), including only one day of samples after the Palin speech . Assuming no [...]

  115. WTF?Which should be titled Whittle is back!With updates (lots of them)

    → Rachel Lucas | 5 Sep 2008 | 5:52 pm MDT

    Something went very, very wrong in the last post I tried to publish, the one referring to Sarahcuda as v-i-a-g-r-a, and linking to Whittle’s new essays. I have no idea what it was. Even after removing the MSNBC video, still no go. (People trying to comment were given a 404 error and some [...]

  116. GOP Convention’s Winning Video

    → Common Sense Junction | 5 Sep 2008 | 5:03 pm MDT

    Piper Palin, the baby sitter: addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commonsensejunction.com%2F%3Fp%3D4091'; addthis_title = 'GOP+Convention%26%238217%3Bs+Winning+Video'; addthis_pub = '';

  117. When America's Communities Need Organizing, America's Community Organizers Will Be There to Organize Them

    → iowahawk | 5 Sep 2008 | 3:54 pm MDT

    By David BurgePresidential CandidateProfessional Community Organizer Organizing community youths: Dave's passion When I listened to the snarky and demeaning and condescending remarks of former beauty pageant loser Sarah Palin at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night, I could scarcely believe...

  118. McCain Wins Ratings Race

    → CWA-NJ Conservatives with Attitude! | 5 Sep 2008 | 2:00 pm MDT

    John McCain has won the TV ratings race. The GOP nominee beat Democratic challenger Barack Obama’s record-setting convention speech viewership by 500,000, reports the Hollywood Reporter and Nielsen Ratings. McCain’s address at the Republican National Convention was seen by about 38.9 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. Obama received 38.4 million. That means McCain’s speech is now the [...]

  119. An Obama Success Story

    → CWA-NJ Conservatives with Attitude! | 5 Sep 2008 | 1:23 pm MDT

    Now I know we have been bashing Obama for awhile now, but when accomplishments of his come up in the news they should be acknowledged. Please Read this Obama Success Story from his work in Chicago: “CHICAGO (CBS) ― An estimated 125 people were shot and killed over the summer. That’s nearly double the number of soldiers [...]

  120. Hydrocephalus WALK For Cole is This Sunday

    → CWA-NJ Conservatives with Attitude! | 5 Sep 2008 | 11:46 am MDT

    Final Reminder: HydroWALK 2008 “The Fight To Save Cole” HydroWALK NJ 2008 is this Sunday, September 7th. We are well on our way to reaching our goal of $50,000 with over $33,000 already collected in donations and close to 200 people registered to attend the event. Please make your donation today to the Hydrocephalus Association, by [...]

  121. Rangel Did Not Pay Interest on Mortgage

    → CWA-NJ Conservatives with Attitude! | 5 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am MDT

    Photo from the NY Post. Did you have to pay interest on your mortgage?  Does elected office pay off? A lawyer for Rep. Charles Rangel says the powerful House committee chairman paid no mortgage interest on a beach resort property for about 15 years. The New York Democrat’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, tells The Associated Press that Rangel’s no-interest [...]

  122. Oh, how I love Texas.

    → Rachel Lucas | 5 Sep 2008 | 10:02 am MDT

    I knew I should’ve checked email before tossing up a random dog post! This is much, much better. Reader Amy sent me this article about some shitheads and the bad-ass couple with whom they tried to tussle, and it all happens in my general neck of the woods, which gives me a tingle [...]

  123. O Says NO to Palin

    → CWA-NJ Conservatives with Attitude! | 5 Sep 2008 | 9:32 am MDT

    No, not Barack Obama, but the original “O”, as in Oprah Winfrey, who is fighting tooth and nail with her staff and her own viewing audience against inviting Sarah Palin as a guest on her program. Already pissing off much of her audience in bringing politics and her support for Obama onto her program during [...]

  124. Sarahcuda’s great and all, but let’s get back to what’s really important. My dog Margaret.

    → Rachel Lucas | 5 Sep 2008 | 9:24 am MDT

    I’ve binged so hard on the news and reading blogs and following comments all week that I think I just might pass out if I don’t take a break. You too? Anyone else sense that the Right is bordering on actual priapism at this point? It’s totally justified, but still. So how [...]

  125. Eight shouts for moral reasoning

    → normblog | 5 Sep 2008 | 9:11 am MDT

    The other day I registered what I take to be a weakness in the classical Marxist tradition, its failure to give 'explicit or independent weight to the political importance of moral principles'. Chris thinks there's much to be said for...

  126. Sarah-cuda Ready To Mix It Up?

    → Common Sense Junction | 5 Sep 2008 | 8:47 am MDT

    Unlike Barack Obama, Sarah Palin has a provable public service track record. A previous post had a video with the consequences of an MSNBC reporter trying to play gotcha with Newt Gingrich. The reporter’s naivety provoked Newt to cite a list of Palin’s major achievements. Some viewers said they couldn’t play the video (at the office? [...]

  127. PJB: Distant Drums at Sarah’s Party

    → Patrick J. Buchanan - Official Website | 5 Sep 2008 | 8:38 am MDT

    by Patrick J. Buchanan ST. PAUL, Minn. — The American Right has just died and gone to heaven. Last night’s convention address by Sarah Palin here in St. Paul has confirmed the bold decision of John McCain to choose the Alaska governor as his co-pilot and united the Republican Party as it has not been since the [...]

  128. A fairly clear course

    → normblog | 5 Sep 2008 | 5:57 am MDT

    Raymond Chandler writing to his publishers:Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter...

  129. Burma famine (by Ian Holliday)

    → normblog | 5 Sep 2008 | 5:35 am MDT

    Humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Burma's Chin State. Early this year, a rare species of bamboo that flowers roughly every half-century produced a bumper harvest of fruit and seed eaten mainly by rats. For several months now, a super-breed of...

  130. Barone: “A Star Is Born”

    → Common Sense Junction | 5 Sep 2008 | 5:33 am MDT

    Michael Barone in U.S. News: Sarah Palin’s speech to the Republican National Convention last night [night before last now] was a home run. A star was born. While the Obama campaign has attempted to disparage it by saying that it was written by a former George W. Bush speechwriter, Matthew Scully—and thus link it to the [...]

  131. Obama Aims Big Guns At Palin

    → Common Sense Junction | 5 Sep 2008 | 5:27 am MDT

    • Obama plans to unleash females like Hillary Clinton, Janet Napolitano and Kathleen Sebelius to attack Palin. • Via Doug Ross, the intrepid Mark Steyn: I would like to thank the US media for doing such a grand job this last week of lowering expectations by portraying Governor Palin - whoops, I mean Hick-Burg Mayor Palin - [...]

  132. Collider rap: world not going to end

    → normblog | 5 Sep 2008 | 4:38 am MDT

    I'm just doing my bit here to help spread scientific knowledge. Not that I understand the thing myself, but let me direct you to...THISFurther stuff about it here and here. (Thanks: LK.)

  133. The normblog profile 259: Jen Bradford

    → normblog | 5 Sep 2008 | 3:54 am MDT

    Jen Bradford was born in Portland, Maine, in 1966. She lived in Scotland for four years, where she earned an MA in Art History from St Andrews University in 1988. She later studied painting at Maine College of Art. Jen...

  134. Obama Camp Plays the Nazi Card

    → Patrick J. Buchanan - Official Website | 4 Sep 2008 | 7:28 pm MDT

    By Joe Murray - The Bulletin The Obama camp has raised the eyebrows of the media and scorn of the GOP by supporting the comments uttered by Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla., in which he alleges Sarah Palin is a “Nazi sympathizer.” “John McCain’s decision to select a vice presidential running mate that endorsed Pat Buchanan for president [...]

  135. Americans for Prosperity Holding RightOnline Training Seminar in Teaneck

    → CWA-NJ Conservatives with Attitude! | 4 Sep 2008 | 4:56 pm MDT

    Americans for Prosperity - NJ, led by New Jersey’s Mayor, Steve Lonegan, and RightOnline.com will be hosting a one day, all day, seminar on cutting edge training in online activism. Held at the Glenpointe Marriott in Teaneck, NJ, the seminar features many of America’s leading experts in new media and grassroots mobilization. Learn how you can utilize [...]

  136. Palin makes me want to dance.

    → Rachel Lucas | 4 Sep 2008 | 3:42 pm MDT

    Don’t have enough time to do anything but read all the comments (y’all are on fire) and make this: Just to show how big an internet/blog dork I am, when my chemistry professor walked in the room today, I half-expected him to say, “So how ’bout that Palin!? WOOOOO!!!” He did not. I [...]

  137. Best Quotes from Sarah Palin’s Acceptance Speech

    → CWA-NJ Conservatives with Attitude! | 4 Sep 2008 | 3:22 pm MDT

    I know everybody’s already talking (and raving) about it, but I figure I’d capture some of my favorite highlights from Sarah Palin’s blow-out acceptance speech last night. With the whole country watching to see if she, as a newcomer to Washington, would pass the test, Palin exceeded expectations and left her audience and even [...]

  138. Conservatives hyped over Palin

    → EagleForum.org | 4 Sep 2008 | 9:03 am MDT

    ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Sarah Palin has done in five days what John McCain has never been able to do — fire up the Republican Party's conservative base.

    The No. 2 on the GOP ticket clearly impressed the party faithful Wednesday as she smoothly moved from lavishing praise on McCain — "a true profile in courage" who has "determination, resolve, and sheer guts" — to throwing punches at Democratic rival Barack Obama.

    Associated Press

  139. The "LIFE of the Party" PARTY

    → EagleForum.org | 4 Sep 2008 | 8:46 am MDT

    Sept. 2, 2008

    Encountered protesters, cancellations . . .

  140. Sarahcuda speech open thread.With updates

    → Rachel Lucas | 3 Sep 2008 | 10:20 pm MDT

    I just watched the Palin RNC convention speech, and I am enchanted. She’s serious without being scary. Sarcastic without being nasty. Not to mention, her accent charmed my pants right off. I blurted out loud at one point to Rupert, “Oh my god! I’m naming all of my children after her!” [...]

  141. “I was thinking we’d start our day with a morning hunt, followed by a prayer, and then a policy meeting.“

    → Rachel Lucas | 3 Sep 2008 | 5:34 pm MDT

    Sarahcuda* has not only spurred certain factions on the left to great new heights of dishonesty, hatred, and rumor-mongering, she’s also bringing out the kind of hilarity and appropriate nut-punching that I’ve missed on the internet lately. Three items for your review: First and best, via Althouse, a comedy video imagining the phone call from [...]

  142. So say we all.

    → Rachel Lucas | 3 Sep 2008 | 3:31 pm MDT

    Just saw this at Ace of Spades. Heh. Snorf. Awesome. There’s even a Tigh/Roslin ‘08 blog, too. And how about: Hillary Clinton = Doc Cottle John Edwards = Six George Dubya Bush/Karl Rove = BaseStar Ship/Hybrid I wish I had more time, I’d find pics and do this right. God, I [...]

  143. You should of “paid” more “attention” to book’s in skool. UPDATED with someone bustin’ my chops

    → Rachel Lucas | 3 Sep 2008 | 2:07 pm MDT

    It’s no secret amongst those who know me that I’m a total asshole when it comes to spelling, punctuation, and grammar mistakes. Never in my life have I insulted anyone to their** face…except over this issue. It’s a personal failing and a character flaw that I just can’t overcome, mostly because I don’t [...]

  144. America Speaks Out: "Juno" in Juneau?

    → iowahawk | 3 Sep 2008 | 1:25 pm MDT

    Controversy continues to engulf the McCain campaign in the wake of revelations that VP candidate Sarah Palin's 17-year old unwed daughter is pregnant. Will Bristol's bastard bun-in-the-oven sink McCain's moose-murdering MILF -- and his campaign along with it? To find...

  145. I continue to be impressed with the dignity and intelligence of the Palin-haters.

    → Rachel Lucas | 3 Sep 2008 | 10:35 am MDT

    And don’t forget gravitas. And nuance. Ace of Spades has some of the Daily Kos comments that prove once and for all that they care more about the country than anyone else. DON’T QUESTION THEIR PATRIOTISM. “If health insurance for all, an end to the Iraq War, an end to torture [...]

  146. PJB: Johnny’s Got a New Girl

    → Patrick J. Buchanan - Official Website | 2 Sep 2008 | 11:49 pm MDT

    by Patrick J. Buchanan The risk John McCain took last Friday is comparable to the 72-year-old ex-fighter pilot knocking back two shots and flying his F-16 under the Golden Gate Bridge. McCain’s choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his co-pilot was the biggest gamble in presidential history. As of now, it is paying off, big-time. The [...]

  147. Schlafly Chides McCain Camp for Palin Cancellation

    → EagleForum.org | 2 Sep 2008 | 2:08 pm MDT

    ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: Conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly is taking the McCain campaign to task for notifying her at the last-minute that Sarah Palin will be a no-show on Tuesday when the Republican National Coalition for Life holds an event honoring the Alaska governor.

    ABCnews.com, 9-02-08

  148. WebNote: Site Problems

    → Patrick J. Buchanan - Official Website | 1 Sep 2008 | 8:05 pm MDT

    Just a quick note to let you know why the site appears off-kilter. Three weeks ago we were hacked. Solved that problem, removed all the porn, and resumed as usual. Two weeks ago, we were hacked again and they loaded malicious code on our site. I re-wrote the site php code from the bottom up, [...]

  149. A Feminine Force, But Don't Call Her A Feminist

    → EagleForum.org | 1 Sep 2008 | 12:17 pm MDT

    The story of Phyllis Schlafly's life can be read in the gold charms that dangle from the necklace draped around her neck.

    NationalJournal, 9-01-08

  150. The Idiossey

    → iowahawk | 29 Aug 2008 | 7:23 pm MDT

    The Not-Really-That-Epic Poem of Obamacles (with Apologies to Homer) Book the First: A question for the Muse Speak to me, O Muse, of this resourceful manwho strides so boldly upon the golden shrine at Invescos,Between Ionic plywood columns, to the...

  151. Conservative Women Rule, 8-29-08

    → EagleForum.org | 29 Aug 2008 | 1:50 pm MDT

    ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug 29, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- FRCAction, the legislative advocacy arm of Family Research Council, applauds Senator John McCain's choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate.

    MarketWatch.com, 8-29-08

  152. McCain picks Palin as VP choice, 8-29-08

    → EagleForum.org | 29 Aug 2008 | 10:52 am MDT

    DAYTON, Ohio -- Keeping the secret until the very end, Sen. John McCain on Friday picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, vaulting the 44-year-old former beauty queen to the national stage and setting up a historic race that will end either with the first black president or first female vice president.

    Washington Times, 8-29-08

  153. PJB: And If Obama Loses?

    → Patrick J. Buchanan - Official Website | 29 Aug 2008 | 9:13 am MDT

    By Patrick J. Buchanan DENVER — After the phony roll call vote was taken here to formally nominate Barack Obama — a roll call that did not remotely reflect the true delegate strength of Hillary — the media exploded in an orgy of celebration about the historic character of the moment to which they had just [...]

  154. PJB: Pushing Russia Into the Cold

    → Patrick J. Buchanan - Official Website | 26 Aug 2008 | 8:08 pm MDT

    By Patrick J. Buchanan A year after taking power, in June 1934, Adolf Hitler made his first visit abroad — to his idol Benito Mussolini in Venice. Babbling on incessantly about “Mein Kampf “and the Negroid strain in Mediterranean peoples, the Fuhrer made a dismal impression. “What a clown this Hitler is,” Mussolini told an aide. Two weeks later, [...]

  155. Party Platform, McCain Differ on Immigration, Climate, 8-26-08

    → EagleForum.org | 26 Aug 2008 | 6:14 pm MDT

    Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The Republican Party released a draft of its 2008 platform that differs from candidate John McCain on issues including immigration, stem-cell research and climate change, while endorsing his ideas for economic growth and free trade.

    Read entire article, 8-26-08

  156. Speed Demons

    → iowahawk | 26 Aug 2008 | 4:56 pm MDT

    While in Los Angeles for the Orbitron reveal last weekend, I just missed seeing Bobby Green and Lucky Burton, who were en route back to L.A. from Bonneville where the dynamic duo picked up three more SCTA world speed records...

  157. Obama Pix Hipster Prix to Reclick with Stix Hix

    → iowahawk | 22 Aug 2008 | 12:55 pm MDT

    Rural Michigan-bound Hipster douchebags train in hyperbaric sarcasm chamber at Obama training center Denver - With new polls showing Barack Obama's once-commanding lead over John McCain all but evaporated, the Obama campaign announced today it has begun deploying its vast...

  158. PJB: And None Dare Call It Treason

    → Patrick J. Buchanan - Official Website | 22 Aug 2008 | 8:53 am MDT

    By Patrick J. Buchanan Who is Randy Scheunemann? He is the principal foreign policy adviser to John McCain and potential successor to Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski as national security adviser to the president of the United States. But Randy Scheunemann has another identity, another role. He is a dual loyalist, a foreign agent whose assignment is to get [...]

  159. PJB: Who Started Cold War II?

    → Patrick J. Buchanan - Official Website | 18 Aug 2008 | 10:36 pm MDT

    by Patrick J. Buchanan The American people should be eternally grateful to Old Europe for having spiked the Bush-McCain plan to bring Georgia into NATO. Had Georgia been in NATO when Mikheil Saakashvili invaded South Ossetia, we would be eyeball to eyeball with Russia, facing war in the Caucasus, where Moscow’s superiority is as great as U.S. [...]

  160. Phyllis Schlafly: McCain Pro-Choice VP Pick 'Mistake'

    → EagleForum.org | 15 Aug 2008 | 7:49 am MDT

    Commenting on John McCain's remark that Tom Ridge's pro-choice position would not rule him out as a vice presidential running mate, conservative leader and strongly pro-lifer Phyllis Schlafly got straight to the point by bluntly telling Newsmax, "I think [McCain] would be making a mistake."

    NewsMax.com, 8-14-08

  161. Bagels in Dubai?

    → Daniel Pipes Blog | 14 Aug 2008 | 11:00 pm MDT

    Pictures of the very first Airbus 380 flying from Dubai to New York City show a smiling attendant at the first class bar. Yes, a Persian Gulf airline serves alcohol. But what's really of interest is the plump bagel sitting on the right side of the counter, under a glass top. Bagels are, of course, the Jewish ethnic food that legend holds goes back to 1683 and the defeat of the Turkish army at Vienna. How curious to find them on a maiden A380 voyage of Emirates airline. Incidentally, those

  162. Eagle Forum's 37th Leadership Conference, 8-13-08

    → EagleForum.org | 13 Aug 2008 | 11:28 am MDT

    Partial Agenda now available!

  163. When Phyllis Schlafly met Hans Von Spakovsky, 8-08-08

    → EagleForum.org | 8 Aug 2008 | 8:28 am MDT

    Last evening, the subject was election fraud, the locale was Cardwell’s Restaurant in Clayton, the convener was the St. Louis Chapter of the Federalist Society, the atmosphere was convivial, and the talk was … well … fierce.

    STLtoday.com, 8-08-08

  164. Extra! Leading New York Publisher Spikes Book Dealing with Islam!

    → Daniel Pipes Blog | 7 Aug 2008 | 10:15 pm MDT

    Random House, a unit of Bertelsmann AG, has announced that is has canceled publication of a novel, The Jewel of Medina, by Sherry Jones, that was to be published on August 12. The novel concerns the child wife Aisha of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Random House made no bones about its reasons in doing so, with Deputy Publisher Thomas Perry stating that Random House received "cautionary advice not only that the publication of this book might be offensive to some in the Muslim community, but also

  165. A scandal for Denver?

    → Slate Magazine - Kausfiles | 7 Aug 2008 | 4:50 am MDT

    We're Taking This Thing All the Way to Denver!  Former DNC chief Don Fowler delivers the Democratic grown-ups' message, on the record, as reported in the Charlotte Observer--

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  166. Five Reasons the Media Must Cover the Edwards Scandal

    → Slate Magazine - Kausfiles | 6 Aug 2008 | 11:02 am MDT

    A mostly political Weblog.

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  167. Dissent in the MSM on Edwards.

    → Slate Magazine - Kausfiles | 4 Aug 2008 | 2:31 pm MDT

    The LAT is more like Daily Kos than it wants to admit (and vice versa): The Daily Kos has banned longtime blogger Lee Stranahan for writing calm, clear-headed posts assessing the evidence in the John Edwards scandal--posts saying things like:

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  168. A Final Reply to Yoram Schweitzer

    → Daniel Pipes Blog | 2 Aug 2008 | 11:00 pm MDT

    Yoram Schweitzer has now responded twice to me, and I think it about time to close down his and my exchange, but not before one final, brief reply on my part. (To recapitulate, the sequence, all published in The Jerusalem Post, began on July 21 with my article, "Samir Kuntar and the Last Laugh," which criticized the Israel-Hizbullah exchange; he replied July 24 with "Not That Bad a Deal," disagreeing on specifics and castigating me for even opining on the matter; on July 28, in "May an American

  169. Letters