Sarah Palin sat down with Katie Couric today. The interview comes in two parts. Part I Watch CBS Videos Online Part II (Note that the last minute or so of this one is identical to a minute in the first one): Watch CBS Videos Online For the record: I don't think that Palin did nearly […]
So much for a post-racial, post-partisan campaign. Rep. Alcee Hastings told an audience of Jewish Democrats Wednesday that they should be wary of Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin because “anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.” “If Sarah Palin isn’t enough of a reason […]
The John McCain campaign has stepped up its attacks on The New York Times as nothing more than a partisan political rag. The latest salvo was fired earlier this week when campaign manager Steve Schmidt went after the Times in a conference call with the press. Let me - let me also add, on the, […]
FactCheck.org yesterday released an article taking on the National Rifle Associations recent Anti-Obama ads. I've mentioned before that FactCheck.org is still a media animal and still has biases common to the mainstream media. (Read: Liberal.) To say that FactCheck.org screwed up big time is an understatement. Patterico, Dave Kopel and Bob Owens all shred FactCheck's […]
Palin Derangement Syndrome is already so bad that now just looking like Gov. Sarah Palin is enough to earn you vicious attacks. It's been less than a month since Alaska governor Sarah Palin was announced as John McCain's running mate and was thrust into the national spotlight. Since then, news anchor Cindy Michaels, has been […]
Last week, Sen. Joe Biden went off the reservation again in an effort to woo environmentalists and he came out against "clean coal" power plants. The problem is, that that's not Barack Obama's stated position. But the Obama campaign isn't saying that Biden misspoke or misunderstood the campaign's official position -- nope, their response is […]
Back in 1999 or 2000 I was flying back to San Diego from Portland, Ore., aboard an Alaska Airlines jet when the plane was forced down in Los Angeles. Sen. Joe Biden feels my pain. "Ladies and gentlemen, where are we now? Where are we now?" Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., said to the National Guard […]
That's an old G.K. Chesterton adage about what happens when men stop believing in God. In Friday's Wall Street Journal, Mollie Ziegler Hemingway points out that "comedian" Bill Maher is a prime example of Chesterton's statement. On Oct. 3, Mr. Maher debuts "Religulous," his documentary that attacks religious belief. He talks to Hasidic scholars, Jews […]
Here's a little summary of the two candidates positions on abortion and stem cell research. Note: Barack Obama, Democratic senator from Illinois Supports most abortion rights. Favors allowing states to restrict late-term abortions. And if you go to ontheissues.org, you find out this is true enough if you're uniformed about the details of abortion law. […]
Every four years, Democrats go down to Florida, where all the retired seniors are, and wave the bloody flag of evil Republicans wanting to take away Social Security. Yesterday, Sen. Barack Obama followed suit. Sen. Barack Obama told voters in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Saturday that if Sen. John McCain became president, he would privatize […]