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Pelosi helped destroy deal with her partisan comments
Lost your job this week? Has your retirement account gone back in time 5 years? Well, you can thank Nancy Pelosi. Her speech today, laced with partisan attacks against President Bush and Republicans, is being credited with turning just enough Republicans against the House proposal to defeat it. Great job Speaker [...]
Continue reading...Shenzou-7 touches down after successful spacewalk mission
28. September 2008
China is now the third nation in the world - after the US and Russia - to have independently launched an orbital spacecraft, conducted an Extra-Vehicular Activity excursion, and then returned the craft and its crew safely to Earth. This is actually the third manned Chinese mission into space and their first mission involving a [...]
Continue reading...President Bush addresses the nation
24. September 2008
Earlier this evening, President Bush addressed a national audience on the topic of the current economic meltdown. In his speech, Bush gave a general overview of all the various factors that have taken us to where we are today. In general, it was one of his more effective Presidential addresses. The President resisted his [...]
Continue reading...Obama leads by small margin in New York
21. September 2008
In further evidence that this isn’t your normal election year, Democrat Barack Obama has a shocking small 5% lead in New York state. That’s according to a survey released last week by Siena College. The poll gives Obama the support of 46% of the Empire State’s voters. That compares with 41% for [...]
Continue reading...Franken crafts SNL skit that slams McCain
21. September 2008
Al Franken, the former “Saturday Night Live” actor and writer who is now running for a U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota, helped to craft the opening sketch from last night’s episode of SNL. Franken didn’t actually write the material, but apparently he called current SNL head writer Seth Meyers and pitched him the basic [...]
Continue reading...What is the SEC thinking?
19. September 2008
Ok, so Chris Cox sensed his job might be in danger if the SEC didn’t step up to the plate and start enforcing some laws. Maybe cleaning up the garbage that’s been going on in the financial markets for the past few years. The (slightly) stricter laws against naked short selling of stocks was a good [...]
Continue reading...Barr asks Ron Paul to join the Libertarian ticket as Vice-Presidential candidate
10. September 2008
Libertarian Presidential nominee and former Republican Congressman Bob Barr has extended an offer to Congressman Ron Paul to join the Libertarian ticket. Barr’s campaign issued a public letter to Paul that asks him to step in as the Libertarian VP nominee, in place of Las Vegas bookmaker Wayne Root. Though recognizing Paul’s personal investment in [...]
Continue reading...Even Joe Biden says Hillary would have been a better pick for Vice-President
10. September 2008
Another day, another amusingly weird ‘moment’ from Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate Joe Biden. This time, someone in the crowd applauds Obama for picking Biden over Hillary Clinton… and instead of brushing off the comment or saying he respects Senator Clinton, Biden goes a step further. “Make no mistake about this,” Biden responded. “Hillary Clinton is as [...]
Continue reading...Obama jams his foot into his mouth
9. September 2008
“You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” Obama said in reference to the McCain-Palin campaign’s call for the right kind of change at the RNC last week. The comment was a play on Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s joke during her convention speech that the only difference between [...]
Continue reading...The Large Hadron Collider is harmless
9. September 2008
The Earth is a big flat disk. The Moon landing was staged. 9/11 was an inside job. Odd theories based on pseudoscience and a complete lack of critical thinking abound - one that currently seems to be bubbling to the surface is the idea that the Large Hadron Collider, a giant particle accelerator at CERN in [...]
Continue reading...- Governor Sarah Palin would be a bold choice for Vice-President
- Criminal complaint filed in the John Edwards sex scandal
- Zogby: McCain inching into lead
- Why is the media ignoring the John Edwards sex scandal?
- Another day, another close poll
- The ACORN doesn't fall far from the Obama tree...
- China fakes Olympic fireworks
- SNL nails Keith Olbermann's 'Countdown'
- McCain must close 5-8% gap in polls
- Obama's drama: Slavery in the 21st century
- McCain must close 5-8% gap in polls (104)
- Ron Paul Hunting for Caucus Delegates (82)
- Governor Sarah Palin would be a bold choice for Vice-President (66)
- Ron Paul Takes Second Place in Alaska (63)
- Huckabee blocking Romney for VP? (49)
- Is Ron Paul Giving Up? (46)
- Video: Ken Blackwell speaking at the 'Defending the American Dream' Summit (45)
- Arnold to cut CA state employees' pay to minimum wage (44)
- China fakes Olympic fireworks (44)
- Chavez laments killing of FARC commander (41)
- Lesson of Mumbai: Come to India, be a sitting duck
- SNL nails Keith Olbermann’s ‘Countdown’
- Video: Ken Blackwell speaking at the ‘Defending the American Dream’ Summit
- What happens when ACORN really breaks?
- Video from the Bloggers Room at the ‘Defending the American Dream’ Summit
- Saturday morning’s General Session at the Defending the American Dream Summit
- George Will energizes Americans for Prosperity crowd
- More observations from the ‘American Dream’ Summit
- Waiting for SamSphere to begin
- First impressions from the Defending the American Dream Summit
29. September 2008
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