ABC News notes: Five days out, Obama has wrested control of the race with his typical disciplined style — and someone’s going to have to scramble to take it from him. Consider his extraordinary Wednesday evening, framed by 30 minutes of primetime television where Obama did not mention the words “John McCain.” (Can you imagine [...]
It’s official: Iraq wants to remove any possibility that U.S. troops could remain after 2011 from a proposed security agreement now under negotiation, a Shiite lawmaker close to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Thursday. Iraqis demanding a timeline? Don’t they know that John McCain says that will bring American troops home in defeat? Iraq must [...]
The “Wall Street Bailout” is officially a “rich guy giveaway”: Under fire from Democrats and Republicans alike, the White House on Thursday defended giving billions of taxpayer dollars to banks that plan to use some of the money to reward shareholders and executives – or even buy other banks. How does any of this help [...]
Conservative Democrats – known as the Blue Dogs – stand ready to assume greater control of their party. While you might not get this sort of thing from the lefty blogosphere, where they like to crow that a true liberal will win any electoral contest, the fact is that Democrats are a growing majority because [...]
Daylight savings time is about to end and CNN is worried that we might sleep too much. Stop worrying. I have twins. Sphere: Related Content
While the top of the ticket is getting the national attention, a quiet revolution is occurring slightly further down: But with an unpopular president, a broken economy and an African-American at the top of the Democratic ticket, the prospect is high for Democrats to pick up in November. Mississippi has not sent a Democrat to [...]
CNN commentator Ruben Navarrette continues to rewrite history: But Congress is no longer under Republican control, and yet we’re no closer to comprehensive immigration reform. That’s because Democrats have, in the last two years, bungled immigration reform by undermining a guest worker program as a favor to organized labor, whose leaders continue to insist — [...]
“Joe the Plumber” is actually campaigning for John McCain. My God, can the man not bow out with grace and dignity? Sphere: Related Content
The economy experienced negative growth in the immediate past quarter. One more quarter and we’ll officially have a recession. I’m betting the Christmas will save our goose. Until the bills are due in January. Then we’ll be in the crapper again. Sphere: Related Content
Baby boomers look at retirement through the stock-market. They don’t like what they see. Just imagine how happy they’d be if George W. Bush had managed to sink their Social Security into the bombing market! Here’s a bit of wisdom that was given to me long ago: Don’t bet with money you can’t afford to [...]
