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McCain Plays to Strengths

By | 09.05.08 | 6:00 am

St. Paul–Darkness had fallen over the city when Sen. John McCain stepped out from the shadow created by his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, when she lashed out at the Democrats and the media and intellectual elites the night before. He did so as a man declared politically dead More…

Obama Would Lose Without Them

By | 09.04.08 | 4:05 pm

Young voters are critical for Obama's campaign. Credit: Isaac Viel

Sen. Barack Obama needs young voters to keep turning out at unusually high rates in order to win in November. While his campaign adeptly mobilized them in the primaries, and continues to empower young operatives in senior positions, the More…

Palin mocks Obama for respect for civil rights

By | 09.04.08 | 9:58 am

Last night, at the Republican National Convention, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took a dig at Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, for what’s apparently become an embarrassing notion to Republicans: the American commitment to civil rights.

“Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America,” Palin pronounced in More…

McCain’s Judgment Questioned

By | 09.03.08 | 3:34 pm

Sierra Vista, Ariz.–In February, when a 35-count federal indictment was filed against three-term Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.) on charges of wire fraud, money laundering, extortion and conspiracy in connection with his misuse of 2002 campaign funds and the sale of a business associate’s land, he was co-chairman of Sen. John More…

No Experience Necessary

By | 09.03.08 | 7:45 am

The astonishing thing about the lack of experience of Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor selected by Sen. John McCain to be his running mate on the GOP ticket, is that no one much seems astonished. Oh sure, there was partisan carping, James Carville and company making More…

Quiver Before Our Suspendered Overlord

By | 09.02.08 | 5:08 pm

John McCain tells us he’s going to stand up to Vladimir Putin and chase Osama bin Laden to the “gates of hell” and fight until who-knows-when in Iraq and so forth. But there is one tyrant on this earth who makes even McCain tremble? Larry King. As Eric More…

McCain Stands By Vetting Process

By | 09.02.08 | 3:59 pm

PHILADELPHIA — With a steady stream of info on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — including a torrent from TWI’s own Laura McGann, now on the scene in Alaska — emerging since Sen. John McCain chose her as his running mate, many are questioning just More…

All Politics Is Local

By | 09.02.08 | 1:11 pm

Speaking to the Canasta Club of Greater Alaska at its monthly pot-luck dinner, Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate, drew on her own hard-won political experience to spell out an agenda for moving America forward over the next four years.

Palin called for a Neighborhood Watch, just like More…

McCain’s Economic Agenda

By | 09.02.08 | 6:30 am

Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican nominee, rose to national prominence in part by taking on his fellow Republicans, particularly on the disgraceful “K-Street” project — a conscious embrace of business lobbyists reminiscent of the Harding administration. More recently, he broke ranks with the More…