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McCain’s Economic Solution: Everybody an Amway Distributor

By | 09.18.08 | 5:30 pm

Challenged to move away from generalities and bromides and provide specifics about fixing America’s troubled economic situation, Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, has at last responded. He presented a sweeping new idea so startling that not even top economists and leading banking regulation authorities would answer phone calls More…

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…

Netroots Digg Palin Pundit Gaffe

By | 09.04.08 | 10:46 am

Just what Republicans needed: An embarrassing gaffe on Gov. Sarah Palin’s big night. Two prominent Republicans pulled a Jesse Jackson on MSNBC’s set, providing a candid and withering assessment of McCain’s VP pick during a break in convention programming on Wednesday. (See TWI’s The Hot Mic Strikes Again.)

Great Expectations

By | 09.04.08 | 6:00 am

St. Paul, Minn.–Yesterday afternoon, when Sen. John McCain descended the stairs of his flying “Straight Talk Express” onto the tarmac in Minneapolis, greeted by members of his family as well as his running-mate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, 44, and her family, he walked out onto what had become very rough More…

Gustav Hits Alaska

By | 09.03.08 | 12:44 pm

The Republican National Committee today issued a rare emergency bulletin, stating that Gov. Sarah Palin, Sen. John McCain’s pick for vice-president, cannot participate in the Republican National Convention or the fall general election campaign because Hurricane Gustav has raged northwest from the Louisiana coast to ravage all of the state More…

Real Reasons to Whine

By | 09.03.08 | 10:03 am

Maybe we’re whiners for a reason. Bankruptcy filings climbed again in August, providing more proof that people are feeling the strains of a softening economy, creditslips reports.

The August figures show bankruptcy filings have reached a post-2005 high of 4,476 filings per day, notes credit expert Robert Lawless, a More…

Palin to Wasilla Librarian: Are You OK With Censorship?

By | 09.03.08 | 5:00 am

ANCHORAGE — Tuesday afternoon, the Mat-Su Frontiersman, in Wasilla, hosted me in their offices so I could dig through their print archives to get a sense of Gov. Sarah Palin’s tenure as mayor there.

I photocopied one story, from December 1996, about Palin’s run-in with Wasilla’s director of libraries, More…

“You don’t live in Cleveland, You live in Cincinnati!”

By | 09.02.08 | 7:45 pm

Cleveland–Here’s the deal with being from Ohio. Whenever I meet someone who’s been through the state, they always say they have relatives in Cleveland. I always answer that I’m from southwest Ohio, from Oxford. They then ask if I’m an Indians fan — and it takes every ounce of self-control More…