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Best of The Streak: Palin on Earmarks: ‘We Did Well!!!’

By | 12.31.08 | 1:30 pm

First appeared September 3, 2008

Digging through Wasilla’s municipal records is a lesson in the very essence of tedium. You’ve got pages of proposals to rename streets, assess sewers, build skateboard parks, buy lawnmowers, rent “pop” machines, carve snowmobile trails, congratulate high school football teams — the kind of stuff More…

Best of The Streak: What Do You Mean He’s Out of Touch With Working-Class Americans?

By | 12.31.08 | 1:00 pm

First appeared August 21, 2008

Is it fair to expect Sen. John McCain to pay attention to trifling details — like how many homes he owns? He is a busy man after all. I’m sure it’s hard to keep track of such things when you’re running for president. In an More…

Best of The Streak: On the Surge and the Awakening, McCain Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About

By | 12.31.08 | 12:30 pm

First appeared July 22, 2008

Marc Ambinder brings us John McCain’s interview with Katie Couric, in which he re-writes history about Iraq and claims Obama is the revisionist.

Kate Couric: Senator McCain, Senator Obama says, while the increased

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Best of The Streak: McCain Labels Obama a ‘Flip-Flopper’ Citing Months-Old Quote

By | 12.31.08 | 12:00 pm

First appeared July 16, 2008

ST. LOUIS — Also from Tuesday’s town hall meeting in Albuquerque, Sen. John McCain attacked Sen. Barack Obama for flip-flopping on the success of the so-called “troop surge” in Iraq. Undoubtedly, McCain was referring to the New York Daily News report More…

Best of The Streak: McCain vs. The Media, Part XVII

By | 12.31.08 | 11:30 am

First appeared July 16, 2008

OMAHA, Neb. — This is simply too good not to flag. We’ve been talking about the sticky relationship the McCain campaign has with the media of late — well, here’s a visual aid, via Huffington Post‘s Nico More…

Best of The Streak: From the Department of Hypocrisy

By | 12.31.08 | 11:00 am

First appeared April 22, 2008

Some powerful lawmakers are cheering news that several African nations recently blocked a large shipment of Chinese weapons to embattled Zimbabwe, where chaos has reigned since a contested national election was held late last month. Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), More…

Best of The Streak: Obama’s Magnetic Ways

By | 12.31.08 | 10:30 am

First appeared April 29, 2008

Battered by his performance among the regular folk of Pennsylvania and Ohio, Barack Obama’s campaign is working hard in North Carolina and Indiana to fight any suggestion that he is elitist.

And what better way to say “I’m not a snob”

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Best of The Streak: ‘I Don’t Work For You No More’

By | 12.31.08 | 10:00 am

First appeared March 14, 2008

Jon Michael Turner’s tattoos cover his arms almost entirely. They peeked out under the rolled up sleeves of his crisp blue shirt, on which were the medals and ribbons he earned as an automatic machine gunner with the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines in

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Best of The Streak: Breaking News…About Tom Waits

By | 12.31.08 | 9:30 am

First appeared March 4, 2008

Usually I limit my blogging to environment-related topics, but this was just too good to be true (though I assure you, it is). Tom Waits’ publicist verified last night that Waits is in fact going on tour this summer. It will be a U.S. and More…

Best of The Streak: Clemens’ Nanny Quotes Clint Eastwood, Clearly Speaks English

By | 12.31.08 | 9:00 am

First appeared February 26, 2008

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) said it was a mistake holding a Valentine’s Day-Eve hearing into whether Roger Clemens took steroids or not. But Waxman also said Clemens lied and now “The Rocket”

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