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GOP Feels Heat for Foreclosure Voter Suppression

By | 09.18.08 | 11:49 am

Michigan Republicans are feeling the heat for a scheme to suppress voters based based on a list of foreclosed homes, a plan first reported by journalist Eartha Jane Melzer for our sister site, The Michigan Messenger.

In the week since Melzer broke the news, exposing Macomb County G.O.P. More…

McCain’s Dishonesty Tactic Tough to Beat

By | 09.18.08 | 6:15 am

For a man who once considered the press his “base,” and the truth a trusted ally, part of a package of integrity and “Straight Talk,” Arizona Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee for president, finds himself on unfamiliar terrain these days. Now, on the verge of the apex of his More…

McCain’s Change and Corporate Media

By | 09.16.08 | 10:05 am

I appear as a guest on Peter B. Collins‘ radio show — which is fun because it has live callers. It’s like talking to blog commenters, if commenters were more supportive. (Kidding! Sort of.)

Anyway, in a segment on Friday, a caller raised big questions about how Republicans More…

Sarah Palin: Diplomat Without Porfolio (Yet?)

By | 09.11.08 | 6:15 pm

ABC News is reporting that newly minted Republican superstar and vice presidential nominee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, has said war “may be” necessary if Russia invades another country. Um, yeah.

But, when campaigning in Michigan, back when the Russians invaded Georgia, Sen. John McCain stood next to his wife, Cindy, More…

The Price of Parting….

By | 09.08.08 | 7:34 pm

Today the Republican presidential ticket went its separate ways as Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin split up for the first time since Palin became the darling of every gun-tootin’ hockey mom from Anchorage to St. Petersburg.

Following big crowds, the two will now split their forces and travel More…

Palin’s ‘Luxury’ Jet Didn’t Sell on eBay

By | 09.05.08 | 3:44 pm

ANCHORAGE — You would think after being here a week I would have learned my lesson. Always vet.

I didn’t check Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s claim in her acceptance speech for the GOP vice presidential nomination on Wednesday night that she had sold the governor’s “luxury” jet on eBay. More…