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McCain Announces a Game-Changing Endorsement

By | 10.15.08 | 8:40 pm

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Shortly before the final presidential debate here at Hofstra University, the McCain campaign announced a potentially race-altering endorsement that could be just what the doctor ordered to revive Sen. John McCain’s beleaguered bid for the White House.

I don’t think this is a joke:

McCain’s Poetry Written In ‘Gasolina’

By | 08.25.08 | 5:49 pm

Can I add one thing to DeLong’s Daddy Yankee post? When I went to Iraqi Kurdistan in January 2006, Daddy Yankee’s porny hit “Gasolina” was, for some inexplicable reason, ubiquitous. Somehow Daddy Yankee was the sound of the Erbil streets. I wrote about it for Open Democracy: