McCain's Attack on Veterans - Los Angeles Times

His respectful rhetoric isn't matched by his votes.By Edward HumesMay 30, 2008MORE THAN A FEW people have been puzzled by Sen. John McCain's dogged opposition to the updated GI Bill of Rights now before Congress. The dissonance between McCain's military-man image and his actions on this issue have introduced a jarring note to his presidential aspirations -- and have highlighted the shoddy treatment many Iraq war veterans have received. FOR THE RECORD:GI Bill: A May 30 Op-Ed article about the GI Bill said the 1944 bill offered full benefits to any veteran who served 90 days. The bill paid for 12 months of college or vocational school if a veteran served 90 days, with additional benefits, up to 48 months of school, for each month of military service. —Why would a Vietnam War veteran and former prisoner of war, a man who is personally acquainted with the difficulties vets can face in returning to civilian life, join President Bush in opposing a popular bipartisan bill to support the troops? Isn't fixing the education benefit in the bill -- one that has shortchanged far too many veterans for years -- a political no-brainer in an election year? The 75 senators who recently voted for it certainly thought so. Over the Memorial Day weekend, Sen. Barack Obama expressed some well-timed astonishment at McCain’s opposition, and the two have been feuding about it ever since. The media and pundits seem perplexed, collectively suggesting: That's not the John McCain we know.

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The Plan to Steal the Next Election

Here, in this shattering new interview, Stephen Spoonamore goes into harrowing detail about the Bush regime's election fraud, past, present and--if we don't spread the word right now--to come. Since he's the only whistle-blower out there who knows the perps themselves, and how they operate, we have to send this new piece far and wide.Here, in this shattering new interview, Stephen Spoonamore goes into harrowing detail about the Bush regime's election fraud, past, present and--if we don't spread the word right now--to come. Since he's the only whistle-blower out there who knows the perps themselves, and how they operate, we have to send this new piece far and wide.Here Spoon tells us that McBush's team--i.e., Karl Rove and his henchpersons-- have their plan in place to steal this next election: by 51.2% of the popular vote, and three electoral votes.He also talks about the major role played by the Christianist far right in the electronic rigging of the vote.And he defines our electronic voting system as a major threat to US national security, calling for it to be junked ASAP, in favor of hand-counted paper ballots.Since Spoon is a Republican and erstwhile McCain supporter, as well as a noted specialist in nosing out computer fraud, his testimony is essential--not only for its expertise, but, no less, for the impact that his views will surely have on those Republicans who have been loath to see what Bush & Co. has done to our election system.That whole story's just about to break. In fact, tomorrow there will be a number of articles appearing, on a recent breakthrough in the lawsuit that Spoon's testimony has enabled, and on other aspects of that all-important case.

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Indiana Poll Location Changes: No Notice To Voters

Recently, the republican mayor's office in Indianapolis made 31 polling location changes and there has not been, nor will there be, an official announcement or mailing to the voters to inform them of these changes. There also has been no or very minimal media coverage about this.by HercegovacSat Sep 20, 2008 at 07:45:47 PM PDTI just wanted to update all of you on news from Indiana. I have been a volunteer for the Obama campaign throughout the primary in Indiana and put in about 10 hours a week canvassing, phone banking, data entry, voter registration, and writing letter to newspapers. We strongly believe that we can turn this state blue and the polls have shown that this is quite possible. However, news just came to us which may suppress some people from voting in November.Recently, the republican mayor's office in Indianapolis made 31 polling location changes and there has not been, nor will there be, an official announcement or mailing to the voters to inform them of these changes. There also has been no or very minimal media coverage about this. * Hercegovac's diary :: ::*As recent polls show, Indianapolis voting trends show that Senator Obama should win in the city by a pretty comfortable margin. However, these polling location changes may affect the numbers in Indianapolis. A lot of these location changes are in areas of the city with newer subdivisions in them whihc. we find have a strong democratic following within them. Other areas with the changes of those with a low socio-economic status.Polls in Indiana are open between 6am-6pm. Due to the early closing time, people tend to want to vote in the morning since it is diffciult to do so after work. Throughout the city, multiple precincts share the same polling location. However, if one comes to vote in the morning, even though the location is open, they will be told that their precinct location has been changed and they are in the wrong place. We fear that people may not want to drive to another area to go vote and will just go to work, thus not vote!!

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Voter Purging: Legal Way for Republicans to Swing Elections

Now the Department of Justice, like the Republican Party, wants fewer registered voters in 2008. In 2004 they purged 24% of the registered voters in Cleveland. There are new purge programs all over the country right now.The Department of Justice's Voting Section is pressuring 10 states to purge voter rolls before the 2008 election based on statistics that former Voting Section attorneys and other experts say are flawed and do not confirm that those states have more voter registrations than eligible voters, as the department alleges.Voting Section Chief John Tanner called for the purges in letters sent this spring under an arcane provision in the National Voter Registration Act, better known as the Motor Voter law, whose purpose is to expand voter registration. The identical letters notify states that 10 percent or more of their election jurisdictions have problematic voter rolls. It tells states to report "the subsequent removal from rolls of persons no longer eligible to vote.""That data does not say what they purport it says," said David Becker, People for the American Way Foundation's senior voting rights counsel and a former Voting Section senior trial attorney, after reviewing the letters and statistics used to call for the purges. "They are saying the data shows the 10 worst voter rolls. They have a lot of explaining to do.""You are basically seeing them grasping at whatever straws are possible to make their point," said Kim Brace, a consultant who helped the U.S. Election Assistance Commission prepare its 2004 National Voter Registration Act report, which contains the data tables cited by the Voting Section letter to identify the errant states.The Justice Department would not comment for this report, despite repeated requests.The 10 states receiving Voting Section purge letters are Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Vermont. Since 2005, the Section has also sued six other states or cities -- Indiana, Maine, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Pulaski County, Arkansas -- where purging voter rolls was part of the resulting settlement. Only Missouri fought a Voting Section suit, winning in federal court, although that decision has been appealed.

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Freddie Mac Money Trail Catches Up With McCain

One senior McCain adviser said the entire flap could have been avoided if the campaign had resisted attacking Barack Obama for his ties to two former Fannie Mae executives, which prompted the media to take a second look at Davis. "It was stupid," the adviser said. "A serious miscalculation and an amateurish move."

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S.E.C. Concedes Oversight Flaws Fueled Collapse

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, a longtime proponent of deregulation, acknowledged on Friday that failures in a voluntary supervision program for Wall Street’s largest investment banks had contributed to the global financial crisis, and he abruptly shut the program down.The S.E.C.’s oversight responsibilities will largely shift to the Federal Reserve, though the commission will continue to oversee the brokerage units of investment banks.Also Friday, the S.E.C.’s inspector general released a report strongly criticizing the agency’s performance in monitoring Bear Stearns before it collapsed in March. Christopher Cox, the commission chairman, said he agreed that the oversight program was “fundamentally flawed from the beginning.”“The last six months have made it abundantly clear that voluntary regulation does not work,” he said in a statement. The program “was fundamentally flawed from the beginning, because investment banks could opt in or out of supervision voluntarily. The fact that investment bank holding companies could withdraw from this voluntary supervision at their discretion diminished the perceived mandate” of the program, and “weakened its effectiveness,” he added.

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Vice Pres. Palin; Witchcraft, Third Wave; Kenya; Videos, Transformations

The term Third Wave was coined over two decades ago to describe a loosely linked network of groups that remained or were reemerging from a movement called Latter Rain that was denounced as heresy by the Assemblies of God in 1949. In recent years these groups have coalesced into a much larger and more institutionalized structure. A central figure in the movement is C. Peter Wagner, founder of Global Harvest Ministries and the World Prayer Center in Colorado Springs. In the late 1990s Wagner gave the name New Apostolic Network to his organization which now includes over 500 Apostles under his authority, or Apostolic Covering, in the International Coalition of Apostles.The Transformation I video features the story of four cities that the narrator, George Otis, Jr, claims have been transformed through the power of intercessory prayer and the expulsion of demons. The video served the purpose of introducing the revolutionary new evangelizing methods developed by C. Peter Wagner and his colleagues. The use of Strategic Level Spiritual Warfare to expel territorial demons is facilitated by Spiritual Mapping and then intercessory prayer and fasting. The World Prayer Center in Colorado Springs developed by Wagner and Ted Haggard houses the computer systems for organizing the prayer intercessors as well as the Spiritual Mapping media. The video was based on the book Breaking the Strongholds in Your City: How to Use Spiritual Mapping to Make Your Prayers More Strategic, Effective and Targeted

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Palin under fire -- pastor waged a WITCH-HUNT!

Vice-presidential pick Sarah Palin is known for her strident views on religion and the power of prayer. But her credibility is once again being questioned after a visiting African pastor she credits with helping her political career was revealed to have waged a witch-hunt against a woman who was said to cause car crashes with her "demonic spells.

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Networks Revolt Against Reporter-Blocking Palin UN Meeting

"The networks have just voted to BAN any use of the photographs/video in protest."There's a battle going on right now over how the networks will be allowed to cover Sarah Palin's big day of visits in NY with world leaders. Palin is scheduled to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai shortly, followed by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and then with McCain advisor, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The networks had arranged for a "pool" camera- one camera to cover the meetings, whose video would be pooled or shared with all networks. Such arrangements are standard when dealing with intimate high-level meetings between leaders and candidates. But typically, along with cameras, there is an editorial presence-- at least one print reporter, one TV reporter and one radio reporter is standard. Today, the McCain campaign had said it would allow only one editorial person inside. Now, the campaign is saying it wants only the camera inside with no editorial presence. All of the networks are objecting. Stay tuned.P.S.: The networks have just voted to BAN any use of the photographs/video in protest.

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Will Palin's pregnant daughter drop out of high school

Palin's pregnant daughter has already missed months of high school. Now the baby is due. Will the daughter do the usually thing for pregnant girls and drop out of high school, failing to graduate?

And isn't someone dropping out of high school an early warning sign for future poverty and unemployment?

And is Palin's daughter setting a good example for other teenage girls who haven't graduated from high school?

Just asking these non theoretical questions...

BTW women and feminists please chime in..

Worst crisis since the Depression; NY Times reporters

See entire transcript and video:

link to Moyers

BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the JOURNAL. The news this week drove us to pull THE GREAT GATSBY off the bookshelf and read what F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote of his protagonists, the Buchanans: "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

TREASURY SECRETARY HENRY PAULSON: We must now take further, decisive action to fundamentally and comprehensively address the root causes of our financial system's stresses.

BILL MOYERS: The news caught everyone off guard, including my colleagues and me. For technical reasons we had to record our broadcast last night, with guests who have a deep understanding of the big picture. We decided to go on with the broadcast even as the news continued to pile up, because of the light our guests shed on the roots of the crisis.

Gretchen Morgenson writes the MarketWatch column for the Sunday NEW YORK TIMES.

Floyd Norris is the paper's chief financial correspondent.

Welcome to the JOURNAL.

Default by the US government is no longer unthinkable

Power has tangibly shifted - away from the United States and the Western world generally, and towards the fast-growing giants of the East. That's been happening for some years now. But September 2008 marks the moment when the scale of our excesses, the extent of our debts and the bankruptcy of our regulatory system finally began to be exposed.

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Lehman Executives to get $2.5 billion in bonuses

link to Times On line Article

September 21, 2008

Fury at $2.5bn Lehman bonus

Nomura and Barclays table bids today for US giant’s London operation as bank’s administrator likens collapse to Enron

John Waples and Danny Fortson

STAFF at Lehman’s New York office who helped to cause the world’s biggest corporate bankruptcy are to share in a $2.5 billion bonanza.

The bonus, which has been described by London staff as a “scandal” has been pledged by Barclays Capital, the British-based bank that last week acquired Lehman’s American operation and took on 10,000 staff.

The $2.5 billion (£1.4 billion) pot, which has been ring-fenced as

TIME Magazine: Could McCain's Crusade Against Pork Backfire?

Gotcha! It turns out that John McCain, while crusading against wasteful spending, specifically objected to three earmarks that Sarah Palin requested as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, including a dubious agricultural-processing facility designed to promote local produce. In fact, Palin has a consistent record of chasing the bacon that McCain has fought for years. She pulled in $27 million in earmarks as mayor, requested $450 million in earmarks as governor and even supported the state's notorious Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it. There isn't enough lipstick in Alaska to cover all that pork.

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Republican Sen. Hagel Questions Palin's Experience!!

Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska on Wednesday became the nation's most prominent Republican officeholder to publicly question whether Sarah Palin has the experience to serve as president.

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Virginia Republican ex-Governor to Campaign for Obama

Former GOP governor Linwood Holton today endorsed a Democrat for president for the first time and is going to stump critical areas of the state for him. Linwood Holton is the hero of moderate Republicans in Virginia. Holton is widely regarded as the father of the Republican party in Virginia.

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Alan Greenspan says US Can't Afford McCain Tax Cuts

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the country can't afford $3.3 trillion of tax cuts proposed by Republican presidential nominee John McCain without corresponding spending reductions. Greenspan said today on Bloomberg Television that ``I'm not in favor of financing tax cuts with borrowed money."

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FactCheck.org: McCain-Palin Distorts Our Finding

A McCain-Palin ad has FactCheck.org calling Obama's attacks on Palin "absolutely false" and "misleading." That's what we said, but it wasn't about Obama.

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Palin Was a Director of Embattled Sen. Stevens's 527 Group

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin began building clout in her state's political circles in part by serving as a director of an independent political group organized by the now embattled Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens.

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Republicans destroying small towns and working class

This is taken from a Wall Street Journal opinion piece (which to my surprise is very critical of the Republicans). It points out the fact that Republicans have been hoodwinking "rural America" and working class people into voting for Republican policies which are actually hurting them and destroying their way of life:

http://www.wsj.com/article/S......


For decades now we have been electing people like Sarah Palin who claimed to love and respect the folksy conservatism of small towns, and yet who have unfailingly enacted laws to aid the small town's mortal enemies.

Without raising an antitrust finger they have permitted fantastic concentration in the various industries that buy the farmer's crops. They have undone the New Deal system of agricultural price supports in favor of schemes called "Freedom to Farm" and loan deficiency payments -- each reform apparently designed to secure just one thing out of small town America: cheap commodities for the big food processors. Richard Nixon's Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz put the conservative attitude toward small farmers most bluntly back in the 1970s when he warned, "Get big or get out."

A few days ago I talked politics with Donn Teske, the president of the Kansas Farmers Union and a former Republican. Barack Obama may come from a big city, he admits, but the Farmers Union gives him a 100% rating for his votes in Congress. John McCain gets a 0%. "If any farmer in the Plains States looked at McCain's voting record on ag issues," Mr. Teske says, "no one would vote for him."

Now, Mr. McCain is known for his straight talk with industrial workers, telling them their jobs are never coming back, that the almighty market took them away for good, and that retraining is their only hope.

But he seems to think that small-town people can be easily played. Just choose a running mate who knows how to skin a moose and all will be forgiven. Drive them off the land, shutter their towns, toss their life chances into the grinders of big agriculture . . . and praise their values. The TV eminences will coo in appreciation of your in-touch authenticity, and the carnival will move on.

Palin asks Librarian about censorship and banning books

Library Director Mary Ellen Emmons last week said Palin broached the subject with her on two occasions in October - once Palin was elected mayor Oct. 1 and again in more detail on Monday, Oct. 28. Besides heading the Wasilla City Library, Emmons is also president of the Alaska Library Association. “This was a constitutional question. And the ACLU..

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Palin asked city librarian whether she'd ban books

When the matter came up for the second time in October 1996, during a City Council meeting, Anne Kilkenny, a Wasilla housewife who often attends council meetings, was there."Sarah said to Mary Ellen, 'What would your response be if I asked you to remove some books from the collection?' " Kilkenny said."I was shocked. Mary Ellen sat up straight and said something along the line of, 'The books in the Wasilla Library collection were selected on the basis of national selection criteria for libraries of this size, and I would absolutely resist all efforts to ban books.' "Palin didn't mention specific books at that meeting, Kilkenny said.Yet more reason to fear "Goodie Palin". She is, like the Nazi's, in favor of banning books. This woman is a threat to the American way of life and American ideals. Certainly not a supporter of Constitutional rights - except, perhaps, the 2nd Amendment. Why does she hate America?

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Newsweek: Judge warned Palin about 'emotional child abuse'

Court records obtained by NEWSWEEK show that during the course of divorce hearings three years ago, Judge John Suddock heard testimony from an official of the Alaska State Troopers' union about how Sarah Palin—then a private citizen—and members of her family, including her father and daughter, lodged up to a dozen complaints against Wooten with the state police. The union official told the judge that he had never before been asked to appear as a divorce-case witness, that the union believed family complaints against Wooten were "not job-related," and that Wooten was being "harassed" by Palin and other family members.

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14 Years of Republican MISrule is enough; Vote change/Democrat

Does the nation want change in Washington or more of the same, warmed over, failing Republican policies that have been dished out since 1994? This is the question that hopefully will be answered, clearly and correctly, in November with the national election.

We have been through 14 years of Republican misrule, corruption and a brittle, failed ideology. It started back in 1994 when the Republican party took control of Congress and began the ruinous path. By 2001 the Republicans had gained control of ALL THREE branches of the government – the White House, the Senate/House of Representatives and the Supreme Court. Then things really began to unravel: Enron, Worldcom, stock pricing scandals and other corporate bankruptcies; Merrill Lynch and stock broker scandals, accounting scandals; the strange power shortages in California and then the 9-11 attack. The war on terror followed, with the two mismanaged wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The mismanagement and incompetence resulted (finally) in the firings of Sec. of Defense Don Rumsfeld and CIA director George Tenet.


Presently, we are still in the midst of the Republican lobbying scandals. Big-time Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff has just been sentenced to an additional 4 years in prison. Former Republican Majority whip Tom Delay will go on trial in Texas for illegally receiving campaign donations. Republican Senator Ted Stevens will go on trial in October for not reporting gifts from a oil contractor. And Republican Representative Duke Cunningham sits in federal prison for taking bribes and kick backs from defense contractors. The list of greedy and fallen lawmakers in legal trouble goes on and on.


Let me stress that this coming election maybe the best hope for substantial change and reform in Washington in a generation. Broad and significant change, similar to the post-Nixon, post-Watergate reforms of the 1970’s, is badly needed. And this change cannot come soon enough. Another historic parallel: Nixon and George Bush have similarly low approval ratings.

The Republicans in Washington should be held accountable in November for their lies, failures and misdeeds as we, the people of this nation, go to vote. It is time to change the direction of the government and the direction of the country, toward a better future.

The Politico: Koch backs Obama, calls Palin "Scary"

Blog: Former New York Mayor Ed Koch, who endorsed and worked for George W. Bush in 2004, is endorsing Obama today, NY1 first reported.Former New York Mayor Ed Koch, who endorsed and worked for George W. Bush in 2004, is endorsing Obama today, NY1 first reported.I asked Koch just now what prompted the move."The designation of Palin to be vice president," he said. "She's scary."He said he was alarmed by the report that she'd triggered a conflict with the local librarian in Wasilla, Alaska by inquiring about the possibility of banning books.

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Democrats Will Unseat at Least 5 Senate Republicans in 2008

Democratic insiders are preparing for a round of Senate contests that could offer an opportunity to equal the massive success they experienced back in 2006, when they added six seats to take a narrow majority. Now, Democratic candidates are looking to flip anywhere from five to ten additional seats from the red to the blue column.

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Media Ignores Massive Voter Purges by Republicans

While the media focuses on the antics of McCain's chosen VP battleground states are purging their voter rolls.In Colorado, one fifth of all voter registrations were dropped.Florida is refusing to accept 85,000 new registrants -- overwhelmingly blacks.Ohio & Nevada are scrubbing tens of 1000s of voters who lost their homes.

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Boycott ABC's Interview of Palin

The "Queen Barracuda" Palin is demanding that ABC's Charlie Gibson meet with her in Alaska for the FIRST, virginal, interview - on her Alaskan turf. This is just more imperial Republican bullshit. In other words: The press is supposed to lick the boots of the candidate and be "deferential" and humble.

One wonders if the questions Palin is asked will be cherry-picked by her staff as well. Talking Points Memo is already calling the Palin interview a sham.

There is another good reason to boycott ABC News:
Remember the horrible "debate" that Gibson and George Step. moderated between Obama and Clinton?? The first 45 minutes of the debate was taken up with questions like: "Senator Obama, if you are really patriotic, why don't you wear an American flag lapel pin everyday?"

Oh, and more imperial Republican B.S.: Dick Cheney REALLY likes Palin!!!

Just don't watch the ABC interview!!

McBush jumps ahead of Obama

Breaking: Same Lobbyist, Another Bridge, TO WASILLA.

Wasilla Lobbyist, Silver, lobbying for Palin on bridge to Wasilla

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Sarah Palin, Marxist

Palin's state reaps the windfall profits McCain decries. Welcome to the People's Republic of Alaska, where every resident this year will get a $3,200 payout, thanks in no small measure to the efforts of Sarah Palin, the state's Republican governor. That's $22,400 for a family of seven, like Palin's.

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Palin's Small Alaska Town Secured Big Federal Funds

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 1 -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin employed a lobbying firm to secure almost $27 million in federal earmarks for a town of 6,700 residents while she was its mayor, according to an analysis by an independent government watchdog. This is a direct opposition to her and mccain's claim to being "reformers".

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"Reformer" Palin Accepted Donations From Indicted Alaska Oil

After Palin and Allen met, VECO contributed $5,000 to the Palin campaign for lieutenant governor. The contribution came in ten $500 donations made over a two-day period in late December in Allen's name and those of his executives and a couple of their spouses. The donations added up to 10 percent of all the money Palin raised for her 2002 campaign.

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Todd Palin's business partner files to seal divorce papers

Todd Palin's former business partner files an emergency motion to have his divorce papers sealed. Oh God. - with link to the actual court document!

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INTERVIEW WITH MCCAIN HECKLER ADAM KOKESH.

Kokesh, a passionate Ron Paul supporter, is 26 and a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. He served in Fallujah in 2004, grew up in Santa Fe, and currently lives in Washington, D.C. He has a website.At the beginning of McCain's speech, Kokesh held up a sign reading, "McCain Votes Against Vets" and yelled, "Ask him why he votes against vets!" I followed as Kokesh was escorted out of the Excel Center by security, handcuffed by local police, and then briefly questioned while security debated whether or not the Secret Service would get involved. They did not. He was then escorted off the premises and allowed to go free. I interviewed him just outside the security gates, where he was greeted happily by antiwar protesters.

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Out of Touch: Cindy McCain's Monday Outfit Cost $300,000

One of the persistent memes in the Republican line of attack against Barack Obama is the notion that he is an elitist, whereas the G.O.P. represent real working Americans. But when Vanity Fair priced out Cindy McCain's Monday Night Convention outfit, the total price was staggering to say the least.... between $299,100 and $313,100

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McCain criticized earmarks from Palin

Three times in recent years, the Arizona senator's lists of 'objectionable' pork spending have included earmarks requested by his new running mate.

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Sarah Palin's Corrupt Mis-Management of Dairy in Alaska

Palin fired the whole state Agriculture and Conservation board in July 2007, and replaced it with her loyalists. As a result, the dairy lost more money than it had in twenty years. The dairy, an Alaska icon, closed two months later. Millions of dollars in dairy equipment ended up, at a steep discount, in the hands of a local Palin ally.

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Palin's church says Jews deserve to be victims of terrorism

Brickner also described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God's "judgment of unbelief" of Jews who haven't embraced Christianity. "Judgment is very real and we see it played out on the pages of the newspapers and on the television. It's very real. When [Brickner's son] was in Jerusalem he was there to witness some of that judgment, some of that conflict, when a Palestinian from East Jerusalem took a bulldozer and went plowing through a score of cars, killing numbers of people. Judgment — you can't miss it."Palin was in church that day, Kroon said, though he cautioned against attributing Brickner’s views to her.Brickner, [Palin's church leader] also described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God's "judgment of unbelief" of Jews who haven't embraced Christianity. Palin was in church that day and did nothing.

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Palin's Church: "Terrorism Against Jews is God's Judgment"

On Aug. 17, Sarah Palin’s church, the Wasilla Bible Church, gave its pulpit over to a figure viewed with deep hostility by many Jewish organizations: David Brickner. Brickner described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God's "judgment of unbelief" of Jews who haven't embraced Christianity. Yes, Palin sat in a church where this message was given.

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Why The GOP Has No Clue That Their Convention Sucks

Oliver Willis: A convention where the keynote speakers on night one were a failed president, a b-list actor who couldn't muster a single primary win because he thought he could campaign from a golf cart, and a senator who got drummed out of his own party and formed his own dishonest party to retain his seat. Blame it on "The Bubble"

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In St. Paul, Mayor and Media Mum on Journalism Crackdown

Reports of journalists, bloggers and videomakers being arrested keep rolling in. This intimidation of journalists is having a chilling effect on free speech and freedom of the press.

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House Judiciary Hold Secret Talks On Miers Subpoena

Even as the Bush administration appeals a recent federal court decision requiring former White House Counsel Harriet Miers to appear before the House Judiciary Committee in order to raise an executive-privilege claim, lawyers for the two sides are holding "confidential talks" about resolving the legal impasse, although those discussions have yielde

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VP nom. Pallin's daughter pregnant: health insurance 4 baby

Just asking a nuts and bolts question here. Governor Pallin's 17 year old daughter, Bristol, is pregnant (and not married and not working) with her first child. Now, according to the press release from Pallin's office, Bristol will have the child, keep the child and marry the father (who was not named).

One of the first questions that came to my mind about this news (right after the question, Who is the father?), was Is Bristol insured for health coverage? Presumably she is covered by her parents health coverage. Second question, Is the baby covered by covered by someone's health insurance? And the third question, naturally, Does the unnamed father of the baby have health insurance which would cover the child?

Just curious...

Palin Fights Rumors, Announces that Her Daughter is Pregnant

The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child.

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McCain Buckles to Far Right... Wanted to Pick Lieberman

For weeks, advisers close to the campaign said, McCain had wanted to name as his running mate his good friend Senator Joe Lieberman. But by the end of last weekend, the outrage from Christian conservatives over the possibility that McCain would fill out the Republican ticket with Lieberman had become too intense to be ignored.

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