Month: September 2008

I got a kick out of the Issues-O-Meter that Ann Althouse linked earlier. It lists ten issues, each one with a button which, when clicked, makes the figures of McCain and Obama slide back and forth on the scale below so you can see how close or far apart on a given issue they are.…

Long time commenter and e-mail friend linearthinker brought that word to my attention. He quotes this definition: “…the statistical analysis of elections. Psephology uses compilations of precinct voting returns for elections going back some years, public opinion polls, campaign finance information and similar statistical data.” And then he explains why it is important. One quarter…

While I haven’t spent as much time as I perhaps should on the subject of ACORN, last week’s Detroit Free Press article about the group’s connection with local voter fraud was hard to ignore. Now (from Bob Owens, who is not surprised) I see that the group is up to the same thing in North…

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H/T Uppity Woman

This is a story from August 15th so it is a little old. However, it ties in with this story about the interrelations among climate change profiteer Al Gore, climatologist Jim Hansen, and the financial firm Lehman Brothers. So lets look at the connection between George Soros and the now bankrupt Lehman Brothers. George Soros…

An anti-abortion group has sponsored this anti-Obama ad, in which Gianna Jesson (a woman who survived an abortion) points out that “If Barack Obama had his way, I wouldn’t be here.” It’s hard hitting, and intended to highlight the fact that Barack Obama’s position on abortion is to the left of Hillary Clinton and Barbara…

It seems that the Washington Post says that Franklin Raines really wasn’t an Obama adviser. And by the way, you can’t believe what we write in our newspaper. Talk about boosting the brand. The Obama campaign last night issued a statement by Raines insisting, “I am not an advisor to Barack Obama, nor have I…

Reflecting on the discovery that a Tennessee Democratic legislator’s son was the hacker who accessed Sarah Palin’s email account (see Rick Moran’s post on the general subject), Richard Miniter makes a prediction: I predict that the same crowd that said that Palin should have been able to control her 17-year old daughter will defend the…

Yeah. We all knew that. So that is not the story. What is the story? Look at who is saying it. Former President Bill Clinton has largely kept himself out of the public eye since his wife lost the Democratic primary to Barack Obama. However in a rare television interview tonight, the former president called…

It seems like the man with a plan for solving the Iraq War has No Plan for solving the economic crisis. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said on Friday he supported efforts by the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve to shore up confidence in the financial markets and said he would hold…

Time Magazine says this video ad plays the race card. Two black guys stealing from an old white woman. This is hardly subtle: Sinister images of two black men, followed by one of a vulnerable-looking elderly white woman. Let me stipulate: Obama’s Fannie Mae connections are completely fair game. But this ad doesn’t even mention…

I won’t vote for Barack Obama. I can’t, because aside from everything else, his politics and policies are too socialistic for me. However, I have a long history of defending him in this blog — which stretches all the way back to his run against Alan Keyes, which actually prompted me to start “RepublicansforObama.com.” (Yeah,…

H/T Hot Air

You can see a longer (39 minute) version at CBS5 Television. H/T Hot Air

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click for larger image It looks like the era of Global Warming is Over. Icecap reports: Many scary stories have been written about the dangers of catastrophic global warming, allegedly due to increased atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from the combustion of fossil fuels. But is the world really catastrophically warming?…

Ben Smith had this cute little piece out on 16 July of this year on the Raines – Obama connection. An ill-timed — for Obama — profile of former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines, forced out in an accounting mess a few years ago. The Style Section piece reports that he’s recently been taking “calls…

It looks like Congress is planning to leave town without addressing the financial meltdown. Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) — The Democratic-controlled Congress, acknowledging that it isn’t equipped to lead the way to a solution for the financial crisis and can’t agree on a path to follow, is likely to just get out of the way. Lawmakers…