Author: Dave

If you want to get deeper into the history of the mortgage meltdown, The Wall Street Journal has a page of links to its past articles. Here are a few titles and dates to give you an idea. • Inside Fannie 03/19/02 – Fan and Fred don’t function like other companies. They’re allowed to pile…

McCain echos what I said in The Best Congress Fannie Could Buy. Obama’s cronies and advisers are the thieves. H/T Instapundit

This is a long and complicated story about how Obama backers were behind the mortgage industry meltdown. It hast to start some where, so lets start with a well known Chicago name Penny Pritzker. It starts with a bank failure. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the case for the 1,406 people who lost much of their life…

The New York Post has some surprising news. Johnny Mac and Sarah Palin have picked up 5 points in New York State. Boosted by the selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate, Republican John McCain has experienced a surge of support among women in heavily Democratic New York state – where he has closed…

I just got an interesting e-mail: My name is Eric Baumer, and I’m a PhD student in the Department of Informatics at UC Irvine. I’m working on a project called metaViz (metaviz.org), which is designed to find potential conceptual metaphors in political blogs. The goal is to draw reader’s attention to patters suggestive of metaphor,…

In this video Tom Brokaw holds up an ∅bama button saying Attention Sarah Palin. Jesus Christ was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a Governor. Thus comparing ∅bama to Jesus. Well they do say he is The One We Have Been Waiting For. So maybe the connection is not so far fetched. Stupid maybe. Not…

The panel interviewing ∅bama was from WTTW (PBS) Chicago. It looks like the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and the connection between it ∅bama and Ayers is going to break out big time now that there is video footage out there where ∅bama admits the connection. Maybe we will finally get some media attention to the results…

It seems things are not going well for The One we have been waiting for. In fact it seems like fewer and fewer people are waiting for him. The Democratic presidential candidate’s slump in the polls has sparked pointed private criticism that he is squandering a once-in-a-generation chance to win back the White House. Party…

The singer is Gretchen Wilson. H/T Vanderleun

You can watch part one of the interview at In Her Own Words. One interesting aspect of this exercise is the fact that when Charlie Gibson interviewed Obama he gave him a bunch of softball questions. Palin was hit hard on all kinds of policy questions. ∅bama? Not so much. Here is the first question…

The ∅ campaign is mocking McCain for being a computer illiterate in their latest ad. NEW YORK (AP) — John McCain is mocked as an out-of-touch, out-of-date computer illiterate in a television commercial out Friday from Barack Obama as the Democrat begins his sharpest barrage yet on McCain’s long Washington career. The new fighting spirit…

For those of you who want to help this go viral it is also available on YouTube

H/T Vanderleun

The Democrat chances in November appear to be declining at a very rapid pace. Their numbers are falling off a cliff. Democratic jitters about the US presidential race have spread to Capitol Hill, where some members of Congress are worried that Barack Obama’s faltering campaign could hurt their chances of re-election. Party leaders have been…

Here is the Charlie Gibson Sarah Palin Interview. Let me start you out with a question or two and then go read the whole thing. GIBSON: Governor, let me start by asking you a question that I asked John McCain about you, and it is really the central question. Can you look the country in…