Author: Dave

Newsweek reports that John Coale, a major Hillary fund raiser, has gone over to John McCain. There is a video from the Republican Convention at the link showing a five minute interview with Mr. Coale. John Coale, a prominent Washington lawyer, husband of Fox TV host Greta Van Susteren and a supporter of Sen. Hillary…

Canadian Liberal Senator Jerry Grafstein has a few words about polls in America. “The polling demonstrates that energy independence is looming as a bigger issue than the economy,” said Sen. Grafstein. “It’s good, but it’s not directing that venom at us, but to the petrol dictators. He goes on to say that Canada wants to…

It looks like the Democrat vow to regain respect for America on the international scene has hit a snag. DENVER, Colo.–Canadian Parliamentarians in Denver last week tried to seek assurances that Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama isn’t singling out Canada as he vows to wean the U.S. off foreign oil and protect domestic jobs.…

Republicans will be running an abbreviated convention due to hurricane Gustav. Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced most of first day’s activities at the Republican National Convention would be cancelled due to incoming hurricane storms in the South. “We are going to suspend most of our activities tomorrow except for those absolutely necessary,” McCain told…

H/T Libertarian Republicans

Eric Dondero of the Libertarian Republican blog has some very kind words for Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin has long been considered to be a libertarian-leaning Republican. As Mayor of Wasila (Anchorage suburb), Palin was friends with local libertarian Republican elected officials, and worked closely with them on tax cut proposals. She is known to have…

This happened a while back but I’m just catching up. The DNC has moved a considerable portion of its operations to Chicago. “This is part of the implementation of the plans Paul [Tewes] discussed last week with the state party chairs,” Finney said. “As part of the efforts to fully integrate DNC operations with the…

If you want to see the whole interview of Sarah Palin talking about energy policy with a transcript visit this site.

A comment from No Quarter which is a pro Hillary site. Comment by Clinton Fan 2008-08-30 06:19:01 I might, too. I gave his campaign $20.08 and told them Hillary sent me! Obama’s strategists miscalculated. I’m mad as hell, not gonna take it any more, and NOT getting over it. Time to put Howard, Donna and…

From the video: “Republicans are much more open to strong women”

Pardon the opening. It was the best of the lot.

Drudge Report says the GOP VP pick is Sarah Palin. Inspired. It will pick off a lot of Democrat women. It will attract the 51% of Americans who want to develop more American oil resources. H/T Instapundit and Eric Scheie via e-mail. Cross Posted at Power and Control

David Zondy is taking a look at resources and the ginned up fear of not enough. As an Englishman living in America, where Marmite is hard to come by, I’m all too familiar with the concept of scarcity, but a lack of resource in a local or a particular instance is a very different kettle…

The video explains how Marxists have destroyed a significant swath of America. The fact that Obama is the Democrat nominee shows just how far the rot has gone. Ex-KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov is the speaker.

Alan Boyle has the latest on the EMC2 fusion experiments. Researchers have finished the first phase of an unorthodox, low-cost nuclear fusion experiment that has generated a megawatt’s worth of buzz on the Internet – and they are now waiting for a verdict from their federal funders on whether to proceed to the next phase.…

This ad will appear at the Republican National Convention. More at: Obama At The Bar Where There Is Truth There Is Fire Obama Threatens TV Stations Ayers On Kerry The Ad Obama Doesn’t Want You To See H/T Power and Control commenter Doug

It looks like Obama may lose his law license for lying on his application. NATURE OF THE CASE: a) making a statement of material fact in connection with a bar application that the applicant knows to be false; b) committing a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s fitness to practice law; c) engaging…

Hillary Clinton called for the selection of Obama as the Democrat Party nominee for President. “In the spirit of unity, with the goal of victory, with faith in our party and our country, let’s declare in one voice, right here, right now, that Barack Obama is our candidate and that he will be our next…