Author: Dave

Stephen Green explains what it is like covering the DNC. To give you an idea, gentle reader, what a political convention is like, I’ve had a total of seven hours sleep in the last two nights, I’ve walked about ten miles, acquired a VERY nice tan, attended I don’t know how many protests, filed two…

One of them is Alexi Giannoulias. Giannoulias also hosted a fund-raiser for Obama in Chicago in September, 2007, omitting it from his public schedule and keeping it closed to the press. Could it be that Obama didn’t want the press asking questions about a New York Post article published that same morning entitled “Obama’s Mob-Tie…

H/T The Belmont Club

Larry Johnson is having a look at the response by the group running the Obama/Ayers ad to the suit filed with the Justice Department asking them to block the airing of the ad. The Obama Memo argues initially that AIP’s substantial and thorough 167-page documentation and research in support of the Ad, which was provided…

I was visiting Althouse and came across this comment by a guy bashing Republicans: They prefer war to diplomacy Just anther instance of the left not getting it. War is diplomacy by other means – Clauzwitz. See, it works like this – if you have a carrot and a stick you can accomplish more than…

James Carville, Bill Clinton’s political strategist and a pretty smart guy, says the Democrats need to get on message. If they can find one. (CNN) — Have the Democrats wasted the first night of the convention? Yes, says Democratic Strategist and CNN contributor James Carville. Speaking on CNN, Carville said the party was too soft…

Bill Bradley is having a few words about the Obama vs McCain Campaigns and thinks because McCain is not getting much Shrinking Media attention for his campaign videos that McCain is losing the fight. And naturally the conventional media doesn’t link to the ad … Doh! Except 45% of the public get their information from…

Senator Obama has some associations he is not proud of. He wants to keep the above ad off TV. So obviously it is time to make the ad go viral. Email it to a friend. Heck. E-Mail it to an enemy. You can never get too much exposure for this sort of thing. Sen. Barack…

Part 1 Part 2 Reason Magazine has an early report. Earlier this year, police in Tallahassee, Florida raided the home of college student Rachel Hoffman, who friends say was a bit of a hippie-ish free spirit, and concede that she shared and sold small amounts of marijuana and MDMA within her social circle. Hoffman was…

I’m going to go into some detail on the ships which is interesting in and of itself. However, the most interesting part to me is that the warships had to transit Turkey to arrive in the Black Sea. That I believe is the most critical development in the region of Georgia. Turkey is supporting Georgian…

I have been looking into a possible Obama – Chicago gang connection. So far all I have to go on is rumor and the knowledge that gangs such as the El Rukns and the Black P. Stone Nation are very big in Chicago politics. Then there is the Jesse Jackson, Jesse Jackson Jr. connection to…

In a posted opinion piece “Biden pick shows lack of confidence” a pundit suggests that Biden brings a lot to the table in terms of national security credibility. Biden brings a lot to the table. An expert on national security, the Delaware senator voted in 2002 to authorize military intervention in Iraq but has since…

No Quarter has this interesting bit of gossip: I asked a friend who knows someone who has seen the video to Michelle Obama making disparaging remarks about “white” folks. You know, those angry God hugging, gun toting mouth breathers. He wrote me the following: But there is a very strange air about Republican operatives. In…

So who will be answering the 3 AM phone call in an Obama Administration? Joe Biden

Tom Maguire at Just One Minute has lots more on the Obama/Ayres relationship here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here. Whew. And that is just in the last week. Update: A little more on Ayres’ educational philosophy. Scroll down.

The choice of Joe Biden for VP on the Obama ticket is a sign of desperation. I think I’m going to go over to DU and Kos to see if I can capture the howling. If I get anything tasty I’ll do a post.

Yesterday I did a piece on the decline of the fortunes of Iran and its best buddy Hizballah No Deal. Today I got some news that fleshes out the story. Since the 2008-09 marketing year began on June 1, Iran has bought more than one million tons of hard red winter wheat directly from the…