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Tony Blankley tears the MSM a new one for its blatantly biased reporting as well as the more shocking non-reporting. Especially about Ayers: …worse than all the unfair and distorted reporting and image projecting are the shocking gaps in Obama’s life that are not reported at all. The major media simply have not reported on…

I’m having trouble being optimistic right now. About anything. Which probably means I should stop whining now and delete this post. But if I do that, I will have nothing to say at all. The problem is that it’s bill paying time, and paying bills always reminds me of death. But hey, my checks are…

Instapundit reports: Reader John Marcoux writes: Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) was just on CNBC and said that his mail and calls on the bailout plan are running 50-50: 50% no and 50% hell no. This is what Barney Frank is up against. Even if the Democrats ram through the plan without Republicans signing on, they…

Instapundit has a lot of links on Obama’s efforts to eliminate free speech in America. Obama threatening the licenses of TV stations that run NRA ads Shut up about Barack’s Gun Banning History Obama Attacks – NRA Responds This is politics Vladimir Putin style. Every single Democrat on the ballot needs to be defeated.

According to the New York Sun, the McCain campaign is gearing up to talk about Bill Ayers: WASHINGTON — The McCain campaign is gearing up to criticize Senator Obama for his past associations with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and a former Weather Underground operative, William Ayers, in the home stretch of the presidential race. The…

Two public officials in Missouri are threatening to bring criminal charges against any one who speaks falsely against Obama. You know it should be illegal to blaspheme against The One. In a police state. St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce and St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch are threatening to bring libel charges…

Eric asks Whose fault will it be if he loses?. I think Obama has already answered that question. Listen to the video (about 35 seconds). The answer is at the end.

It’s not too often these days I see a headline that says “Why Obama will lose” so I was fascinated. EDMOND — When Benjamin Franklin was dispatched to France as ambassador of the United States in 1776, he won the hearts of the French through his authenticity. Rather than take on an affected and phony…

I’m usually a patient and reasonable person, but this time, M. Simon has gone too far. At least, that was my reaction (Coco is in unilateral agreement, of course) to the above “Dog Man” picture. Especially when I read Beldar’s link which led to this: …wolves are more equal than caribou, says the Humane Society…

A senior guy in the Obama Campaign says Obama is going to show up at the debate Friday no matter what. John McCain says he will only show up if Congress does what it has to do to resolve the Mortgage Securities crisis. No doubt Obama needs the face time on TV to bolster his…

It appears that Bill Clinton has fired up the Democrat base. Not necessarily in a good way. …the straw that really broke the leftwing camel’s back was Clinton’s statement today to Chris Cuomo on ABC’s Good Morning America defending John McCain’s request for a debate delay until after the financial bailout crises is resolved. Here…

H/T Beldar

Now that John McCain has suspended his campaign and postponed his appearance in the debate, it appears that Barack Obama is planning to go it alone: Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., McCain’s representative in debate negotiations, told The Associated Press that McCain will not attend the debate unless there is agreement on a solution that is…

Obama is going to have to raise a lot of money to maintain his required burn rate. His efforts should keep the television advertising business out of recession for a few more months. Democrat Barack Obama’s campaign has budgeted $39 million to win Florida, and that’s just one of several “robust” set asides for swing…

Mr. Obama, who already has had a Johnson problem, is sticking his oar back in the same waters. Former Fannie Mae chairman Jim Johnson was dumped from Obama’s vice presidential search team, but he’s still playing a behind-the-scenes role on the campaign. Former Senator Tom Daschle, a top Obama backer, emailed a select list this…

If we were going to face the conditions which might trigger another Depression, we couldn’t pick a better man to possibly prevent it than Ben Bernanke: Bernanke is particularly interested in the economic and political causes of the Great Depression, on which he has written extensively. On Milton Friedman’s ninetieth birthday, November 8, 2002, he…

That Obama has all the best friends. A founding member of the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois met in New York City tonight with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Jodie Evans, who co-hosted Obama’s first major fundraiser in Hollywood in February 2007 just after Obama announced his candidacy and is a…

The biggest story of the campaign is that a man running for president was not only a close associate, but was quite possibly even a protege of an unrepentant terrorist. It’s huge, rapidly unfolding news, but aside from yesterday’s WSJ article, it’s still not news to most voters, and I think it’s obvious that the…

Evidently, despite the poll numbers, the Obama Campaign is in melt down mode. The ever popular Jane Pauley, a former NBC regular, is not a big enough draw to get many Obama supporters to come have a look. Quoting from the Times of Northwest Indiana about a panel discussion on the economy: PORTAGE Former television…

I assure you that Democrat assistance for the McCain/Palin team wasn’t intentional. NEW YORK (CBS) ? Politics and diplomacy were not a good mix at Monday’s protest rally against Iran at the United Nations. Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin didn’t participate in the “Stop Iran Now” rally and there were a lot of hard feelings…