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From the beginning, there has been speculation that Barack Obama has been an apologist for the Islamic world. His campaign rhetoric during the 2008 presidential campaign in which he indicated that he would sit down with leaders of Islamic nations such as Iran without precondition drew the ire of many who viewed him as soft on the war on terror. Then, once in office, the dynamics of our battle with the forces of Islamic extremism took an even darker turn when the terms used to describe the conflict were changed. No longer were we fighting a war on terror. We...

MarketWatch Columnist Jon Friedman Warns The Media Live To Build You Up, Then Knock You Down The Sarah Palin Phenomenon is doomed. But it's not because of her lack of foreign policy experience or her deer-in-the-headlights look during part of her interview last week with ABC's Charles Gibson. The primary reason why the Palin bubble will burst is that the media will decide that they are bored with her. They'll need to move to shine a light on a fresh issue or individual. This is how the world works in the age of 24/7 news cycles. Whether the subject is...

I know there are many Republicans, Independents and, of course, Democrats who are baffled by Senator McCain's choice of Governor Palin as his running mate. In the past, the Senator (whom I know personally and like) has admitted to making decisions without thinking them through sufficiently. He just lives with the consequences, he said. Now, of course, if he's elected, we live with the consequences. I hope for everyone's sake he spends more time thinking. In other words, to paraphrase Sarah Palin, I'm not worried about how much our leaders blink, I'm worried about how much they think. Unless people...

After speaking before thousands of cheering journalists at the Unity 2008 convention in Chicago July 27, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) answered a question from the audience about the possibility of a federal apology to Native Americans. Quoted by a Honolulu Star-Bulletin reporter attending the convention, Obama said: There’s no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we’ve got some very sad and difficult things to account for. … I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged. …...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A controversial commercial making headlines across the country is getting turned away from some TV stations in North Carolina. WSOC-TV decided not to put the ad on television because of its implications of racism. WSOC-TV believes it is inappropriate to air. It questions Barack Obama's patriotism and judgment. The ad also said Beverly Perdue and Richard Moore should not be North Carolina's next governor because they endorsed Obama. Republicans and democrats across the country said the commercial should not air, but North Carolina's Republican Party refuses to pull it.