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A Pittsburgh police commander says a volunteer for the McCain campaign who reported being robbed and attacked near a bank ATM in Bloomfield has confessed to making up the story. Police say charges will be filed. More details to follow.

An American Cyber-Column Keep the Faith Rich Galen Wednesday October 15, 2008 * It is that time in the election cycle when the faithful can become confused, the confused can become disenchanted, and the disenchanted can tune out. SIDEBAR Here are the polls through Oct 13 (as listed on RealClearPolitics.com last night): CBS News/NY Times Obama +14 IBD Obama +3 LA Times/Bloomberg Obama +9 Rasmussen Tracking Obama +5 Zogby Tracking Obama +6 Hotline/FD Tracking Obama +6 Gallup Tracking Obama +6 Battleground Track Obama +13 END SIDEBAR * Using the Galen Theory of Poll Interpretation - throw out the high (CBS/NY...

Call to McCain supporters on freerepublic.com from the states of Pennsylvania and New jersey

One of the presidential nominating season's most unusual ideas was proposed again Tuesday, this time by one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress, when Sen. Joseph Biden advocated a "unity" ticket of Democratic Sen. John Kerry and Republican Sen. John McCain.

John McCain has grabbed the lead in a new opinion poll over rival Barack Obama, in the latest sign of accelerating momentum for the Republican as the key phase dawns in their White House battle.

I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.

With the long and contentious Democratic nomination race finally winding down, the attention of media and the public is beginning to shift to the general election. In November, voters will face choice between two rather atypical presidential candidates. For the first time in over fifty years, the party that controls the White House will not be represented by either the incumbent president or the incumbent vice-president. Instead, the Republican Party, which has seen its popularity and electoral fortunes plummet since 2004, will pin its hopes on John McCain - an individual who has frequently clashed with his own party's leadership....

By any measure, President Bush’s speech to the Knesset last week on the occasion of Israel’s 60th birthday was nothing short of stunning. This paean to the bond between the United States and Israel, while personal in many ways, went beyond anything any U.S. president had previously said and expressed sentiments that all people of good faith and seekers of peace can relate to and embrace. The president’s message was that when it comes to Israel, the U.S. would never accommodate terrorist pressure or political importuning from any source, and those who think otherwise had better reevaluate their position. He...

Nader is running. So says MSNBC LIVE

Since announcing my support of Sen. John McCain's candidacy for president recently, the most curious question I have received is "why now?" The simplest answer is "why not now?" Candidates are beginning to emerge. The '08 gates have opened, and now is the time to help a friend who I believe is the most able, proven leader in our midst to be the next president of the United States. What compels me to speak out now about the many reasons I believe my friend of 25 years is the right person to lead this country? Because I believe that John...

John McCain's New Hampshire supporters yesterday welcomed news the Arizona senator is expected to launch a Presidential exploratory committee this week. Establishing the committee is a formal step that allows the four-term senator to raise money and travel the country as he decides whether to seek the nation's highest office. McCain ran unsuccessfully for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2000, although he handily won the New Hampshire primary over President George W. Bush, who went on to become the GOP nominee. Co-chair of McCain's 2000 New Hampshire Presidential primary effort, Executive Councilor Peter Spaulding, R-Hopkinton, said yesterday the exploratory committee...

As the title says, I find FR to have some of the most informed, creative, wonderful people I've ever come across in cyberspace. I find you helpful, talented, knowledgable, and immensly involved. Having said that, I find it disturbing that we're wrong about so many things- in some cases WAY wrong. Case in point, the constant harpings that the MSM is nearling extinction... It's NOT, in fact, the lib media has become even more emboldened and committed to defeating the conservative agenda, now that FOX and Talk Radio are so popular. Most folks still get their news from 10 second...

WHEN POLITICAL HANDICAPPERS START LAYING ODDS on a presidential election, the conversation inevitably turns to Iowa and New Hampshire. Their status as the first caucus and primary states remains critical, but as media scrutiny has amplified their importance, both have morphed into a kind of Heisenberg fishbowl. Otherwise humble locals, constantly harassed by marauding network TV crews to name their candidate, sometimes retort, "I don't know. I haven't met him yet." It's no surprise political prognosticators are starting to look elsewhere for early clues about the race in 2008. Michigan's status as an important early primary state has been overlooked--until...

"Are folks aware of just how meticulously (Sen. John) McCain and his team are going about building their '08 campaign? There's probably not a GOP activist in South Carolina who hasn't been contacted at least once by someone supportive of McCain's candidacy. ... As long as he continues to poll well against Hillary, and as long as the Republicans look as if they could lose power at a moment's notice, McCain should be able to create the air of inevitability that Bush created in 2000." - Hotline editor Chuck Todd in National Journal. Officially, he is not yet running and...