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Mainstream and liberal media pundits went weak at the knees for former first lady Michelle Obama's Democratic National Convention speech on Monday. Obama's primetime address skewered President Donald Trump and urged voters to choose Democrat Joe Biden like their lives depended on it, and it made an impression. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow said she could not breathe during Obama's speech, ABC's George Stephanopoulos called it a "sermon," and left-wing comedian Stephen Colbert simpered, "I’ll be honest with you. My job is to have a joke for every time somebody says anything in public. After watching Michelle Obama’s speech, I have never...

The institute raising money for an attempt to run the Gaza blockade next year has strong links to a former CIA spy who outed thousands of CIA agents. Throughout this summer and fall, the anti-Israel group “U.S. to Gaza” held many fundraisers around the United States, seeking to raise as much as $370,000 to join a “peace flotilla” to run the Israeli blockade of Gaza. A Pajamas Media investigation has determined that the non-profit organization which accepts the public’s donations and will pay for all of its activities is a shadowy and virulently anti-American group innocuously called the Institute for...

...The 2004 presidential campaign is being fought as aggressively over the airwaves as it is on the hustings. With many states up for grabs, candidates and their allies are using tailored broadcast ads, like the DNC's Pittsburgh spot, which are also called "tracking" or "pre-buttal" ads. These spots, an advertising innovation this election, are prepared for specific markets and run around the time the opposing candidate makes a campaign appearance. Tracking ads are cheaper and easier to produce than national ads, but can be just as effective.... President Bush's campaign cut the first tracking ad, which coincided with a visit...