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The mainstream media have gone over the line and are now straight-out propagandists for the Obama campaign. While they have been liberal and blinkered in their worldview for decades, in 2007-08, for the first time, the major media consciously are covering for one candidate for president and consciously are knifing the other. This is no longer journalism; it is simply propaganda. (The American left-wing version of the Volkischer Beobachter cannot be far behind.) And as a result, we are less than seven weeks away from possibly electing a president who has not been thoroughly or even halfway honestly presented to...

Last week really ought to have been the end of the McCain campaign. With the whole country feeling (and its financial class acting) as if we lived in a sweltering, bankrupt banana republic, and with this misery added to the generally Belarusian atmosphere that surrounds any American trying to board a train, catch a plane, fill a prescription, or get a public servant or private practitioner on the phone, it was surely the moment for the supposedly reform candidate to assume a commanding position. And the Republican nominee virtually volunteered to assist that outcome by making an idiot of himself...

Obama Tries to Flush Rush Wednesday, September 24, 2008 By L. Brent Bozell III For two decades, going back to the Willie Horton ads of 1999, we’ve heard liberals accuse Republicans of race-baiting. Throughout this campaign, there have been endless whispers, suggestions, and outright accusations that GOP could/would play the race card because Obama is half-black. Now Barack Obama has found his bizarre version of Willie Horton, and it’s…Rush Limbaugh. Obama sneakily tried to air a Spanish-language TV ad telling Latinos that Limbaugh thinks Mexicans are all stupid and Mexican immigrants should all shut up and go home, and that...

What a strange country. Last month, one of our two major political parties nominated an African American as its candidate for president of the United States. Historic progress to be celebrated? Apparently not. A few weeks and polls later, and some are already bemoaning the rampant racism that might keep a black man from ascending to the presidency. Hey, Barack Obama could not have clinched the nomination without votes from white Americans. The other party isn't supposed to just concede the election based on skin color. Voters shouldn't have to choose based on race when they disagree on issues or...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is thinking of giving a speech to the nation on the ailing financial markets, the White House said Wednesday, amid persistent criticism of a $700 billion bailout plan and the Federal Reserve chairman's warning that economic growth depends on it. Ben Bernanke, the Fed chief, told Congress' Joint Economic Committee that the Federal Reserve will "act as needed" to minimize disruptions to business life. His appearance came a day after he and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson heard withering criticism of the Bush administration's proposed $700 billion bailout plan and not long after Bush said he was confident an agreement would be reached soon on a "robust" plan to relieve the stress.</p>

Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., introduced a bill to the House of Representatives that seeks to prevent Islamic law from gaining a foothold in the U.S. legal system, as it has in other countries. Tancredo introduced HR 6975, the Jihad Prevention Act, last week. If made into law, the bill would allow American authorities to prevent advocates of Islamic law, or Shariah, from entering the country, revoke the visa of any foreigners that champion it and revoke naturalization for citizens that seek to implement it in the U.S. The radical form of Shariah includes several statutes objectionable to Western minds, including...

In a shocking political twist, the New York Times revealed Wednesday that McCain spokesman Harold Scrottle had walked by the Fannie Mae building in Washington, D.C. several times in the last few years, implicating McCain in the current housing mess. Scrottle did not walk by the building during the tenure of Franklin Raines, insulating the NYT from charges of racism for their exclusive report. UPDATE: The NYT is now reporting that Scrottle in fact has never been to DC, so he could not have walked by the building. They are standing by their story. Read more at edwardsreport.com,the right wing...

ARLINGTON, VA -- Today, McCain-Palin 2008 released its latest web video, entitled "Where is Obama?" The web video highlights Democrats, Republicans and Hillary Clinton supporters in Chicago speaking to Barack Obama's lack of leadership in the Hispanic Community in Illinois. While Barack Obama promises much for the Hispanic-American community on the campaign trail, these Democrats and Republicans wonder where Barack Obama has been during his years in the Illinois State Senate and United States Senate. The web video will be featured today during a press conference in New Mexico. Video at link

PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama is maintaining a three-point, 47% to 44%, edge over John McCain among registered voters in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update for Sept. 21-23, unchanged from Tuesday's report. Obama had moved to as much as a six percentage point lead over McCain last week in the midst of the intensive news coverage of the Wall Street financial crisis, but the race has, in the last several days, settled back to the same type of slight edge for Obama that typified the race for most of the summer prior to the political conventions. Meanwhile, separate...

Religious Supernatural Experiences According to a new survey, almost half of Americans say they have had at least two supernatural experiences in their life, and conservative Protestants are more likely to report such an experience than religious liberals. The Baylor Religion Survey reports that the most common religious experiences reported by Americans are: Protection from harm by a guardian angel (55 percent); Called by God to do something (44 percent); Witnessing a miraculous healing (23 percent); and Hearing the voice of God (20 percent). See Christian Post. These findings were released in a book entitled What Americans Really Believe, which...

How exactly did Barack Obama pay for his Harvard Law School education? The way the Obama campaign has answered the question was simply hard work and student loans. But new questions have been raised about Obama’s student loans and Obama’s ties to a radical Muslim activist who reportedly was raising money for Obama’s Harvard studies during the years 1988 to 1991. The allegations first surfaced in late March, when former Manhattan Borough president Percy Sutton told a New York cable channel that a former business partner who was “raising money” for Obama had approached him in 1988 to help Obama...

PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama is maintaining a three-point, 47% to 44%, edge over John McCain among registered voters in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update for Sept. 21-23, unchanged from Tuesday's report. Obama had moved to as much as a six percentage point lead over McCain last week in the midst of the intensive news coverage of the Wall Street financial crisis, but the race has, in the last several days, settled back to the same type of slight edge for Obama that typified the race for most of the summer prior to the political conventions. Meanwhile, separate...

Congress is about to pass legislation on Friday that will have a major effect on our country's economy. What is this bailout all about? And what effect will it have on our current economic problems? Let's follow this through in the form of a story. Jimmy Jones (no, not THAT Jimmy Jones) wants to buy a house. He and his wife find the perfect one and purchase it through their local mortgage lender. After closing, the mortgage lender turns around and sells the loan "up the tree" and it eventually ends up being bought by Fannie Mae (or Freddie Mac)...

Executive Summary On the eve of the first presidential debate, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and Public Opinion Strategies conducted a bipartisan survey of the presidential battleground states for National Public Radio. The survey was based on interviews with 800 likely voters in the 14 states that will decide the presidency. The survey shows intense interest and nearly universal intention to watch the upcoming debates: 62 percent are “very likely” to watch the first presidential debate (up from 51 percent in 2000 before the Gore-Bush debate). Expectations are high for Obama, as a near majority of 49 percent expect him to...

The Swamp - Tribune's Washington Bureau, DC - 59 minutes ago Biden clearly didn't advance the team with recent comments he made at a Maumee, Ohio campaign stop. He indicated he didn't support using coal to provide

The world is about to run out of the internet addresses that allow computers to identify each other and communicate, the man who invented the system has told The Times. Vint Cerf, the “father of the internet” and one of the world’s leading computer scientists, said that businesses and consumers needed to act now to switch to the next generation of net addresses. Unless preparations were made now, he said, some computers might not be able to go online and the connectivity of the internet might be damaged.

Zombies say, "Get hand off my body. Get hand into my stomach! Ahrrgg." Zombies say they're switching from the walking dead to the marching dead as they marshall forces to counter Pro-Life rallies and parades. The half-dead, half-living flesh eaters say pro-life forces are a threat to their individual liberties and Constitutional rights to privacy. Most pro-choice Zombies also believe pro-lifers are bitter moralists, in addition to tasting a little gamey. Aargh Bleeh, semi-attached head of the Zombies for Choice Arghhh, said Zombies want to make their own decisions when it comes to life and death. "Who say when dead,...

Today the New York Times launched its latest attack on this campaign in its capacity as an Obama advocacy organization. Let us be clear about what this story alleges: The New York Times charges that McCain-Palin 2008 campaign manager Rick Davis was paid by Freddie Mac until last month, contrary to previous reporting, as well as statements by this campaign and by Mr. Davis himself. In fact, the allegation is demonstrably false. As has been previously reported, Mr. Davis separated from his consulting firm, Davis Manafort, in 2006. As has been previously reported, Mr. Davis has seen no income from...

Knuckleheads Barry and Joe poke each other in the eyes; where is the third Stooge in this act?The Obama campaign, with Barack Obama's approval ("I'm Barack Obama, and I approved this ad") published a video that belittles John McCain for his inability to use a computer or send E-mail: an inability due to service-related hand injuries that prevent him from using a keyboard. The ad also belittled middle aged and senior voters in general ... The ad was so reprehensible, in fact, that Senator Joe Biden condemned his own running mate for releasing it. "I'm Joe Biden, and I Didn't...

New evidence strongly suggests that Barack Obama has been less than forthcoming about the role that unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers may have played in choosing him to lead the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). Through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, I have obtained an e-mail message from former CAC executive director, Ken Rolling, to Warren Chapman and Anne Hallett, two of CAC’s three co-founders. Bill Ayers was the third founder. In Rolling’s message, sent the morning after I first requested access to CAC records housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), he admits to avoiding...