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Data points from the Windy City The U.S. Treasury is happy to commit $700 billion of taxpayer money to “fixing” the current credit crisis without basing the sum on any particular “data point.” (”We just wanted to choose a really large number,” one Treasury spokesman cheerily observed.) Since there is an absence of data points in such exalted places, I thought readers might appreciate a few as they think about the upcoming presidential election. A friend who lives in Chicago sent me some arresting reflections on the Windy City, stomping ground of Barack Obama, former Community Organizer in Chicago, former...

How dangerous is Barak Obama? Is he too dangerous to be put in a place where he could literally get us all killed? ...why would so many people want to put him in a position where he could do us harm, The conclusion of anyone with common sense who has seen the films of innocent children singing their Obama songs or who has watched the quasi-military chanting and saluting of the Obama Youth in military garb must conclude that there is something very, very wrong with these people. I remember when I first saw the YouTube Children singing their Obama...

ACORN Should Be Obama's Undoing by Michael J. Gaynor We will never know exactly how many fraudulent votes ACORN will be responsible for in the upcoming presidential election, but If the whole truth about ACORN and its long and intimate relationship with rookie United States Senator and 2008 Democrat presidential nominee Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. becomes fully and generally known, on Election Night 2008 Obama and his ACORNites will moan. Very shortly after my article entitled "Blame Obama's ACORN for the Financial Crisis" was posted, I received an email invitation to appear on "Your World With Neil Cavuto" (FoxNews being...

The NY Times has finally gotten around to covering the Obama-Ayers relationship.

"Muslim Outreach Proves A Tricky Issue For A Campaign Lauded As Multicultural," by Sean Higgins for Investor's Business Daily, August 25 (thanks to Diana West): Key Aide Hasn't Really Quit Last month, his coordinator for Muslim outreach, Mazen Asbahi, a Chicago lawyer, quit after reports that he belonged to the board of an Islamic investment fund that included a radical imam. Asbahi has not stopped working on behalf of Obama, though. He appeared at the luncheon to say that despite his official exit he was still "110%" behind Obama and that he was participating in campaign conference calls on Muslim...

We now are down to two presidential candidates. One went to the Ivy League and Harvard Law School as a young man. The other spent years of his youth in a Vietnam Prisoner of War camp and suffered lifelong injuries. Guess which one whines more about his hardships? Barack Obama is many things — a senator, a gifted orator, and a charismatic figure. But he’s also a whiner.

Democrats promised a more restrained approach to spending in their campaign pledges, but apparently not all of them got the message. Or maybe some of them did, but resorting to old spending habits is just too much to give up. Consider Sen. Kent Conrad, the Democratic senator from North Dakota, who Tuesday tried to slip in $4.9 billion worth of emergency funding for farmers in his and other states into the annual budget for veterans programs and military construction projects. What does the farm aid expenditures have to do with veterans or the military? Nothing. But tacking a non-relevant item...