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Jeremiah Wright on estrogen Posted: April 18, 20081:00 am Eastern © 2008  Last Friday in this column I reported on a brewing scandal that would be front-page news on the New York Times if the developments had concerned anyone other than their hero:Barack Hussein Obama.Instead, the new media was left to pick up and disseminate how one of Barack Obama's presidential campaign bundlers is Jodie Evans – a political ally to Venezuelan dictator, Hugo Chavez, and an advocate for Islamic militants.The story was also a yawner for ABC News "journalist" George Stephanopolous, because he didn't see fit to ask a single...

Since Hillary and Obama share the same ideology and, for the most part, the same policy prescriptions, the debate last night in Philadelphia broke no new ground in terms of drawing distinctions between the positions of the candidates. Both railed and inveighed against the usual bogeymen with typical Democratic Demagoguery: ”special interests”; unscrupulous oil companies, whose obscene “windfall” profits need to be appropriated (one wonders: have Democrats missed the inexorable petroleum-hungry industrial rise of China and India?); heartless insurance companies; the machinations and housing crisis-induced manipulations of “greedy” Wall Street (no doubt Hillary will apply her acumen acquired through some...