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Article:	A Mandate for Spreading the Wealth	View Article
Published:	11/6/2008 by Common Dreams	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 58 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Business and Economy & Taxes

Article Details: "The top 1% of households received 22.9% of all pre-tax income in 2006, more than double what that figure was in the 1970s," the Working Group on Extreme Inequality reports. "This is the greatest concentration of income since 1928." And: "Between 1979 and 2006, the top 5% of American families saw their real incomes increase 87%. Over the same period, the lowest-income fifth saw zero increase in real income." In the 2008 tax year, households in the bottom 20% will receive $26 due to the Bush tax

Article:	Palin Didn't Know Africa Was A Continent, Says Fox News Reporter	View Article
Published:	11/5/2008 by Huffington Post	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 58 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Now that the 2008 election is over, reporters are spilling all the juciest, and previously off the record, gossip from the campaign trail. Perhaps one of the most astounding and previously unknown tidbits about Sarah Palin has to do with her already dubious grasp of geography. According to Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron, she "didn't understand that Africa was a continent".

Article:	GOP Senator Slams McCain Robo Call	View Article
Published:	10/27/2008 by ABC News	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 66 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Embattled Republican Sen. Susan Collins is calling on Sen. John McCain to stop paying for automated phone calls which describe Sen. Barack Obama as having "worked closely" with "domestic terrorist Bill Ayers." "These kind of tactics have no place in Maine politics," said Collins spokesman Kevin Kelley. "Sen. Collins urges the McCain campaign to stop these calls immediately."

Video:	"Oui, on peut -- Yes we can!" OBAMA ZYDECO FROM LOUISIANA 2008	View Video
Published:	10/21/2008	View Comments (1)
Submitted by:	Picka 66 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article:	Eagleburger Blisters Palin: "Of Course" She's Not Ready	View Article
Published:	10/31/2008 by Huffington Post	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 66 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: A former Republican Secretary of State and one of John McCain's most prominent supporters offered a stunningly frank and remarkably bleak assessment of Sarah Palin's capacity to handle the presidency should such a scenario arise. Lawrence Eagleburger, who served as Secretary of State under George H.W. Bush said on Thursday that the Alaska governor is not only unprepared to take over the job on a moment's notice but, even after some time in office, would only amount to an "adequate" commander in

Website:	Fight the Smears	View Website
Founded:	10/30/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 67 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Description: This is a Barack Oboma website that lists numerous smears against him from the McCain campaign, Republicans and 527s. The website provides reputable independent sources that debunk the smears.

Article:	Obama's Redistribution 'Bombshell'	View Article
Published:	10/27/2008 by Washington Post	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 69 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & Taxes

Article Details: Obama says pretty much the opposite of what the McCain camp says he said. Contrary to the spin put on his remarks by McCain economics adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin, he does not express "regret" that the Supreme Court has not been more "radical." Nor does he describe the Court's refusal to take up economic redistribution questions as a "tragedy." He uses the word "tragedy" to refer not to the Supreme Court, but to the civil rights movement:

Article:	More Tax Deceptions	View Article
Published:	8/12/2008 by FactCheck.org	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 69 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & Taxes

Article Details: McCain misrepresents Obama's tax proposals again. And again, and again. McCain released three new ads with multiple false and misleading claims about Obama's tax proposals. These ads continue what's become a pattern of misrepresentation by the McCain campaign about his opponent's tax proposals.

Article:	"He Lied" About Bill Ayers?	View Article
Published:	10/10/2008 by FactCheck.org	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 69 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: In a TV ad, McCain says Obama "lied" about his association with William Ayers, a former bomb-setting, anti-war radical from the 1960s and '70s. We find McCain's claim to be groundless. Nothing Obama said previously has been shown to be false. In a Web ad and in repeated attacks from the stump, McCain describes the two as associates, and Palin claims they "pal around" together. But so far as is known, their relationship was never very close.

Article:	Republican-funded Group Attacks Kerry's War Record	View Article
Published:	8/22/2004 by FactCheck.org	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 69 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: A group funded by the biggest Republican campaign donor in Texas began running an attack ad Aug. 5 2004, in which former Swift Boat veterans claim Kerry lied to get one of his two decorations for bravery and two of his three purple hearts. But the veterans who accuse Kerry are contradicted by Kerry's former crewmen, and by Navy records.

Article:	"Palin a Whack Job", Top McCain Advisor Says	View Article
Published:	10/28/2008 by Huffington Post	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 69 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: One of John McCain's advisers recently called his running mate Sarah Palin a "diva" after she went off-script at a rally, and suggested she was looking after her own political future over the current campaign. Now another adviser ups the ante in a conversation with the Politico's Playbook, labeling Palin a "whack job."

Article:	Voter Suppression In Colorado By Republican Clerk	View Article
Published:	10/23/2008 by The Zoo	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 70 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Republican county clerk Robert Balink lied to Colorado College students, telling them that if they’re from outside the state they could not register to vote if their parents claimed them as dependents on their tax returns. It seems that Balink’s shenanigans are being used by election officials in Virginia and South Carolina as well.

Article:	Was the 2004 Election Stolen?	View Article
Published:	6/1/2006 by Rolling Stone - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 70 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted - enough to have put John Kerry in the White House. Exit polls for the 2004 Presidential election predicted an overwhelming victory for John Kerry, but had gotten it wrong. What is most anomalous about the irregularities in 2004 was their decidedly partisan bent: Almost without exception they hurt John Kerry and benefited George Bush.

Article:	None Dare Call It Stolen: Ohio, the election, and America's servile press	View Article
Published:	8/1/2005 by Harper's Magazine	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 70 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Whichever candidate you voted for (or think you voted for), or even if you did not vote (or could not vote), you must admit that last year's presidential race was—if nothing else—pretty interesting. True, the press has dropped the subject, and the Democrats, with very few exceptions, have “moved on.” Yet this contest may have been the most unusual in U.S. history; it was certainly among those with the strangest outcomes.

Article:	Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio	View Article
Published:	1/5/2005 by House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 70 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Representative John Conyers, Jr., the Ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, asked the Democratic staff to conduct an investigation into irregularities reported in the 2004 Ohio presidential election. The investigation found numerous, serious election irregularities, which resulted in a significant disenfranchisement of hundreds of thousand of votes in Ohio.

Article:	Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election - Executive Summary	View Article
Published:	6/1/2001 by United States Commission on Civil Rights	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 70 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held public hearings in Tallahassee and in Miami in early 2001. The purpose of the hearings was to investigate allegations that Florida voters were prevented from casting ballots or that their ballots were not counted in the November 2000 presidential election. The commission concluded that many eligible Florida voters were, in fact, denied their right to vote, with the disenfranchisement disproportionately affecting African Americans.

Article:	Obama for President	View Article
Published:	10/25/2008 by Anchorage Daily News	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 71 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, brings far more promise to the office. In a time of grave economic crisis, he displays thoughtful analysis, enlists wise counsel and operates with a cool, steady hand. The same cannot be said of Sen. McCain. And Sarah Palin, despite her formidable gifts, few who have worked closely with the governor would argue she is truly ready to assume command of the most important, powerful nation on earth. To step in and juggle the demands of an economic meltdown,

Article:	Palin Versus McCain's Other VP Hopefuls	View Article
Published:	10/25/2008 by Huffington Post	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 72 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: The blame game over John McCain's increasingly bleak presidential fortunes started in earnest this past week, with anonymous campaign insiders leaking sometimes withering indictments of strategy and personnel. Emerging from the circular firing squad is a consistent theme: Sarah Palin's allies appear irritated over the handling of her candidacy while McCain insiders have come to view the Alaska Governor as remarkably self-serving.

Article:	Lieberman on Palin: "Thank God She's Not Gonna Have To Be President From Day One"	View Article
Published:	10/25/2008 by Huffington Post	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 72 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Sen. Joe Lieberman on Friday skirted a question on whether vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is ready from day one to be president, saying "thank God" she won't have to be. Lieberman, who has helped prep the Alaska governor on foreign policy issues, said his pal and GOP presidential nominee, John McCain, is in good health.

Article:	McCain Advisor Endorses Obama	View Article
Published:	10/24/2008 by Huffington Post	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 73 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: The Wall Street Journal today rounds up the horde of prominent Republicans jumping ship to Barack Obama. Now one of John McCain's actual advisers has switched sides: Charles Fried, a professor at Harvard Law School, has long been one of the most important conservative thinkers in the United States revealed he voted for Obama. Chief among the reasons for his decision "is the choice of Sarah Palin at a time of deep national crisis."

Article:	The Remaking of a Candidate	View Article
Published:	10/23/2008 by Washington Independent	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 73 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Since Gov. Sarah Palin became the Republican vice presidential candidate, she’s been shaped to fit a new image. From debate boot camp at Sen. McCain’s Arizona ranch to a high-end makeover costing $150,000, the Palin on the national campaign trail is not the woman politician that voters here remember. The governor of Alaska seems transformed after a team of seasoned advisers helped craft a new political persona for her. She is not the hockey mom-turned politician they once knew.

Article:	McClellan Endorses Obama	View Article
Published:	10/23/2008 by Huffington Post	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 73 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Business and Economy & US Elections

Article Details: Scott McClellan, President Bush's former press secretary, says he is backing Barack Obama for president. McClellan made the endorsement during a taping of Comedian D.L. Hughley's new show that is premiering on CNN this weekend. The former Bush administration official said he wanted to support the candidate that has the best chance for changing the way Washington works and getting things done.

Article:	How To Chose A Fearless Leader	View Article
Published:	10/22/2008 by www.IfTheBuckStopsHereShootIt.com	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	ConcernedMilf 75 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Who do you want to run your country? You want a statesmen running things, that's who. Everytime a Republican uses the word elite like its a bad word, I cringe. Why do they do that? Elite (also spelled Élite) is taken originally from the Latin, eligere, "to elect". The position of an elite at the top of the social strata almost invariably puts it in a position of leadership. So you want the elite to run our country. By definition!!! Who else? Let's break down our options.

Article:	The McBush Factor	View Article
Published:	10/22/2008 by www.IfTheBuckStopsHereShootIt.com	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	ConcernedMilf 75 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Inheriting the Carl Rove Playbook (McCain facts that effect the election) FROM: RESPECTFUL REPUBLICANS DATE: October 22, 2008 RE: MCCAIN DEFAME CAMPAIGN TO: Still President Team Desperate Times? Well, that's how it would seem to be playing out for your Palin/McCain campaign. Per Chris Mathews of Hardball, "Every time conditions prevail, that is the current status of things causes McCain's poll numbers to dwindle, McCain cancels, curses, fires, stoops,

Image:	Cheney...Argggg	View Image
Published:	10/22/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	ConcernedMilf 75 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	US Elections

Article:	Little Red Riding Wolfowitz: A Word About Cronyism	View Article
Published:	10/22/2008 by www.IfTheBuckStopsHereShootIt.com	View Comments (1)
Submitted by:	ConcernedMilf 75 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Government and Elections

Article Details: The Buck Really Did Stop With This Guy What ever happened to Wolfowitz? He sold us the war in Iraq as a two second venture, then went to the World Bank and was almost the first President to be fired by said bank. Now this same Wolfowitz who sheepishly slunk out of the limelight for most of this year is the same Wolfowitz to lead Bush's New International Security Advisory Board. Wolfowitz, sort of sounds like a Nazi name, don't you think? How is he qualified for this position? And what is

Article:	AP INVESTIGATION: Alaska Funded Palin Kids' Travel	View Article
Published:	10/22/2008 by ABC News	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 75 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business. The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for three daughters to join Palin to watch their father in a snowmobile race, and a trip to New York, where the governor attended a five-hour conference and stayed with 17-year-old Bristol for five days and four nights in a luxury hotel.

Article:	RNC shells out $150K for Palin fashion	View Article
Published:	10/22/2008 by Politico	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 75 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: The Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August. The cash expenditures immediately raised questions among campaign finance experts about their legality under the Federal Election Commission's long-standing advisory opinions on using campaign cash to purchase items for personal use.

Article:	Open Letter to Sarah Palin	View Article
Published:	10/15/2008 by Daily Kos	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	totanaca 75 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Government and Elections

Article Details: As a former fundamentalist, I'd like to call you on what you are doing. The media has found you "opaque" about your religion. Why? You have not been honest about the most important thing about you: the fact that you are a born-again charismatic on a mission from God. Most people who have never been entrenched in the subculture of fundamentalist Christianity may not understand what this really means, but I do. Like you, I was raised in the Assemblies of God and I was a zealous part of th

Website:	Palin as President (Humor)	View Website
Founded:	10/21/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 76 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Description: Click on every object and individual door panels for an inspiring message from Sarah Palin.

Website:	Palin as President	View Website
Founded:	10/21/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 76 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Description: Browse the photo and click on doors and objects.

Article:	Palin Claims the Vice President is 'In Charge of the US Senate'.	View Article
Published:	10/21/2008 by Think Progress	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 76 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Yesterday, Gov. Sarah Palin sat for an interview with KUSA, an NBC affiliate in Colorado. In response to a question sent to the network by a local elementary school student about what the Vice President does, Palin erroneously argued that the Vice President is “in charge of the United States Senate“. "[T]hey’re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family

Article:	Colin Powell Endorses Obama	View Article
Published:	10/19/2008 by Huffington Post	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 78 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Former Secretary of State Colin Powell announced Sunday that he will break with his party and vote for Sen. Barack Obama. "He has both style and substance. I think he is a transformational figure," Powell said on NBC's Meet the Press. "I come to the conclusion that because of his ability to inspire, because of the inclusive nature of his campaign, because he is reaching out all across America, because of who he is and his rhetorical abilities - as well as substance."

Article:	The Palin Plunge: Voters Sour on McCain VP Pick	View Article
Published:	10/18/2008 by Huffington Post	View Comments (1)
Submitted by:	Picka 78 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: The more voters learn about Sarah Palin, the more wary they become. Once the focus of post-convention Republican euphoria, the Alaska Governor is now viewed as a serious liability to the McCain campaign. As it stands, Palin's polling numbers are daunting: with the unfolding economic crisis, her favorable to unfavorable ratings have switched from a positive 40-30, according to a September 12-16 New York Times survey, to a negative 32-41 in an October 10-13 survey.

Article:	Biden lashes out at Palin's 'pro-America' comment	View Article
Published:	10/17/2008 by CNN	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 80 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden ripped into recent comments by his Republican counterpart that suggested that some places in the U.S. are more "pro-America" than others. Palin said in North Carolina, "We believe that the best of America is in the small towns that we get to visit, and in the wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard-working, very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation,"

Article:	Commentary: Time for Palin to answer tough questions	View Article
Published:	10/15/2008 by CNN	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 80 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: What is truly pathetic is that Palin talks tough, but is really scared of facing her own issues. Since she is good at proclaiming that the American people need to know who Barack Obama is, the American people deserve to hear Palin answer if her husband, Todd, a former member of the Alaska Independence Party, agreed with its founder, who wanted to secede from the union. Is there anything more anti-American than wanting to sever ties with the country?

Video:	Misconceptions of Obama fuel Republican campaign - 13 Oct 08	View Video
Published:	10/13/2008	View Comments (1)
Submitted by:	Picka 81 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article:	Palin Family Values	View Article
Published:	10/14/2008 by Salon.com	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 82 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Sarah Palin claims to be a reformer who is going to fight corruption and clean up Washington cronyism. But a bipartisan report establishes beyond a doubt that Palin herself indulged and abetted an illegal and unethical personal vendetta carried out by her husband. Sending her to clean up Washington is like sending the Hatfields and McCoys out to restore civility in rural America.

Article:	Bush Stratgist: McCain Knows He Put Country At Risk With Palin Pick	View Article
Published:	10/14/2008 by Huffington Post	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 82 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Matthew Dowd, a prominent political consultant and chief strategist for George W. Bush's reelection campaign eviscerated John McCain on Tuesday for his choice of Sarah Palin as vice president. "[McCain] knows, in his gut, that he put somebody unqualified on the ballot. He knows that in his gut, and when this race is over that is something he will have to live with... He put somebody unqualified on that ballot and he put the country at risk, he knows that."

Article:	Palin Vindicated?	View Article
Published:	10/13/2008 by Alaska Daily News	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 83 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Sarah Palin's reaction to the Legislature's Troopergate report is an embarrassment to Alaskans and the nation. She claims the report "vindicates" her. She said that the investigation found "no unlawful or unethical activity on my part." Her response is either astoundingly ignorant or downright Orwellian. The report says: "I find that Governor Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute...of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act." In plain English...she broke the state ethics law.

Website:	Alaska Hockey Moms for Obama	View Website
Founded:	10/13/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	John the Painter 84 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	US Elections

Article:	Palin Blurs Line Between Church and State as Governor	View Article
Published:	10/11/2008 by Huffington Post	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 86 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: An Associated Press review of Sarah Palin's record as mayor and governor reveals her use of elected office to promote religious causes, sometimes at taxpayer expense and in ways that blur the line between church and state. Since she took state office in late 2006, the governor and her family have spent more than $13,000 in taxpayer funds to attend at least 10 religious events and meetings.

Article:	Troopegate Report: Palin "Unlawfully Abused Her Authority"	View Article
Published:	10/10/2008 by Huffingtom Post	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 86 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The politically charged inquiry imperiled her reputation as a reformer on John McCain's Republican ticket. Investigator Stephen Branchflower, in a report to a bipartisan panel that looked into the matter, found Palin in violation of a state ethics law that prohibits public officials from using their offic

Article:	David Brooks: Sarah Palin "Represents a Fatal Cancer to the Republican Party"	View Article
Published:	10/8/2008 by Huffington Post	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 87 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Reagan had an immense faith in the power of ideas. His whole life was based on that, and that was also true for a lot of the other conservatives in the Reagan era. But there has been a counter, more populist tradition, which is not only to scorn liberal ideas but to scorn ideas entirely. And I'm afraid that Sarah Palin has those prejudices. [Sarah Palin] represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party.

Video:	Olbermann: It's Palin doing the pallin'	View Video
Published:	10/6/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 90 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Video:	KEATING ECONOMICS: John McCain & The Making of a Financial Crisis	View Video
Published:	10/6/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 90 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Business and Economy & US Elections

Article:	Robert Fisk's World: When it comes to Palestine and Israel, the US simply doesn't get it	View Article
Published:	10/4/2008 by The Independent	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 91 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & Israel vs Palestinians

Article Details: Palestinians ceased to exist in the United States on Thursday night. Both Joe Biden and Sarah Palin managed to avoid the use of that poisonous word. "Palestine" and "Palestinians" – that most cancerous, slippery, dangerous concept – simply did not exist in the vice-presidential debate. Those bold contenders of the US vice-presidency, so keen to prove their mettle when it comes to "defence", hid like rabbits from the epicentre of the Middle East earthquake: the existence of a Palestinian people.

Article:	Examining the candidates	View Article
Published:	10/2/2008 by The Economist	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 91 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Business and Economy & US Elections

Article Details: AS THE financial crisis pushes the economy back to the top of voters’ concerns, Barack Obama is starting to open up a clear lead over John McCain in the opinion polls. But among those who study economics for a living, Mr Obama’s lead is much more commanding. A survey of academic economists by The Economist finds the majority—at times by overwhelming margins—believe Mr Obama has the superior economic plan, a firmer grasp of economics and will appoint better economic advisers.

Article:	The Empty Campaign of John McCain	View Article
Published:	10/5/2008 by Huffington Post	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 91 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: McCain's lost that [the maverick image]. It started with policy reversals, was amplified by the outright lies of the campaign, and culminated in the cynical, reckless, and politics-over-country choice of a running mate who is dangerously unprepared to step into the presidency. How could a man of seemingly deep conviction morph into this caricature? His campaign is empty, with no spiritual or intellectual core; its tactics have devolved into a series of crass surprises and Hail Mary passes.

Article:	Gee, I wish we'd end our love affair with this folksy liability	View Article
Published:	10/5/2008 by The Observer - Patricia Williams	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 93 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: We are now several weeks into the weird humiliation that the Republican party inflicted upon us Americans with their choice of Sarah Palin as their nominee for Vice-President. Here we are, at as precarious a crossroad as history is ever likely to offer up, yet there stands Sarah Palin regurgitating George W Bush's 'good guys-bad guys' baby talk. I despair.

Article:	Palin's Tax Return Mystery: Where are the Per Diems?	View Article
Published:	10/3/2008 by Huffington Post	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 93 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: Palin, it appears, did not pay taxes on the more than $60,000 of travel reimbursements that she and her family members reportedly billed the state during her 18 months as governor. There is a fairly wonky debate over whether she should have been charged for these trips or whether it was accounted for in her salary. John Bogdanski, a tax professor at the Lewis and Clark Law School, told the Huffington Post's Seth Colter Walls that they did qualify as taxable income.

Article:	Make-Believe Maverick	View Article
Published:	10/16/2008 by Rolling Stone - Tim Dickinson	View Comments (2)
Submitted by:	Picka 94 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & US Elections

Article Details: A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty. This is the story of the real John McCain, the one who has been hiding in plain sight. It is the story of a man who has consistently put his own advancement above all else, a man willing to say and do anything to achieve his ultimate ambition: to become commander in chief, ascending to the one position that would finally enable him to outrank his four-star father and grandfather.