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Friday, August 8
Only His Hair Dresser Knows for Sure!
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 08 Aug 2008 08:22 PM EDT
The mainstream media's reaction to the National Enquirer's reports on John Edwards' "love child" scandal has been reminiscent of the Soviet press. Edwards' name has simply been completely whitewashed out of the news. Say, why isn't anyone talking about John Edwards for vice president anymore? No, seriously -- hey! Why are we going to a commercial break?
I suspect that if I tried to look up coverage of the Democratic primaries in Nexis news archives, Edwards' name will have disappeared from the debates. By next week, Edwards won't have been John Kerry's running mate in 2004.
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Guardian UK's Kennedy: Obama's votes on abortion legislation as an Illinois state senator are being twisted into the right's latest smear
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 08 Aug 2008 04:18 PM EDT
Buckle your seatbelt. Make sure your nausea bag is at the ready. Because the slimiest accusation yet aimed at Barack Obama is on the verge of having its moment in the mainstream media. Within certain fringe elements of the anti-abortion right, it's been an article of faith for some time that Obama's support of abortion rights is so extreme that it encompasses infanticide. As in the deliberate murder of babies after they are born.
(Sorry there, Dan old boy, but partial-birth abortion is infanticide - Roland)
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Opinion: The great oil bubble has burst
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 08 Aug 2008 03:38 PM EDT
If the trend continues into September at anything like the same rate of descent, most of the inflationary spike of the past 12 months will miraculously have been sliced away. This is a dramatic reversal, and it is worth trying to work out why it is happening and what it means.
Just possibly, it means that what investors refer to in shorthand as the great "oil up" story has finally revealed itself not as the fundamental reflection of scarce supply that its adherents liked to claim, but as a simple, speculative bubble that was always going to burst
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VP Cheney's Own Words Debunk LAT's Rutten, Suskind Book
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 08 Aug 2008 02:06 PM EDT
Rutten's claim is an easy one to debunk. Here's Vice President Cheney in a Meet the Press interview with Tim Russert a mere five days after the September 11 attacks:
RUSSERT: Do we have any evidence linking Saddam Hussein or Iraqis to this operation? [Sept. 11 attacks]
VICE PRES. CHENEY: No.
Does it get any simpler than "No"?
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Lowry: The Audacity of Haughty
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 08 Aug 2008 02:50 AM EDT
''It's almost as if they take pride in being ignorant,'' Barack Obama mused the other day, blasting Republicans for ridiculing his exhortation to the nation to make sure its tires are properly inflated. Ah, behold the open-mindedness and cross-partisan understanding. Remember two years ago when Obama was only a media darling and not yet The Anointed One?
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Shiver: McCain's Country-First Life Is a Winner
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 08 Aug 2008 02:47 AM EDT
If Barack Obama presents a target-rich environment in his inflated balloon of media hype over one non-accomplishment after another, John McCain presents the opposite. No hype. No hot air. No blathering, bloated claims about ethereal change and meaningless hope in government to save us. None of this Hollywood stuff for McCain...McCain has been a Country-First guy yesterday, today and always.
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Does O Understand Anything About Ballistic Missile Defense?
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 08 Aug 2008 02:38 AM EDT
If the Middle East -- and the rest of the world -- survives the aggressive rise of Iranian nukes and missiles, it will be thanks to Ballistic Missile Defense -- a completely new technology that is just being put into place. The next ten years will tell the story.
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Justice, American-Style
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 08 Aug 2008 02:03 AM EDT
Over international objections, a foreign-born killer of American citizens is executed in Texas. Would this be allowed to happen in the administration of "citizen of the world" Barack Obama?
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