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With only a few weeks left until election day, let's be blunt: McCain-Palin '08 does not seem to be making headway against the polling. McCain has one more debate in which he could, and we should hope that he does. At the same time, the Senate and House Republicans are going to get crushed. …

What goes around and all of that . . . Remember John Edwards? Who broke the Edwards story? The National Enquirer of course. After that coup, the left, which patently refused to mention the Edwards scandal decided that anything the Enquirer wrote about Sarah Palin had to be the gospel truth. …

Speaking of Tom Rooney being viable in FL-16, there is this breaking news out of the district today. West Palm Beach Congressman Tim Mahoney (D-FL), whose predecessor resigned in the wake of a sex scandal, agreed to a $121,000 payment to a former mistress who worked on his staff and was threatening …

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from the previews alone. It turns out it was a more intense than that, critiquing much more than our response to enviromental issues, with some asking if WALL·E could be a "stealth Michael Moore-style attack on America" and calling the film, "Marxist Philosophy and Environmental Theology." While Christianity Today insists, "it is absolutely not a political movie, no matter how hard a small faction of political bloggers might try to pin it as one," and Christian writer/director Andrew Staton exclaims, "

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harvest of federal tax dollars. The 2005 highway bill included an earmark of $229 million for the Knik Arm bridge in Alaska, which was to have been renamed “Don Young’s Way,” before public outrage forced Congress to remove the earmark. The Directors at RedState identified: In the past few years, Don Young voted to force workers into an open, public ballot on the issue of unionization, he voted against reauthorization of the Patriot Act, he voted to expand government funded stem cell research, and he railed

ome of my readers have accused me of writing "Partisan Tripe", giving preference to Republicans over Democrats, but the truth is, that Democrats are Opposed to drilling, they are opposed to Shale to Oil, they are opposed to Coal Gasification. They instead want us to rely on some future, yet undiscovered energy source that we can't yet afford to power our future, and I'm afraid that we're going to end up like California did a few years ago with

Lawmakers in Louisiana wanted to lift their base salaries from $16,800 to $37,500, pegged to the salaries of the U.S. Congress. Governor Bobby Jindal had indicated that for the sake of comity and getting things done, he would not interfere with the legislature's money grab, least of all with a gubernatorial veto. On Sunday, when CNN's Candy Crowley guest-hosted

While a three-point net gain is not stunning, it is significant that the issue didn’t push voters towards Obama. All of McCain’s gains on the offshore drilling issue came from male voters. Drill here and drill now! http://www.crosstabs.org/blogs/wsjre...ast_in_florida

to follow the polls, but on a civil rights decision, lacking any real precedent and where both sides used originalist arguments (What was the intent of the Founders?), this is surprisingly out of step. Five to four is, in the words of Bill Dupray, "One Vote Away From Revolution." If this seems hyberbolic you might want to consider this aspect of the decision:One aspect of the Heller majority opinion that has not yet attracted the attention of commentariat, but may be greatly important of the long run, is the presence of

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