Linking Out Loud
A companion linklog to The One Blog
"Whether the Dow is rising or falling, the credit markets are still in terrible shape"
Posted 9/30/08
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Today's rally is a "dead cat bounce"
Posted 9/30/08
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"The End Of McCain's Reputation"
Posted 9/30/08
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Hillary Clinton: "It sounds dire, but there is a risk that commerce could grind to a halt"
Posted 9/30/08
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What should the next excuse for Palin be?
Posted 9/30/08
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Megan McArdle: "anyone who tanks a bank bailout they think might be needed, in order to get a cut in the capital gains tax, deserves to be tried for treason"
Posted 9/30/08
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A good take on why McCain lost the debate
Posted 9/30/08
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Boehner's gamble
Posted 9/30/08
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Ron Paul 2012?
Posted 9/30/08
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McCain, Palin say it's "gotcha journalism" to ask a candidate about an answer to a straightforward foreign-policy question from a voter
Posted 9/30/08
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"Corporate America has just lost a chunk of its value the size of the Indian economy"
Posted 9/30/08
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WSJ: Congress lives up to its 10% approval rating
Posted 9/30/08
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Even Jonah Goldberg says the Republicans blaming the bailout's failure on Pelosi's partisan speech are "crybabies": their "complaint is beyond childish." (He also takes plenty of shots at the Dems, some of them justified.)
Posted 9/30/08
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Politico: Barr wins the day!
Posted 9/29/08
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Nate Silver: McCain is stuck with Palin. I completely agree with this analysis.
Posted 9/29/08
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Memo to Joe Biden: Let Palin Talk
Posted 9/29/08
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The new Republican CW: "let Sarah Palin be Sarah Palin. Let her talk to the media, let her talk to people." Yes! And who knows? Maybe she'll surprise me! And if not, at least we'll know. This is all I've wanted all along.
Posted 9/29/08
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McCain campaign desperately tries to prevent a Palin disaster at Thursday's debate
Posted 9/29/08
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A nifty chart comparing the 2000, 2004 and 2008 polls
Posted 9/29/08
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Putin rears his ugly head!!
Posted 9/28/08
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"Because when I think of who I want at the helm during these treacherous times, it's Grouchy Smurf"
Posted 9/28/08
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Moment of truth approaching for bailout
Posted 9/28/08
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"Two days after a presidential debate many commentators scored as a tie, it's beginning to look like the public saw things differently, as several polls show a small but significant post-debate boost for Barack Obama"
Posted 9/28/08
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Politico: Bush binges; Obama and McCain will pay
Posted 9/28/08
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Surprisingly, after record audiences for conventions, debate gets only average ratings
Posted 9/27/08
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UConn beats Louisville, 26-21
Posted 9/27/08
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Paul Newman dies at age 83
Posted 9/27/08
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Obama vs. the First Amendment. This is not good. Some might even say it's doubleplusungood.
Posted 9/26/08
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"You know it's bad when no one on the Corner will even mention the interview; and when GOP blogger Glenn Reynolds can only link to Althouse. Does Reynolds think Palin is qualified to be governor of Alaska, let alone vice-president of the United States?"
Posted 9/26/08
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Meanwhile, Rich Lowry: "Does Palin know enough to be a national candidate right now? No, but she can be mostly walled off from the press."
Posted 9/26/08
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Kathryn Jean Lopez: "I’m not where my friend Kathleen Parker is -- wanting [Palin] to step aside to spend more time with her family and Alaska -- but that’s not a crazy suggestion. She's right to say that something’s gotta change."
Posted 9/26/08
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UCLA marketing department runs ads in Fresno Bee, trying to fill the Rose Bowl for Saturday's game -- with Fresno State fans?!?
Posted 9/26/08
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"The equivalence...between Obama's misdirections and McCain's recent out-and-out lies is a false equivalence, an example of what Ruth Marcus cleverly called the 'symmetry of sin.'"
Posted 9/26/08
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McCain's Nonsensical Reversal
Posted 9/26/08
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At Ole Miss, they're mad at McCain
Posted 9/26/08
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Has the McCain campaign broken Sarah Palin?
Posted 9/26/08
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Another NRO conservative comes to her senses: "it is increasingly clear that Palin is a problem"; says she should "bow out for personal reasons"
Posted 9/26/08
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Well put: "This is the person John McCain believes could take over as president in an instant and cope with three wars - in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan - and a potential reprise of the Great Depression. Unbelievable."
Posted 9/26/08
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Putting Country Last
Posted 9/26/08
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On debate day, uncertainty looms
Posted 9/26/08
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"It's hard to think of another time when the tenor of the political day so depended on what happens at the opening bell on Wall Street." I predict a steep drop.
Posted 9/25/08
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Hey, why not just have the veep debate today? "Mr Biden is always ready to talk for a couple of hours. And Mrs Palin's ready to fill in for Mr McCain at a moment's notice, right?"
Posted 9/25/08
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"For the sake of the altar of the free market system, do you accept a Great Depression?"
Posted 9/25/08
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Will the bailout deal be Amnesty, Part II for McCain?
Posted 9/25/08
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Indeed: "knowing when you can contribute something and knowing when to avoid complicating an already difficult situation by intruding on ongoing negotiations is what separates grandstanding from leadership"
Posted 9/25/08
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Guardian says Israel "gave serious thought this spring to launching a military strike on Iran's nuclear sites," but Bush said he wouldn't support it
Posted 9/25/08
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$700 billion... or whatever. "We just wanted to choose a really large number."
Posted 9/25/08
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"The McCain camp has accused The [New York] Times of a 'willful disregard for the truth,' but has been unable to demonstrate factual errors in the newspaper's reporting of the Davis-Freddie Mac relationship."
Posted 9/25/08
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"The internet is buzzing today with the rumour that Barack Obama's gaffe-prone running mate Joe Biden will drop out of the race for health reasons - to be replaced by Hillary Clinton." The Internet has been "buzzing" with this rumors for a while, actually. Color me very, very skeptical.
Posted 9/25/08
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OMG! Palin speaks to the press!!
Posted 9/25/08
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I haven't been paying much attention to baseball (too much politics!), but here is ESPN's handy "Hunt for October" page. Major races: White Sox vs. Twins for AL Central, Brewers vs. Mets for NL Wild Card. P.S. Yankees suck.
Posted 9/25/08
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John McCain's Chris Webber moment?
Posted 9/25/08
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"It's not clear to me...that politicizing the [bailout] issue is such a bad thing. Coming up with the right response requires making choices about political values."
Posted 9/25/08
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Sarah Palin to suspend campaign, shoot moose
Posted 9/24/08
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"Last week, Sen. McCain said the fundamentals of the economy were strong. To Katie Couric, he said that the country faces its worst crisis since World War II." Heh.
Posted 9/24/08
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McCain camp says he will NOT debate Friday, no matter what, if there's no bailout deal. I bet Bob Barr would be happy to step in!
Posted 9/24/08
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Sarah Palin on CBS News: not ready for prime time
Posted 9/24/08
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Unnamed top Obama official tells NBC: "The president should be able to multitask… The only thing that has changed is McCain’s standing in the polls." I think Obama is right substantively, but is going to lose politically on this.
Posted 9/24/08
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Country first? "In Congress, members from both parties suggested that a summit attended by both nominees would slow the sense of progress toward a bailout deal that had built throughout the day on Wednesday."
Posted 9/24/08
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CNN's Campbell Brown: "I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any moment. ... [Y]ou claim she is ready to be one heartbeat away from the presidency. If that is the case, then end this chauvinistic treatment of her now."
Posted 9/24/08
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The print journalist barred from Palin's U.N. event yesterday was a reporter for that shameless lefty rag, The Wall Street Journal
Posted 9/24/08
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Biden on McCain: "John is more than wrong — he is dangerously wrong. ... We can’t afford a Commander-in Chief so divorced from reality and from America’s most basic national interests."
Posted 9/24/08
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"Here we have the distilled essence of the McCain campaign's ethos: Perception is reality. Facts don't matter."
Posted 9/24/08
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"Less than a week after balking at the Alaska Legislature's investigation into her alleged abuse of power, Gov. Sarah Palin on Monday indicated she will cooperate with a separate probe run by people she can fire"
Posted 9/24/08
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Biden Gaffe-o-meter
Posted 9/24/08
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More on the 269-269 scenario
Posted 9/24/08
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Obama's Social Security whopper
Posted 9/24/08
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Clay Aiken comes out of the closet
Posted 9/23/08
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McCain lied, his credibility died
Posted 9/23/08
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Here we go again: Intelligence agencies warn that Al Qaeda aims for October Surprise
Posted 9/23/08
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Alan Sullivan says "count-padding" has spread from tropical storms to sunspots
Posted 9/23/08
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TCS Daily: Don't commit national financial suicide for the sake of schadenfreude
Posted 9/23/08
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Treasury agrees to greater oversight of proposed bailout "amid an increasing backlash from a range of economists and lawmakers"
Posted 9/23/08
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Bill Kelley at Harvard separation-of-powers debate: "here's nothing wrong with signing statements, for goodness sake." Also: "In a War on Terror that I believe is real . . . I don't really want Anthony Kennedy running the world."
Posted 9/22/08
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Newt Gingrich on bailout plan: "If Washington wants our money, then it owes us some answers"
Posted 9/22/08
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"Yes siree, the mighty US government could default. That's how much the world has changed."
Posted 9/22/08
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Sarah Palin, celebrity
Posted 9/22/08
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Obama withdraws his troops from North Dakota quagmire
Posted 9/22/08
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Interview with my cousin in the Baltimore Examiner
Posted 9/22/08
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"It is not much of an exaggeration to say that capitalism as we have known it is no more, and that a New Capitalism is in the process of creation"
Posted 9/22/08
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Lawrence Lindsey on "Depression-era Monopoly"
Posted 9/22/08
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Rogue MILFs running amok!
Posted 9/21/08
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FBI serves search warrant against University of Tennessee student in Palin hacking case
Posted 9/21/08
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U.S. wins Ryder Cup for the first time in 9 years
Posted 9/21/08
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"Over the course of the past several days, there has been a rather dramatic shift in this election toward Barack Obama ... Obama is in a stronger position now than he was immediately before the conventions"
Posted 9/20/08
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Buffalo at #5 Missouri. GO BULLS! Heh.
Posted 9/20/08
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End of the world delayed by at least two months
Posted 9/20/08
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National Review: Sarah Palin is "The One"
Posted 9/20/08
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"Statistical models derived from the poll suggest that Obama's support would be as much as 6 percentage points higher if there were no white racial prejudice"
Posted 9/20/08
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New Britain edges Newington, 23-17
Posted 9/20/08
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UConn beats Baylor in thriller
Posted 9/20/08
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Troopergate investigation "will be completed by Oct. 10"
Posted 9/19/08
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Newington football team (1-0) hosts "huge" New Britain squad tonight: "Michigan would be hard-pressed to duplicate that size, much less Newington"
Posted 9/19/08
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Stuart Rothenberg: As Colorado goes, so goes the nation
Posted 9/19/08
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Limbaugh: Obama is stoking racial antagonism
Posted 9/19/08
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4 ways to turn a recession Into a depression
Posted 9/19/08
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Blaming Barney Frank
Posted 9/19/08
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Blaming Alan Greenspan
Posted 9/19/08
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Tennessee student, son of state representative, suspected in Palin hacking case?
Posted 9/18/08
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WSJ: the Fed has committed $380 billion of its $888 billion to bailouts. And counting.
Posted 9/18/08
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My old middle school evacuated due to mercury spill caused by broken thermometer in 8th Grade classroom. P.S. Kellogg rules, Wallace drools
Posted 9/18/08
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USC grad student stabbed to death at 28th and Orchard
Posted 9/18/08
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Breaking news: the SEC has no offense
Posted 9/18/08
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"Were the financial crisis to end today, the costs would be painful but manageable, roughly equivalent to the cost of another year in Iraq. Unfortunately, however, the financial crisis is far from over..."
Posted 9/18/08
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Upsides of the financial crisis: "Huge numbers of Wall Street executives will have the time to raise their children"
Posted 9/18/08
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"McCain's convention bounce seems to have run out, putting us back where we were before the two conventions: A very close race all across the country"
Posted 9/18/08
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Stop the presses! Sarah Palin answers a question!
Posted 9/17/08
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The story behind the Palin e-mail hacking
Posted 9/17/08
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Alan Sullivan has "a profound misgiving about the ad hoc nationalization of our financial system during a crisis of capitalism"
Posted 9/17/08
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War with Pakistan?
Posted 9/16/08
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I, for one, welcome our tiny water bear overlords
Posted 9/12/08
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Bob Barr asks Ron Paul to be his running mate; Paul says no; Barr then disses him
Posted 9/11/08
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"Invoking your constitutional rights doesn't pose a threat to officer safety. ... Acting like a lawyer doesn't mean you have a gun or a knife."
Posted 9/11/08
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Quote of the day: "Sexual relationships with prohibited sources cannot, by definition, be arms’ length"
Posted 9/11/08
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Obama, McCain declare political "ceasefire," will go to Ground Zero together this afternoon
Posted 9/11/08
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Obama announced plan to “stay focused on John McCain rather than be distracted” by the Palin phenomenon. About damn time!
Posted 9/11/08
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Karl Rove is right: Obama needs to remember he's running against McCain, not Palin
Posted 9/11/08
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Bush Said to Give Orders Allowing Raids in Pakistan
Posted 9/11/08
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National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru: "the Republicans are coming across as whiny grievance-mongers"
Posted 9/10/08
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Barack Obamania makes way for Sarah Palinmania
Posted 9/10/08
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Dem fundraiser on Obama's tumble: “I’m so depressed. It’s happening again. It’s a nightmare.”
Posted 9/10/08
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Obama: "Spare me the phony outrage" over "pig" gaffe. "The McCain camp would much rather have this [campaign] be about phony and foolish diversions." Indeed. Though it was dumb to use that particular idiom (notwithstanding that he, and McCain, have both used it before).
Posted 9/10/08
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Obama campaign "totally reactive"; seems to have permanently lost its mojo from the primaries. I'm thinking it'll be President McCain. Yes, I am feeling pessimistic this morning.
Posted 9/10/08
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Palin-mania watch: "I Dream About Sarah Palin. Do You?"
Posted 9/10/08
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Obama did not call Sarah Palin a pig
Posted 9/9/08
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Has Kim Jong-Il been dead for five years?
Posted 9/9/08
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"The McCain campaign is betting its best chance to win is by aiming for the gut, not the heads, of voters." No kidding.
Posted 9/9/08
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The liberal media strikes again: The Wall Street Journal points out that Palin is lying when she claims she "told Congress thanks, but no thanks for that Bridge to Nowhere"
Posted 9/9/08
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MSNBC drops Olbermann, Matthews as anchors of live political events; David Gregory to take over
Posted 9/8/08
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Cold War II update
Posted 9/8/08
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Tom Brady out for season after knee injury in Patriots' opener; entire New England area placed on suicide watch
Posted 9/8/08
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Power Line: the arguments "that Sarah Palin's credentials are adequate...are mostly laughable. ... If Democrats made these sorts of arguments on behalf of a candidate for national office, conservative commentators would excoriate them for it."
Posted 9/8/08
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"Who does John McCain think he's kidding? And what on earth was he thinking? This was a rash, impulsive, reckless pick. ... It shows a deep unseriousness about governing the most powerful nation on earth at a time of great peril."
Posted 9/8/08
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Palin's first gaffe: doesn't know what Freddie & Fannie Mac do. (Neither do I, but I'm not running for vice president.)
Posted 9/8/08
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Victimization and grievance all around
Posted 9/8/08
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Obama's oops: "my Muslim faith"
Posted 9/7/08
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Trojans-Buckeyes game is now #1 vs. #5 after tOSU's lackluster win over Ohio; East Carolina ranked #14
Posted 9/7/08
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David Frum pleads with Palin's conservative worshippers: "Please demand more and better knowledge before you commit yourselves to a political leader"
Posted 9/6/08
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No media access to Palin for two weeks?? WTF?!?
Posted 9/6/08
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Meanwhile, at Notre Dame Stadium, "the Irish were barely good enough to beat what may be one of the worst teams in Division I-A." Ugh. Here we go again?
Posted 9/6/08
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Ladies and gentlemen, East Carolina is for real
Posted 9/6/08
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In the most absurd attempt yet to clamp down on human emotion in college football, Washington loses to BYU on blocked extra point after 15-yard "unsportsmanlike conduct" penalty called for Jake Locker's celebration of a touchdown with 2 seconds left
Posted 9/6/08
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Ugh, the Dems really need to avoid creating headlines like this: "Obama Campaign National Finance Committee Member Criticizes Palin's Parenting"
Posted 9/5/08
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Charles Krauthammer: "Here were Republicans -- the party that controlled the White House for eight years and both houses of Congress for five -- wildly cheering the promise to take on Washington. I don't mean to be impolite, but who's controlled Washington this decade?"
Posted 9/5/08
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"Either it's okay to delegate one's parenting responsibilities to pursue political ambitions, or it's not"
Posted 9/5/08
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There has not been a single mention of the word "Afghanistan" at the GOP convention so far
Posted 9/4/08
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Advice for the Dems: attack McCain, ignore Palin
Posted 9/4/08
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Palin speech fires up both bases?
Posted 9/4/08
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That Movie Voiceover Guy dies
Posted 9/4/08
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Gustav aftermath in battered Baton Rouge forces postponement of LSU-Troy game
Posted 9/4/08
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NRO's Jim Geraghty: Palin's speech "hit almost every note just right. Did the Obama fans feel this way [about his speeches]? Is this what their exultation feels like?"
Posted 9/3/08
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"Let it be said that if there was one celebrity in this race a week ago, there are two now"
Posted 9/3/08
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Palin's "lines about Obama were brutally cutting and possibly over the top in places. But she's a far better messenger than an angry white man."
Posted 9/3/08
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Parachutists accidentally deliver game ball to Duke stadium instead of UNC stadium
Posted 9/3/08
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Tonight's schedule: Romney, Huckabee at 9pm hour; Giuliani, Palin at 10pm hour
Posted 9/3/08
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Peggy Noonan calls Palin "a real and present danger to the American left." The utter disconnect between pro-Palin and anti-Palin thought is astounding: it's truly "love her or hate her," to a remarkable degree
Posted 9/3/08
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GOP roll call will be after prime time
Posted 9/2/08
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The Fred Thompson drinking game: "We are drinking every time he clears his throat"
Posted 9/2/08
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How would an "Eagleton Scenario" unfold?
Posted 9/2/08
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Palin babydaddy to attend GOP convention
Posted 9/2/08
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Heh. I had the exact same reaction.
Posted 9/2/08
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"All that complaining over the years by Republicans about identity politics and political correctness? Yeah, never mind."
Posted 9/2/08
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In an obvious lie, McCain's campaign manager claims McCain camp isn't "grandstanding" about Gustav
Posted 9/2/08
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Nate Silver argues that experience is more important for a vice president than for a president
Posted 9/2/08
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GOP primary-calendar plan opens the door to chaos
Posted 9/2/08
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McCain campaign manager: Election not about issues
Posted 9/2/08
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"With Hillary Rodham Clinton and Teddy Kennedy disqualified as bogeymen this cycle, the GOP is reduced to scary images of Chris Dodd and Byron Dorgan"
Posted 9/2/08
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Headline of the day: "Sarah Palin Is Not a Horse"
Posted 9/2/08
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5 things to watch tonight at the RNC
Posted 9/2/08
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Houston, we have a bounce!
Posted 9/2/08
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The era of the Smelley 'Cocks has begun
Posted 9/2/08
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USC leapfrogs Georgia, tOSU after shellacking Virginia on road while Bulldogs, Buckeyes were routing pee-wee league teams at home
Posted 9/2/08
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Study of high-school popularity reveals that "climbing out of the geek ghetto is hard"
Posted 9/2/08
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Alan Sullivan compares Obama to Saruman
Posted 9/2/08
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UCLA upsets Tennessee in overtime
Posted 9/2/08
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Dutch claim U.S. will strike Iran in coming weeks
Posted 9/1/08
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