“Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: "Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided." We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history... Read Full Story
Richard Quinn, a senior political aide to Senator John McCain is also the owner and editor-in -chief of the neo-confederate SOUTHERN PARTISAN REVIEW QUARTERLY. This association was brought to the attention of the Arizona Senator during the 2000 campaign. Mr. McCain received a letter from PAWs Ralph Neas based on information compiled by FAIR. The story also received the attention of the NYT, New Republic and other mainstream publications. The flap fizzled when McCain lost the South... Read Full Story
What does Chelsea do when she is not on the campaign trail? She holds a $200,000 a year job at Avenue Capital Group, a hedge fund that is positioning itself to make billions in the home mortgage security business and the debt of bankrupt companies. The investment firm of Morgan Stanley will also reap benefits. Stanley recently bought a 20 percent share of Avenue Capital Group. The firm is headed by Marc Lasry and his sister Sonia Gardner.A native of Marrakesh, Morocco Lasry has... Read Full Story
This may be a simplistic example but I’ll use it anyway. When I was seventeen I received my driver’s license my father took me aside and told me a license was not a right but a privilege and the rules of the road are rules and not suggestions.The same logic applies when one seeks the Democratic nomination for president. There are rules of the road sort of speak. One of those rules is after what date a primary can be held. But Michigan and Florida chose to have primaries in violation of the... Read Full Story
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As reported here last week Hillary is broke. Her campaign’s vexation: who is going to give to a campaign where the outcome is assured? She has lost the Democratic nomination for president. Her donor base has dried up, although her spokes-person says a win in Pennsylvania will “reenergize” her base. As reported yesterday in the NYT, the Clintons are sorting through their FOBs to determine friends past from friends present.The New York Senator ran a dismal campaign from... Read Full Story
According to a PPP poll 56 percent of Penns disapproved of Obama’s “bitter” remark. Yet this hasn’t influenced his stand in the polls. The Obama campaign’s handling of the “crisis” is deft. He’s not in a bar somewhere throwing back Crown Royal shooters—a disgusting elixir. Anyway, who picked up the tab?I heard campaign Hillary is near broke, field cutbacks may be coming in North Carolina and Indiana, health care premiums have also gone unpaid. She may have to break-in to that $109... Read Full Story
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Sure some of the American people are bitter...Let us stop beating around the bush on the Reverend Jeremiah Wright matter and use the term that Senator Obama, Lanny Davis and other detractors of his rhetoric is called: Liberation Theology. The main components of this school by which Rev. Wright interprets the existence of a deity is an amalgamation of two components the social gospel of Jesus Christ with the inculcation of critical thinking skills. Rev. Wright represents one end of the... Read Full Story
It’s half time. Two weeks from today voters in the machine-dominated state of Pennsylvania will take to the polls. The questions here are Pennsylvanians tired of the special interest old politics which makes the place easy pickings for lobbyists and nefarious actors, including its Governor Ed Rendell.It’s not an urban myth. Dogs are attracted to fire hydrants. After browsing through hundreds of pages of Clinton tax documents one comes away from the experience that there is always a... Read Full Story
