The Other McCain

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LIVE AT FIVESIX: 09.05.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Parti Quebecois Wins Minority In Provincial Elections Party’s victory over Liberals marred by murder outside campaign HQ Lots Of Talk But No Agreement On Syria, South China Sea Hillary Clinton’s Beijing summit comes up empty McDonald’s To Open Its First Vegetarian Restaurants In India 40% of Indians don’t eat […]

Sociopaths and Democrats

But I repeat myself. A sudden change of plans requires me to leave soon for Charlotte to cover the Democratic National Convention. After the car trouble that turned my trip home from Tampa into a three-day ordeal, I had hoped to spend a few days at home before going back out on the campaign trail, […]

DNC Platform Lets Hamas Off the Hook

Jeff Dunetz reports: Comparing the language of the 2008 Democratic Party Platform and the 2012 Democratic Party Platform a key section was removed. That section called for isolating Hamas “until it renounces terrorism,” so now, evidently, Democrats are OK with Hamas terrorism. Press statement from Matt Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition: “This […]

Best CSI Episode — Ever!

Except it actually happened: Cops probing the deaths of a couple pulled from a river found a purple sex toy, duct tape, a computer hard drive and cable ties on their hired boat, it emerged yesterday. Officers also retrieved a blood-stained sheet stuffed into a carrier bag, a laptop, screws, brackets, lengths of cable and […]

VIDEO @PaulRyanVP: ‘Four Years Into a Presidency and It’s Incomplete?’

Interviewed Sunday on KKTV in Colorado, President Obama was asked to grade his presidency and gave himself an “incomplete.” Maybe he’s grading himself on the curve, but Paul Ryan isn’t impressed with Professor Obama’s academic rigor: CBS News: Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan said in regard to the comment, “Four years into a […]

Blogging 101: Headline Juxtaposition

Food-Stamp Use Climbs To Record, Reviving Campaign Issue — Bloomberg News Mrs. Obama’s 2nd-Term Agenda: ‘Impact Nature of Food in Grocery Stores’ — CNS News Africa’s Elephants Are Being Slaughtered in Poaching Frenzy — New York Times Is there any actual relationship between these headlines? I don’t claim that such a relationship exists, but your […]

Cherokee People, Cherokee Tribe: Elizabeth Warren Can’t Hide Her Lies

Princess Fauxcahantas, the alleged 1/64th Native American, will give a major speech at the Democrat National Convention in North Carolina, ancestral homeland of the Cherokee to whom she implausibly claims kinship. Heap big trouble, Elizabeth Warren: Elizabeth Warren can’t escape her Cherokee heritage controversy even at this gathering of loyal Democrats, as a contingent of […]

Unions Boycott Democrat Convention

Ken Binversie at Watchdog.org explains: North Carolina has a Democratic governor, Bev Perdue, and sent its electoral votes to Barack Obama in 2008, but it’s still a right-to-work state. That means employees in the Tar Heel State are free to choose to join a union — or not. Because of this, North Carolina has the […]

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