Wednesday, October 15:

Obama Exposed Obama is pro war. Pro FISA. Pro Isreal. Pro war with Afganistan, Iran, etc.

David Swanson: Nadir Warm up for tonight's debate without watching the pundits.

Mary MacElveen: Final presidential debate: The historical significance in choosing Hempstead, NY (1 comments) To the American people, this 'Hempstead girl' says I have lived through two historic moments my time and wish that for our nation. I would love nothing more for a hat-trick to borrow a hockey term and that is for America to score three goals in the electoral process from my point of view and where I lived.

David Swanson: What If God Loses the Election? (5 comments) Then what?

Brock Novak: Tonight's Debate Theme: "It's No Longer OK To Be OK; It's Unacceptable Not To Be Great" (3 comments) Here's a new "vision for excellence" for this country which should be tabled tonight by Bob Schieffer at the Hofstra Presidential Debate.

The Choice: Endorcement for President At a moment of economic calamity, international perplexity, political failure, and battered morale, America needs both uplift and realism, both change and steadiness. It needs a leader temperamentally, intellectually, and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe. That leader's name is Barack Obama.

winston: We're all fearful, but we need hope! Let's consider this. If it gets into the mass culture it was prevalent. What is a better example of this than the lyrics of the time? Rock groups in the 1960 era echoed sentiments-sometimes presaged those of the youth of the period. Congressman Lewis agrees with the Rascals--a group whose popularity reached its apex during the time period Lewis is discussing, that mini-me's campaign has similarities to Wallace's.

Roy S. Carson: Molina says President Hugo Chavez is a political coward Molina is calling for a full parliamentary debate on the President's unilateral decision and says that there's something sinister how continuing daily power blackouts, food shortages and out-of-control crime figures afflicting Venezuela are suspiciously part of what he believes to be a plan by Chavez and his administration to bring about a "self-coup" in which a state of national emergency could be declared

Hank Paulson and His Wall Street Cronies Move to Plan B Paulson sat down with his friends, the leaders of the largest financial institutions in America that got us into this mess. Namely, Ken Lewis, CEO of Bank of America; Jamie Dimon, CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase; Lloyd Blankfein, Paulson's successor at Goldman Sachs; John Mack, CEO of Morgan Stanley; and Vikram Pandit, CEO of Citigroup.

Backlash: Six Challenges to McCain's Racist Fearmongering Carl Bernstein, Kai Wright, Richard Dreyfuss, Campbell Brown -- and more -- take McCain's fearmongering to task

If You Thought Cheney Was Bad, Watch out for the "First Dude" The telling vignette shows Todd Palin's position in the governor's office. Dressed in a business suit, seated behind a big conference table with state documents in front of him, he tried to tell the state's top cop how to do his job.

Jim Stinson: Come Down off Olympos When the building's on fire, you can't refuse to help put it out because you think the sprinkler system is too inadequate to be improved.

Corporate Greed Our politicians are bought and paid for. Our elections are rigged. Our democracy a lie. Vote Strike, take your country back. Youtube video, enjoy.

WHAT WENT WRONG--A REGULATOR UNLISTENED TO ALAN GREENSPAN AND ROBERT RUBIN IN 1998 DERAIL WHAT MIGHT HAVE SAVED US ALL

Stephen Crockett: Biden Helping A Working Family: An Untold Story (1 comments) Article tells the story of the Yetman family of 11 facing foreclosure and what Senator Biden is doing for them. Story is about how the Senator from Delaware went to bat for this Pennsylvania family BEFORE he was picked as the Democratic VP candidate by Obama.

Eileen Fay: About Moose, Palin, and Insecurity (3 comments) The words of Thoreau are true today, as they were 150 years ago. But, Americans just need to hear them.

Ernest Partridge: The Road to Catastrophe (3 comments) The American public has been led along a road to economic ruin by three dogmas that are unsupported by the historical record, by empirical evidence, and by practical experience: social atomism, market fundamentalism, and spontaneous order. The essay closes with a list of policy proposals designed to lead the U.S. out of its present economic crisis.

Bernard Weiner: Foundational Dry-Rot the Work of Greedy GOP Termites (1 comments) Those political/financial systems that ignore reality don't last all that long. Laissez-faire capitalism, as engineered under Republican deregulationist theory, could well undergo deep transformations as a result of its worst excesses in our current economic crisis. It's about time.

Boston Globe Endorses Obama for president With great enthusiasm, the Globe endorses Senator Barack Obama for president. The charismatic Democrat from Illinois has the ability to channel Americans' hopes and rally the public together, at a time when the winds are picking up and the clouds keep on darkening.

McCain Transition Chief Aided Saddam In Lobbying Effort William Timmons, the DC lobbyist who McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime. The two lobbyists Timmons worked with over a 5-year period later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Hussein's government.

Adam Bessie: The Savage Nation Party? Conservative commentator Michael Savage's vitriol with the Republican ticket speaks to the fragmentation of support for McCain in the "die hard" conservative base he speaks to daily, and more broadly, it suggests another sign of McCain's slowing momentum. But don't applaud yet.

Edip Yuksel: NineTeen Proposals for Obama and Biden These are 19 randomly arranged political positions I drafted in consultation with the founders of TeenDemocrats organization, which I mentor. They are proposed ideas and are open for discussion. After each point is discussed sufficiently enough, after their pros and cons become evident, they will then be presented as the TeenDemocrats Manifesto or TeenDemocrats Agenda.

Caroline Myss: In Times Like These (1 comments) A cycle of frantic social change is an expression of Divine chaos; that is, the stability factors that have held the social fabric in place are shifted seemingly in an instant and the result is chaos. For Teresa of Avila, Divine chaos was God's way of creating an upheaval in order to break through patterns of denial that held a person emotionally or mentally captive.

9/11: Extreme NSA, CIA, FBI Incompetence- or Policy Maker Intent? What's the difference between incompetence and intent? Do the 9/11 victims families and the people of the USA and the world have a right to answers? Kevin Fenton of HistoryCommons.org breaks down 7 points related to James Bamford's interview with Amy Goodman and new revelations about the NSA and CIA's failure to do really obvious things; like notify the FBI that 9/11 terrorists known to be plotting attacks were in the US

Gene Cappa: *McCain Gets Developer Big Returns AN ARIZONA BUSINESSMAN with help from Sen. John McCain's office paid the federal government a mere fraction of the market value when he bought a Fort Ord land parcel in 1999.

Tuesday, October 14:

Betsy L. Angert: My Hair; His Energy Policy (5 comments)

Dave Lindorff: Egad! Is the Government Going Socialist? (4 comments) The Bush administration, Congress and our two major-party presidential candidates are so busy making sure no one can accuse them of being socialists while they buy up the banking industry that they are giving away the store.

Keith Pope: Just Get This! (16 comments) You might care to appreciate the lunacy that is actually being put into effect in your name as you read this.

BigStrongMan: *Causes of and solutions for one heck of a financial Molotov cocktail

Steph Fauxco: Family Tradition PC-13? Hank Williams lyrics for the McCain campaign rally. What is more amazing? Sarah Palin's double standard position on family values, or believing Hank Williams Jr. didn't come up with a totally nastier version of his remake of Family Traditions? You know there's a rated X copy sitting on his coffee table...right next to the beer can bong and Bud Lite.

Amy de Miceli: British NGO Forecasts Five Brave New World Scenarios Set In 2030 The Climate Futures report is a factually bankrupt fairytale that the main stream media is posing to readers as some kind of legitimate analysis.

Aref Assaf: McCain's new Lexicon Sadly, Senator McCain is desperately stooping low to racist and bigoted traits unfit of a great American hero and a dedicated public servant. For the over 2 million American of Arab origin, an apology is most needed if McCain is to expect their vote let alone their respect. On November 4, my choice for president will be not only between the lesser of two evils but between one with a vision and another a nightmare.

Gustav Wynn: HUH? Hannity Claims Obama Will Be Cutting Checks For The Poor? (2 comments) Okay, so I know how the Sean Hannity Show works by now, relentless one-sided partisan claims without any balance. Hannity even announces his bias, circumventing anti-propaganda laws by claiming it's just "entertainment". But today I heard something startling - Hannity claimed Obama intends to cut checks for poor people through the taxation system.

Our President's Personal Health Matters Who is more fit to be president? John McDougall MD's insightful discussion of both candidates' medical records.

Gustav Wynn: NC, Ohio Dates Added To Beasties' Pre-Election Stadium Tour Wondering who your favorite rock, pop and rap stars are supporting this election? Check out this list, an Obama LANDSLIDE and the Beastie Boys have just added more swing-state concert events with Sheryl Crow and friends - tickets go on sale Thursday. A who's who of A-list musicians all calling for change! Dylan, The Stones, Madonna, Bruce, Pink Floyd, Allmans, The Dead, plus hundreds more...

Sarah Palin's record on environment is abysmal Palin the environment killer. Read it and weep. Imagine what this "thing" would do to Mother Nature if she were president.

Who Runs the McCain Campaign; Or Why Aren't We Talking About McCain/Lieberman "˜08? : Rolling Stone Stop me if you've heard this before: "They" didn't let John McCain pick Joe Lieberman as his running mate. Who is the "they" that has veto power over John McCain? Isn't this his campaign? Isn't he running for the highest executive office in the land. Isn't he aiming to be "the decider" part deux? How is it possible that John McCain isn't even the decider in his own campaign?

The Lone Ranger: Is Sarah Palin Playing with Fire? - SPIEGEL ONLINE Obama misses the point when he denies that McCain can "in any way" be compared to George Wallace. It was Wallace's stirring up and tolerance of the mob mentality that remains his legacy. Lewis only wanted to warn McCain and Palin that they, too, run the risk of "playing with fire, and, if they are not careful, that fire will consume us all."

Where Was the Constitution in the Bailout Debate? Debate over the Bail Out covered many subjects: executive compensation, the global economy, markets v. government planning, the importance of home ownership, etc. Strangely missing from the debate was any meaningful discussion of the constitutionality of the Bail Out. Whence does Congress derive the authority to give the Secretary of the Treasury the power to purchase and manage billions of dollars worth of private assets?

IF I WERE PRESIDENT... (1 comments) How I would arrest world wide monetary collapse in a day, and establish real economy in little longer.

Chris Graham: The Obama Effect (1 comments) Obama-Biden supporters are worried about how race factors could impact on the outcome of the '08 presidential election. Could the Bradley Effect be a thing of the past?

Financial Crisis Haunts Milton Friedman's Legacy U.S. economist Milton Friedman, the champion of unfettered markets, is under siege for theories that some blame for unleashing the global financial crisis. ADVERTISEMENT His legacy is even being questioned on the leafy University of Chicago campus that he once called home.

Marta Steele: Oktoberfest without Beer, in the United States Foreseeing What May Be within a month, and How, and Hoping I'm Not Right on the Mark

Chris Graham: Bogus registration claims a 'smokescreen' for GOP suppression efforts (3 comments) The mainstream media has been helping the GOP trumpet ACORN smears as a way to sow doubt into Democratic voter-registration efforts. That initiative is a "smokescreen" for their own voter-suppression campaign with a clear goal in mind.

The Permanent (Smear) Campaign Conservatives realize that a successful Obama presidency could remake American politics. If Obama wins the election, they will try to destroy his presidency with lies, just as they sought to do to Bill Clinton.

How Sarah Palin Excluded African-Americans in Alaska Short video, also: On April 29, 2008, 14 leaders of Alaska's black community met with Gov. Sarah Palin to voice discontent with her minority hiring record. Palin's response, which was first reported by journalist Earl Ofari Hutchinson, only compounded her icy relationship with her African-American constituents

Why I'd Be a Better VP than Sarah Palin Rosanne Cash is a singer-songwriter, and even though she has met Presidents Bush and Clinton (who appeared to note her décolletage with great appreciation), the ambassador to the Czech Republic and George Stevens, who produces the Kennedy Center Honors awards show, she does not think her knowledge of world leaders should be held against her, because her experience in Washington is limited to 3 days during the Million Mom March

The Return of Rove John McCain has surrendered his campaign to the same political fearmonger who smeared him out of the race in 2000

Jayne Lyn Stahl: An Open Letter to Barack Obama on the Eve of the Last Presidential Debate (2 comments) It's not enough to prop Joe Biden up as the antidote to reckless, and insubstiantial McCain camp claims

Why the Bailout Scam Is More Likely to Fail than to Succeed The bailout scam is doomed to fail because it avoids diagnosis and dodges the heart of the problem: the inability of more than five million homeowners to pay their fraudulently ballooned mortgage obligations. Instead of trying to salvage the threatened real assets or homes and save their owners from becoming homeless, the bailout scheme is trying to salvage the phony or fictitious assets of the Wall Street gambler.

earl ofari hutchinson: The Fear of a President Obama It was a tense and riveting moment at the recent McCain campaign rally in Minnesota when a flustered and livid participant shouted at Republican presidential contender John McCain that he was scared of an Obama presidency.

The Truth About ACORN As criticism of ACORN heats up in the press, on the Internet and at McCain campaign rallies, it's worth taking a step back and examining the charges.

Rescue for the Few, Debt Slavery for the Many (1 comments) It is not too late to decide which road to take, but Wall Street bankers and creditors, seeing which way the political winds were blowing, moved to empty out the Treasury before the November 3 elections much like medieval citizens fleeing a horde of Mongolian raiders under Genghis Khan. “We’re moving. Clean out the cupboards!”

Fidel Castro: THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE The current crisis and the brutal measures of the U.S. administration to save itself will bring more inflation, more devaluation of national currencies, more painful losses in the markets, lower prices for exports and more unequal exchange. But they will also bring to the peoples a better understanding of the truth, more awareness, more rebelliousness and more revolutions.

Chris Hedges: America’s Political Cannibalism It is no longer our economy but our democracy that is in peril. Financial collapses lead to political extremism. The rage bubbling up from our impoverished and disenfranchised working class, glimpsed at John McCain rallies, presages a looming and dangerous right-wing backlash.

VIDEO: Rachel Maddow Battles David Frum's False Equivalencies, Calls Palin A 'Liar' (1 comments) Rachel Maddow sparred with former Bush speechwriter/National Review contributor David Frum, after Frum thought he'd cleverly ambush Maddow with the accusation that she was contributing to the low tone of the political discourse.

Robert Richter: War Hero or War Criminal? As character assassination attacks on Sen. Barack Obama have now taken over Sen. John McCain's campaign, and because McCain cites his military experience as of prime importance, now is the time to focus closer attention on a facet of the Arizona Senator's own character. This is related to his 23 combat missions for Operation Rolling Thunder - the Pentagon's name for U.S. bombing of North Vietnam. Violation of Geneva.

Michael Collins: SNAP! "White Shift" for Obama in Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida (2 comments)

Chomsky Weighs in on Bail-out Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed

Joel S. Hirschhorn: When the Federal Government Fails the People

Former McCain Supporter: McCain Is "Unleashing the Monster of American Prejudice" (3 comments) Lifelong Republican Frank Schaeffer says McCain is "deliberately feeding the most unhinged elements of our society the red meat of hate." Amy Goodman: We turn now to the McCain campaign's strategy of repeatedly invoking Senator Obama's connection to former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers

Fascism: Socialism With Shareholders (4 comments) An irreverent look at our financial troubles and the different views of them.

Roy S. Carson: Brown shirts are simply exchanged for red - in Venezuela (2 comments) Millions of Venezuelans had put their trust in Hugo Chavez Frias in December 1998 when they went to the polls to elect him as their president on a ticket he claimed would rid the country of the endemic corruption which had plagued the country's development for at least the previous forty-fifty years.

Mark Kastel: Collateral Damage: Organic Farmers Being Squeezed Out Groups representing organic farmers and their customers are calling on consumers to help save the organic industry by exclusively patronizing dairies, and other brands, that uphold the spirit and letter of the federal organic law.

~Mark E. Smith: OpEd: Stolen Votes and Stolen Elections (5 comments) I really wouldn't advise protesting. Our government happens to be a military superpower and it has given billions in crowd control gear and training to Homeland Security for the purpose of suppressing civil dissent.

Jane Stillwater: Industrial self-sufficiency & Gucci: My report from Iran # 2 (2 comments) Iran has learned the hard way to prefer Gucci instead of war. America should have learned that lesson in Vietnam -- but we didn't. Also if AMERICA ever gets sanctioned too, we also had better be industrially self-suffiecint if we want to survive. And boy you should see some of the Tehran malls! Very Rodeo Drive.

ALONE: Support Third Party Candidates (19 comments) In most of America's breadbasket people do have choices beyond the Republican and Democratic parties. Kansas has at least 3 alternatives on the ballot while Colorado may have 14 such alternatives. Sadly, Oklahoma offers no alternatives. The author encourages Americans to vote for alternatives, like Nader-Gonzalez, or for the Reform and Libertarian parties. Nebraskans can vote Green There are plethora of possibilities

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Wednesday, October 15:

World Recession Fears Mount After Financial Crisis Fears grew on Wednesday that the financial crisis will mutate into a worldwide recession with leaders calling for new global action against a slowdown. ADVERTISEMENT As EU leaders gathered for a summit devoted to the financial turmoil, a top US central bank official said the United States appeared to be already in recession.

CBS Reports 14 Pt. Lead for Obama With 4 out of 5 Supporters' Minds Made Up The poll presents serious problems for McCain, with only 20 days left in the campaign, since four out of five of each candidate's supporters now say their minds are made up.

Michael Richardson: ACLU cites COINTELPRO misconduct of FBI in 'Omaha Two' case pending before Nebraska Supreme Court (1 comments)

Pakistani intelligence agents re-arrest American The man - identified by Pakistani police as Juddi Kenan - was carrying a laptop computer when he was arrested Monday at a checkpoint in the northwestern district of Mohmand, near where Pakistani security forces have battled Islamic militants for two months. District police chief Waqif Khan said the 20-year-old was released from custody Tuesday but was picked up hours later at his home in the nearby city of Peshawar

Sandy Sand: Photo Captures the Essence of John McCain And it ain't a pretty picture.

Ex-Aide to Succeed Tubbs Jones After Primary Win Democrat Marcia L. Fudge, the mayor of the Cleveland suburb of Warrensville Heights, won a special election primary Tuesday for the vacant House seat in Ohio's 11th Congressional District. The victory effectively ensures that she will get a head start on seniority over the other House freshmen who win this year's general elections.

Pakistani, Chinese presidents meet in Beijing "China is the future of the world. A strong China means a strong Pakistan."

Martha Rosenberg: Why do we need Prop 2? Ask these Norco Ranch hens (2 comments) As the egg industry and agribusiness trot out "experts" to defend California's $337 million egg industry against Prop 2's humane changes, the diary of "Aaron," who worked at the Norco Ranch egg farm in Menifee, CA in August and September of this year stands in sharp contrast.

Patrick Mattimore: Don't Know Much About History (4 comments) What our students don't know about history and why they should know it.

Fluoride Action Network: Physicians Oppose Fluoridation Well-respected MD's now admit that adding fluoride chemicals into drinking water probably does not reduce cavities but does delivers health risks.

Tuesday, October 14:

No Lies Radio: Hear the FINAL Presidential Debate between Obama and McCain LIVE on No Lies Radio. Wednesday 5pm Pacific - 8pm Eastern No Lies Radio will carry Pacifica Radio Network's broadcast of the FINAL Presidential Debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, taking place at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, New York on Oct 15, anchored by Larry Bensky and Aimee Allison.

Gene Cappa: McCain/Palin:Politics of HATE-Do You Agree? (9 comments) John McCain and Sarah Palin have distracted us with the politics of hate and fear

McCain Tries To Blame Financial Crisis On Democratic Takeover Of Congress In 2007 In an interview with right-wing radio host Michael Medved this past Friday, McCain agreed with Medved's assertion that "the economy was really progressing pretty well under most of President Bush's term" before Democrats took control of Congress in January 2007...

Palin's Rural Adviser Quits Over Appointments Gov. Sarah Palin's rural adviser resigned Monday amid criticism of the governor's record on hiring Alaska Natives. ADVERTISEMENT Rhonda McBride, who is not an Alaska Native, made the announcement in an e-mail to several Native leaders, saying there need to be more Native voices in Palin's administration.

My Friends: CBS News Poll Reports That Obama Has Opened Up A 14-Point Lead Over McCain Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is entering the third and final presidential debate Wednesday with a wide lead over Republican rival John McCain nationally, a new CBS News/New York Times poll shows.

McCain Transition Chief Aided Saddam In Lobbying Effort William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.

American debt nightmare ends easy credit era Experts say crisis could spark shift away from maxing out credit cards

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For October 14, 2008 a collection of local, state, national and international articles on electronic voting and election issues

Lugar Gives Voice to Rising GOP Doubts on Iraq A public break with the White House's war strategy by one of the Senate's most respected Republican foreign policy voices signaled potentially far-reaching new troubles ahead for President Bush. Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, took to the Senate floor Monday evening to deliver a grim assessment of Bush's Iraq policy and to call for an immediate drawdown...

Budget Deficit Nearly Triples During Last Fiscal Year Bush/Cheney leave US with a "HUGE" departing gift...debt, debt, and more debt.

World Health Care Report 2008 Released The World Health Report 2008, which is being launched today, critically assesses the way that health care is organized, financed, and delivered in rich and poor countries around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) report documents a number of failures and shortcomings that have left the health status of different populations, both within and between countries, dangerously out of balance.

McCain's lost independents, polls find, giving Obama edge The new Quinnipiac Polling Institute surveys found Obama passing the key 50 percent mark in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. And for the first time, Obama leads Republican nominee John McCain among white voters in all four states. "Those margins may be insurmountable..."

RNC shifts focus; eyes $5M bailout for GOP senators, not McCain/Palin The Republican National Committee, growing nervous over the prospect of Democrats' winning a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, is considering tapping into a $5 million line of credit this week to aid an increasing number of vulnerable incumbents, top Republicans say.

Global Economic Crisis Likely To Have Profound Consequences For US Politics, World Relations The global economic crisis is likely to have profound, long-range consequences for American politics and for the relations of the United States with the rest of the world, severely constraining any effort to maintain or revive the Bush administration's propensity for unilateralism, and posing a broad international challenge to free market ideologies, according to a range of experts.

unknown: Documentation on Sarah Palin's IQ, Academic Record, and Job Performance (6 comments) Sarah Palin's 83 full scale Wechsler I.Q. reported when she was 18-years-old places her in a range described at that time as Dull Normal and, in fact, 83 was just slightly above the range labeled Borderline Retarded (70-80 I.Q.).

3 US-led troops killed in Afghanistan At least three US-led soldiers have been killed after a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in eastern Afghanistan, the alliance says. More than 4,700 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in insurgency-related violence this year.

US surrenders power to appoint World Bank president Developing countries have grown increasingly frustrated at the stranglehold of rich nations on the two Washington-based multilateral bodies, with pressure for change accelerating after the controversial presidency of Paul Wolfowitz, who was forced to step down after a scandal involving his partner's promotion.

U.S. Forces Nine Major Banks To Accept Partial Nationalization The Treasury Department's decision to take equity stakes in banks represents a significant reversal, coming just weeks after Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. had opposed the idea. In a momentous meeting yesterday afternoon in Washington, Paulson, flanked by top financial regulators, told the executives of nine leading banks that they needed to participate in the program for the good of the national economy.

Georgia Senator That Swiftboated Max Cleland Could Lose Seat in Neck-to-Neck Race It's Martin v. Chambliss, who viciously swiftboated Max Cleland in '02 and whose campaign once enjoyed a double-digit lead will go on the offensive in the final weeks of the race as the two former University of Georgia fraternity brothers slug it out against a national backdrop of increasing Democratic clout in the face of economic uncertainty.

Democrats Have A 3 In 10 Chance Of Bagging 60-Seat Majority in US Senate The Democrats appear to have nearly as much momentum in the race for Capitol Hill as they do for the White House, and now have approximately a 3 in 10 chance of winding up with a 60-seat working majority in the Senate.

Constance Lavender: United States Supreme Court Declines Davis Appeal ***BREAKING NEWS***BREAKING NEWS***BREAKING NEWS Troy A. Davis will likely be executed by lethal injection in Georgia within days.

Private sector loans, not Fannie or Freddie, triggered crisis More than 84% of the subprime mortgages in 2006 were issued by private lending institutions. Private firms made nearly 83% of the subprime loans to low- and moderate-income borrowers that year. Only one of the top 25 subprime lenders in 2006 was directly subject to the housing law. The "turmoil in financial markets clearly was triggered by a dramatic weakening of underwriting standards for U.S. subprime mortgages...

Roger Shuler: Karl Rove's "Genius" is Losing Its Luster Karl Rove has been hailed as an electoral genius, a governmental guru. But these days, he's not looking so smart

The Obama Aide Who Went to War Mark Lippert is hardly the kind of man most people would expect to find as Barack Obama's longest-serving foreign-policy adviser.[He]just returned to his civilian job at the senator's office after a year's deployment in Iraq. His boss may have made his name with his antiwar stance, but Lippert has spent far more time on the ground in Iraq than most of Obama's right-wing critics ever will. Has more than 300 experts advising him

Sherwood Ross: Committee To Prosecute Bush Revs Up (11 comments) If the Bush gang responsible for the atrocities in Iraq thought their troubles were going to be over after January 20th, they are mistaken. There's at least a small handful of determined academics and others out there who aren't going to be easily put off.

Ashin Mettacara: *The Full Moon Day of Thadingyut or Lighting Festival of Burma (1 comments)

Monday, October 13:

Mark Crispin Miller: *SNL: Wake Up! Don't Give Palin Your Bully Pulpit!! (12 comments) Action Alert: With Sarah Palin slated to appear as herself on SNL, she stands to humanize and improve her image through OUR humor.Don't forget that Palin's maiden speech was a runaway success and that the McCain campaign would not be doing this unless they know it will be a scripted, unqualified success.

Record 90% of voters say country is seriously off track. (2 comments) Serious crisis of confidence seizes America. Trickle-down economics meets bottom-up 'dry as a bone down here and been that way a long damn time, now you want me to bail your ass out' anger.

Krugman wins Nobel in economics Alan Greenspan eat your heart out. Milton Friedman, stay dead.

McCain was not tortured during captivity in North Vietnam, PoW guard claims (1 comments) The chief prison guard of the jail in which he was held has claimed, "We never tortured McCain. On the contrary, we saved his life, curing him with extremely valuable medicines that at times were not available to our own wounded."

Judge: Mich. can't reject voters with bad address A judge has ordered Michigan election officials to stop automatically canceling a voter's registration if the card is returned as undeliverable...More than 1,400 voters in that category have been disqualified so far in 2008. The judge says it's unclear how many cancelations actually are wrong but it's a violation of federal law.

VIDEO: McCain Declines To Condemn Virginia Republican's Comparison Of Obama And Osama At the end of an interview with a small TV station in Virginia yesterday afternoon, John McCain declined to condemn a Virginia Republican's comparison of Barack Obama to Osama Bin Laden, saying he needed "more context" first.

Republican leaders break ranks with McCain Senior members of the Republican party are in open mutiny against John McCain's presidential campaign, after a disastrous period which has seen Barack Obama solidify his lead in the opinion polls. McCain is being told to settle on a coherent economic message and to tone down attacks on his rival which have sometimes whipped up a mob-like atmosphere at Republican rallies.

Reaching for a Higher Profile, Abu Dhabi Opens a Hub for Western Media Backed with petrodollars, Abu Dhabi is fast becoming an international cultural hub and attracting American media companies. Companies setting up shop in Abu Dhabi, an island city that is the capital of the United Arab Emirates, are CNN, book publishers HarperCollins and Random House, the BBC, the Financial Times and the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charity arm of the financial news giant Thomson Reuters.

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For October 13, 2008 (1 comments) a collection of local, state, national and international articles on electronic voting and election issues

The Man Behind the Whispers About Obama Andy Martin, credited with starting a whisper campaign about Barack Obama, has been thrust into the spotlight.

Lead federal prosecutor of the Weathermen writes a letter (2 comments) "As the lead federal prosecutor of the Weathermen in the 1970s (I was then chief of the criminal division in the Eastern District of Michigan and took over the Weathermen prosecution in 1972), I am amazed and outraged that Senator Barack Obama is being linked to William Ayers's terrorist activities 40 years ago when Mr. Obama was, as he has noted, just a child...

Constance Lavender: STOCKS RALLY: UNDERLYING PROBLEMS REMAIN (3 comments) Are markets exuding inverse 'irrational exuberance?'

Kimberly Hartke: *Personal Liberties at Stake in Raw Milk Issue (9 comments) Sustainable agriculture itself is being attacked. Our right to choose FOOD is quietly being undone by USDA and the food industry. The battle is being waged around raw milk. California Gov Schwarzenegger just vetoed SB201, which preserved consumers' rights to access real, whole milk. They are criminalizing fresh milk - the heart of sustainable ag. And Yale just proved it proved it protects against type 1 diabetes.

US Surrenders Power to Appoint World Bank President (2 comments) WASHINGTON - The US is to lose its power to appoint the president of the World Bank after the UK's development secretary, Douglas Alexander, brokered a deal to throw open the post to candidates from any country. Backed by European governments and developing countries, Alexander overcame resistance from the US and Japan to secure a reform he described last night as "a significant step forward."

Obama calls for 90-day moratorium on foreclosures Democratic Barack Obama on Monday called for more immediate steps to heal the nation's ailing economy, proposing a 90-day moratorium on home foreclosures at some banks and a two-year tax break for businesses that create new jobs. The presidential candidate also proposed allowing people to withdraw up to $10,000 from their retirement accounts without any penalty for the remainder of the year and 2009.

Michael Morris: America needs Leadership! (8 comments) Did Congress show leadership in voting to pass the bailout?

Ashin Mettacara: *Bus explosion kills 7 and injures 1 in Burma Gas explosion

SPLC Featured in Discovery Channel, National Geographic A Discovery Channel program hosted by veteran journalist Ted Koppel examines an historic Southern Poverty Law Center lawsuit that destroyed one of the nation's most violent Klan groups. The program, a one-hour special on race in America, features interviews with SPLC founder Morris Dees and Alabama Congressman Artur Davis, who was an SPLC intern during the case.

Why won't ABC air that clean-energy ad? I rang up ABC's Broadcast Standards & Practices department and got in touch with a spokeswoman, Julie Hoover, who said she couldn't really tell me much. "The situation is that ABC will not disclose the contents of its communications with its clients," she said. She then read a prepared statement: "All of our advertising is reviewed on a case-by-case basis, and the context of this particular ad was determined not to be accepta

Markets bounce on trillion-dollar bailout (1 comments) Markets across the world made impressive gains Monday after European banks followed Britain's lead and announced huge bailouts for their banking sectors.European and Asian markets closed higher while the major New York markets were up about 7 percent in afternoon trading. The London FTSE finished up 8.26 percent, while the Paris CAC and the Frankfurt DAX closed up 11.18 percent and 11.4 percent respectively.

Gift to Center Headed by FDA Panel Chairman Raises Questions A retired medical supply manufacturer who considers bisphenol A to be "perfectly safe" gave $5 million to the research center headed by the chairman of a Food and Drug Administration panel about to rule on the chemical's safety. The July donation from Charles Gelman is nearly 50 times the annual budget of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, where Martin Philbert is founder and co-director. Philbert did not disc

British troops 'not needed in Iraq,' says Nouri al-Maliki Mr Maliki thanked British soldiers for their efforts in Iraq, but said that their combat and security roles had become redundant. "We thank them for the role they have played, but I think that their stay is not necessary for maintaining security and control. "There might be a need for their experience in training and some technological issues, but as a fighting force, I don't think that is necessary."

Canada PM, rival go coast to coast before election Canada's Conservative prime minister and his Liberal rival planned to crisscross the country Monday in a final day of campaigning, with voters concerned the ruling party is out of touch but also that the opposition's leader has trouble communicating in English.

Brian Lamb of Q&A: Lynette Clemetson, what is TheRoot.com? LYNETTE CLEMETSON, MANAGING EDITOR, THEROOT.COM: TheRoot.com is an online magazine that focuses on provocative commentary and analysis of politics, social issues, and the arts from a variety of perspectives aimed at a predominantly African-American audience or a predominantly black audience.

US summons banks to meeting on rescue plan (1 comments) The Bush administration summoned executives from leading banks to a meeting in Washington Monday afternoon to work out details of the $700 billion plan aimed at thawing the credit markets - the economy's lifeblood. Stock markets around the world rose. The Dow Jones industrials gained more than 500 points in a rebound from days of staggering losses. European markets rallied following Asia's lead

McCain at ACORN Event More hypocricy...

Krugman Wins Nobel Prize (1 comments) Progressives can all feel proud.

U.S. Treasury Said to Guarantee Mitsubishi Protection on Morgan Deal In what could set an important precedent, federal officials assured a big Japanese bank late Sunday that its planned investment in the embattled Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley would be protected...

Sunday, October 12:

Brian McAfee: Too Few Aware of World Orphan Week Orphans around the World need greater attention than what is given to them.

Michael Hammerschlag: A Question of Judgment (3 comments) McCain's judgment has been abysmal: he remained in a brutal NV prison for 4 1/2 years rather than go home. His economic advisor, "genius" Phil Gramm wrote the bills that exempted these junk bond derivatives from any regulation- creating this economic meltdown; McCain was a fervent backer of the catastrophic Iraq invasion; Cynical choice of the woefully unqualified Palin endangers nation: We questioned him on the first issue

Dick Overfield: Quo Vadis, Canada? (1 comments) Is Canada acting against its own best interests and marginalizing itself by a move to the right in the upcoming national election on October 14?

As governor, Palin at times bonds church and state The camera closes in on Sarah Palin speaking to young missionaries, vowing from the pulpit to do her part to implement God's will from the governor's office. What she didn't tell worshippers gathered at the Wasilla Assembly of God church in her hometown was that her appearance that day came courtesy of Alaskan taxpayers, who picked up the $639.50 tab for her airplane tickets and per diem fees.

1.3 Million Reasons the GOP Propaganda Dept. Created the ACORN 'Voter Fraud' Lie Fact:ACORN flags in writing incomplete,problem,or suspicious cards when we turn them in. Unfortunately,some of these same officials then come back weeks or months later and accuse us of deliberately turning in phony cards.Fact:Our canvassers are paid by the hour,not by the card.ACORN has a zero-tolerance policy for deliberately falsifying registrations,&in the cases where our internal quality controls have identified this

D.C. Report Finds E-Vote Company Added Thousands of 'Phantom Votes' in Last Month's Primary (1 comments) Shafer [Michelle Shafer,official mouthpiece for both Sequoia Voting Systems and the election industry's PR outfit,Election Technology Council (ETC)] had originally claimed (as usual) human error and static electricity were to blame.When the incident was first discovered in September,Shafer told the Washington Post: "There's absolutely no problem with the machines in the polling places.No. No."Turns out, Shafer lied.Again.

Politico falsely claims McCain's tax cuts for the rich are 'aimed directly at the middle class.' In an "exclusive" story that appears to have been peddled by the McCain campaign, Politico's Mike Allen and Jonathan Martin report that John McCain is considering "measures aimed directly at the middle class." What measures? "Tax cuts – perhaps temporary – for capital gains and dividends."

U.S. Drops North Korea From Terrorism List The Bush administration removed North Korea from its terrorism blacklist yesterday, a move that was aimed at salvaging a sputtering nuclear disarmament deal but that sparked internal controversy, infuriated Japan and drew some Republican opposition.

W. Christopher Epler (Bill): Civil or interntional war could be triggered if the pugs steal the election, McCain dies, and Palin becomes President. (3 comments) War, very "untheoretical" war is looming on the horizon. If the pugs steal their 3rd Presidential election, McCain dies in the first year or so, and Sarah Palin becomes president, this would so obviously be the end of our Democratic Republic and the necessary ecosystems for human existence, if we didn't find a way to "remove" the evil twit Palin from power, other countries would do it for us. Hey, this is their planet too.

UncleSim: Voting the Lesser of Two Evils - A Poll (48 comments) How strong is your support for the person who will get your vote? This poll is an attempt to locate America's heart.

Karen Fish: Will Sarah Palin now step down? (10 comments) Does she stay or does she go? Why and by whom?

Ellen Brodsky: Standing for Voters In 2007 our Supervisor had a catastrophic computer crash, and lost all our election records. I am Standing for Voters, I took the Pledge" go to standingforvoters.org. I am standing for fair, accurate, transparent and secure elections. My fiduciary responsibility is to you the voters, not lobbyists, politicians, vendors or party bosses.

Constance Lavender: Despite Weekend Talks, World Leaders Fail to Reassure The world financial meltdown is forcing national leaders to rethink basic assumptions amid a lack of recent historical precedents and in the absence of institutional memory. Despite efforts at international consensus and unity, uncertainty reigns.

Alan Bachers: The Credit Card Debt tsunami already breaking over us and how to fix it The credit card debt tsunami already breaking over us and how to fix it.

Philadelphia Against War: Photo-essay on rally of Oct 10th Philly Against War conducted a spirited rally against the many wars of the Bush Administration in a very cheerful and noisy demonstration. Check out the photos!

Thursday, October 9:

Rob Kall: Will McCain or Obama Challenge Vote Counts? (10 comments) Kerry wimped an quit. Gore gave up when the Supreme court waded in. If the election is close, will Obama challenge the results? Will McCain?

Gene Cappa: FASCISM Came To America-Do You Agree? (28 comments) The ten steps to fascism are now in place, and any crisis, real or make believe, can be used to declare a national emergency leading to martial law and tyranny over the land.

Wednesday, October 8:

chris rice: Bail~Outs Were Wrong: How Do We Regain Control of Congress (10 comments) You have ignored the hundreds of thousands of American people who have been calling, faxing and emailing you opposing this bailout at least 100 to 1. You have ignored the almost two hundred economists from around the country that have contacted you and who have no conflict of interest and told you this bill will outright fail. My congressman's web site had a pole showing that 97.3% of his constituents were opposed.

Steph Fauxco: Who do you think won the debate tonight? Obama or McCain VOTE NOW (1 comments) Debate #2 McCain V Obama who do you think will won the debate?

PrMaine: Are trolls effective? (12 comments) Have Republican trolls been trying to influence voters through comments on progressive web sites? If so, are they effective in this effort?

Sunday, October 5:

Paul Kruger: Are we safe from our own military? (48 comments) Would members of our own military refuse an order to turn their weapons against American Citizens on US Soil?

Friday, October 3:

Steph Fauxco: First Bail Out Bill VS New Bail Out Bill? VOTE!!! (17 comments) Should Congress have voted in the less pork Bail out bill of last week vs. the one they have to TODAY?

Lance L. Landon: Biden-Palin Debate, Who Won??? (15 comments) Vote for Joe Biden Vote for Sarah Palin

Thursday, October 2:

Steph Fauxco: Will Sarah Palin say "Alaska" more times than "Hero" tonight? (3 comments) Palin, debate, Funny Poll, Alaska, Hero

Gene Cappa: WILL the Wall Street Bailout Help Or Hurt? (9 comments) Taxpayers are required to borrow $800 billion for Wall Street to cover their business losses. Will this Bailout help or hurt the nation?

Peter Dearman: Do something, but ditch the Paulson Plan (4 comments) Should Congress promise to do something major, but ditch the Paulson Plan and start listening to other informed voices?

JC Garrett: Poll: Republican 'Capitalism' or Republican 'Socialism'? (10 comments) The choice really isn't between real Capitalism and real Socialism. The choice is between the reality that occurs by applying the Republican definition of Capitalism and the Republican definition of Socialism. Which would you prefer?

Monday, September 29:

Steph Fauxco: Did the Republicans commit extreme insider trading today? (2 comments) Do you think the Republican's committed extreme insider trading today?

Sunday, September 28:

Rob Kall: After Palin Bombs Debating Biden, & Withdraws from the Campaign, Who Will McCain Pick? (14 comments) Sarah Palin bombed in her interview with Katie Couric and she's going to hit bottom and break into 700 billion ugly pieces when she debates with Joe Biden. Who Will McCain choose to replace her when Palin withdraws to "take care of her family."

Friday, September 26:

Robert Arend: Are The Republicans Gaining Hero Status On The Bailout? (14 comments) Are Democrats risking dilution of the public's blame of the Republicans for current ills of the economy when the Dems support bailing out Wall Street and the Repubs stand against it?

Thursday, September 25:

Gene Cappa: McCain Should Release FULL DETAILS of His Medical Records-Do You Agree? (7 comments) McCain has yet to release his medical records to the public in their entirety.

Wednesday, September 24:

Constance Lavender: Bailout: Post-Bush Speech to Nation (11 comments) Post-Bush Speech Bailout Gauge

Tuesday, September 23:

MedicalWhistleblower: Should Medical Whistleblowers Be Protected? (5 comments) Should Medical Whistleblowers Be Protected?

Kevin Gosztola: How can America recover from the financial crisis? (13 comments) Three prominent politicians (two of them presidential candidates) have plans for how to respond to the bailout. Neither suggest that they would support the Bush administration's or Paulson's proposal, which is being advanced in the halls of Congress right now (despite the fact that many details about the proposal are unknown).

Monday, September 22:

Rob Kall: Screwed or Saved Bailout-wise? (38 comments) will dems pass or fix the bailout, or will Republicans do it? Or will a bipartisan congress screw the taxpayers.

Saturday, September 20:

Gene Cappa: Bush's Legacy: Debt, War, & 9/11-Do You Agree? (21 comments) IS Bush's legacy clear or yet to be determined?

Constance Lavender: Given the economic illness of the United States, What do you prefer to do? (21 comments) Tell the World What Your Future Plans Are Going To Be....

Friday, September 19:

Rob Kall: Has J. Edgar Hoover Styled Blackmail Come Back to Haunt Congress? (18 comments) with all the access to phone tapping, has the Bush admin and its surrogates been digging up blackmail material on Dem leaders in congress?

Constance Lavender: Do you support the government's bail out of Wall Street? (14 comments) Do you support the government's bail out of Wall Street?

Rob Kall: Government Welfare Buyouts and Rescues; Are They Over Yet? (7 comments) Will there be more massive loans or government takeovers that amount to corporations become socialized-- even whole industries?

Wednesday, September 17:

Karen Fish: Did George Bush bail out AIG to save AIG or John McCain and the Neocons? (21 comments) What are the true motives behind the Bush bailout of AIG?

Monday, September 15:

Rob Kall: Diagnose Sarah Palin Poll (38 comments) Which diagnosis do you pick?

Bruce Cain: A 20 Year Moritorium on Legal/Illegal Immigration Into the US (14 comments) The "New Agenda for America" is composed of 10 "Planks." The 2nd plank calls for a 20 Year Moritorium on Legal/Illegal Immigration Into the US. [Goto www.newagecitizen.com/NAA.htm to read the full agenda].

joel kauffman: "Under God," in the Pledge of Allegiance (25 comments) The phrase has presently been held unconstitutional by a California federal district court. The decision is on appeal to the Federal Court of Appeals. In 2006, a Florida federal district court has held that a 1942, state law requiring children to stand and recite the pledge violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments and is therefore, unconstitutional

Greg Purcell: Does Rob Kall look like Tony Soprano? (5 comments) Is James Gandolfini Rob Kall's cousin?? What do you think?

PrMaine: Voting Motivations (17 comments) This poll is an attempt to get some understanding of what is motivating people to vote.

Sunday, September 14:

Constance Lavender: How much faith do you have in the American financial system? (11 comments) Given these extraordinary developments in the American financial system, how much faith do you retain?

Constance Lavender: Is Sarah Palin from the West or the Pacific? Decide where Sarah Palin is from: the West or the Pacific.

Saturday, September 13:

Hal Smith: Independent Candidates (19 comments) Who will you vote for?

Tony Forest: POLL: Will an Obama/Biden Victory Pacify The Movement ? (19 comments) Offset with an inverted question: Will a McCain/Palin Victory Empower The Movement ?

Thursday, September 11:

Amanda Lang: POLL: Should Vote Tampering or Vote Theft Crimes Be Prosecuted As Treason (10 comments) Should the penalty for vote tampering or vote theft be more stringent than it is under current law? Should voting crimes be elevated to acts of high treason?

Amy Fried: Poll: Does Sarah Palin Represent American Women? (26 comments) Does the Republican V.P. nominee represent American women?

Amy Fried: Unsolicited Absentee Ballots (5 comments) Strange stories of unsolicited absentee being received by non-Republicans, are circulating.

Gene Cappa: Congress Should Commence An Independent 9/11 Investigation-Do You Agree (20 comments) Seven years after 9/11 Congress has yet to provide the American people with an independent scientific analysis of the collapses of all 3 World Trade Center buildings.

Tuesday, September 9:

John Wood Sr: POLL: SHOULD WE REPLACE THE "STARS AND STRIPES"? (18 comments) A way to save our Constitutional rights and liberties.

Edwin Rutsch: Is Jim Hightower correct that grasping greed is a failed conservative value? (7 comments) Is Jim Hightower correct that grasping greed is a failed conservative value?

Monday, September 8:

Hal Smith: IN RELATION TO ROB'S POLL, ARE YOU VOTING FOR MCPALIN OR OBIDEN? (8 comments) Poll to see who's voting for whom.

bhwhite: None Of The Above Ballot Option (7 comments) This poll asks voters if they would want a binding Voter Consent option in elections to office. The option, "None of the Above", would appear after the list of candidates for an office, and if it received the most votes, then no listed candidate for the office would be elected, and a new by-election with new candidates would have to be held.

Gene Cappa: A Cowardly Hoyer Thwarts Impeachment - Do You Agree? (16 comments) A cowardly Rep Hoyer steps up to the podium and seeks to table the impeachment bill.

Mac McKinney: Should Outraged Americans Boycott Minneapolis and St Paul until They Drop Charges (11 comments) Should we demand, nationwide, no business as usual with St Paul and Minneapolis until the Twin Cities denounce the major abuse of police power against journalists, legal observers and innocent protestors during the RNC? Should we ask all organizations and businesses to cancel or avoid conventions in the Twin Cities or contracts with the Twin Cities, and ask American citizens to avoid travelling there on vacation until they do?

Edward Smallwood: Will allowing the drilling for oil in 10 years help us? (7 comments) Can we drill our way out of this oil problem?

Rob Kall: Not Voting for Obama or McCain? What Are you doing? (67 comments) McKinney, Nader, Barr, write-in, not voting?

Sunday, September 7:

Edwin Rutsch: What are Real Conservative 'Small Town Values'? (9 comments) In their various speeches at the GOP National Republican Convention, conservatives made a big point of trying to connect their Failed Conservative Values to Small Town Values. Yes, they never give up on the values debate and always try to add a new wrinkle to their rhetorical values debate arsenal. Here's the question;

Paul Kruger: Did McCain steal Obama's Flags? (11 comments) Did McCain's people steal Obama's flags as a "dirty trick"?

Friday, September 5:

Hal Smith: Are you ready to stand up and take back this country??? (28 comments) Poll to see how many patriots there are actually out there.

Paul Kruger: Am I qualified to be the new FCC chairman? (7 comments) How to evaluate qualifications for government positions. What high position might YOU be qualified for under McCain's guidelines?

Thursday, September 4:

John R Moffett: The "Free Vote" Movement: Is now the time? (12 comments) What is the Free Vote Movement? It is a political movement to help a 3rd party ascend to national prominence by urging voters who live in pure Red or pure Blue states to vote for a 3rd party candidate, since their vote doesn't really matter in the general election. Is this the right time for you to consider voting for Paul, Barr, Nader or McKinney to help build a third political party?

Edwin Rutsch: Should progressives confront Sara Palin and failed conservatives values? (3 comments) Should progressives, liberals and democrats confront conservatives at the values level and say that conservative values have failed?

Mikhail Lyubansky: The one thing that matters to me most (1 comments) This poll measures what independents, moderates, and undecideds consider to be the primary factor in their decision-making process.

Raphael Sidelman: Is it just my imagination, or are many eligible voters living a warped reality? (12 comments) This is an attempt to see how many other conscious citizens are appalled by the outright pandering that is being passed off as legitimate political leadership by the speakers at the republican national convention

Wednesday, September 3:

Rob Kall: Did Sarah Palin Hit a Home Run and Is She a Formidable Candidate? (38 comments) Use this poll as jumping off point to discuss your reaction to Sarah Palin's talk.

Monday, September 1:

Rob Kall: Should The Media, Including OEN, Cover the Question Who is the Mother of Trig Palin? (97 comments) Critics say this is tawdry, tabloid journalism that makes an innocent teenager and single mother a victim. Supporters say that if it's true that Sarah Palin is lying about who gave birth then her lies are key to defining her character and lack of integrity.

Sunday, August 31:

Mike Kimball: Is the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment (Right to Bear Arms) Still Relevant (72 comments) A poll on views on today's relevancy of the Second Amendment.

Saturday, August 30:

Gene Cappa: Katrina Disaster-Myths or Fact? (2 comments) FIVE MYTHS were spun about the Katrina disaster. Are they myths or facts?

Richard McGinn: When Rove speaks, be very afraid - Poll (12 comments) Karl Rove said today that the outcome of the election is so unpredictable that "events" will probably be the deciding factor.

Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo: POLL: SHOULD OBAMA DUMP HIS STAFF AND HIRE UNKNOWNS FOR THE ELECTION? (9 comments) At the start of the Primary seasons, despite the negative showing of the Democratic Congress, Obama had a substantial advantage. After the primary it was frittered away and McCain took the lead in most polls. Now, with the presumptive Vice Presidency of Sarah Palin, the Catholic vote which went to Bush twice but to the Dems in 2006, may have flown North to Alaska, to Palin/McCain. What to do, oh what to do? Oh, I know...

Friday, August 29:

Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo: Will Sarah Palin Boost McCain's Chances for Victory? (41 comments) Sarah Palin, 44 year old former beauty queen, just two years into her governorship of Alaska. is more than ruffling the feathers of Neo-cons and the corrupt among Alaska's political circles already crippled by investigations, but has been yanking the chains of oil companies, stringently closing loop-holes once the hallmark of weak negotiator's in the past, and more. She plucked $1200 rebates for Alaskans from Big Oil.

Wednesday, August 27:

Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo: Are The Missiles in Poland a Plot to Upstage Obama and Give the White House to McCain? (41 comments) I say the missiles of October II is a lame attempt, ala Nixon vs Kennedy and the steel strike fraud and the WMD's, to scare Americans. I don't know maybe the Poles blind or scared, but this looks like a plan to show that a war hero is better prepared to settle the problem than Obama. I think the FIX is in to have McCain settle the Missiles issue and win the White House. What do you think?

Monday, August 25:

Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo: Poll: A New Political System in Satire (2 comments) SATIRE: A new political system which replaces the 2 party system which is really 1 PARTY SYSTEM. My system though it appears to be a 3 Party System, But acknowledging that 2 of the 3 are 1, is really ba