Monday, October 13:

Robert Naiman: Pentagon Challenge: Ask Iraqis How Many Have Died The Washington Post reports that the Pentagon plans to poll Iraqis. By asking, "How many members of your household have died since March, 2003?" the Pentagon could construct an estimate of Iraqi deaths. Congress should require the Pentagon to do so.

Robert Naiman: Pentagon Challenge: Ask Iraqis How Many Have Died The Washington Post reports that the Pentagon plans to poll Iraqis. By asking, "How many members of your household have died since March, 2003?" the Pentagon could construct an estimate of Iraqi deaths. Congress should require the Pentagon to do so.

New Yorker: Beyond The Palin If McCain loses, or even if he wins, his campaign will be remembered as a tragedy in the Aristotelian sense, in which a hero is ruined through some terrible choice of his own. One can only hope that the tragedy will be his alone, and not the nation.”

DAnne Burley: *Keating Five and Wall Street Crisis Match and Why? Who were the Keating Five? and strange enough this events seem to be a twin to the Wall Street crisis which is plaguing America today. Please listen to the D'Anne Burley Show at 5pm Central time featured on The Mirco Effect Radio Broadcast Network where we will talk about the history of the Savings and Loan Collapse those involved and the very issue that is now on Wall Street today

Charles L. Riccillo: Breaking the Code Prejudice, racial bigotry, the economy, historical, bail-out,mortgages and interest, education.

Interview with Noam Chomsky 'The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System' The linguist and public intellectual Noam Chomsky has long been a critic of American consumerism and imperialism. Spiegel spoke to him about the current crisis of capitalism, Barack Obama's rhetoric and the compliance of the intellectual class.

Dayna Navaro: A Response to 8 Years of George W. Bush's Simulucrum on Real Humans (1 comments) This chapter is an effort to show how the last eight years of rule in the United States have been an intentionally created simulacrum to pull of a criminal heist upon the American people.

America's Political Cannibalism 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.

Rory OConnor: McCain Sowing Seeds of Hatred When Representative Lewis -- a Georgia Democrat and veteran of the civil rights movement – recently denounced the McCain/Palin campaign for its use of divisive rhetoric and said the negative tone of the Republican presidential campaign reminded him of the hateful atmosphere that segregationist Governor George Wallace fostered in Alabama in the 1960s, he was calling it like it is.

Is Drudge Priming a McCain "Reboot" Narrative? Something is a little bit funny when Matt Drudge is treating 1-2 point gains for McCain in the Rasmussen and Zogby tracking polls as "BREAKING" news. Naturally, Drudge ignores other results like the just-released ABC/WaPo poll that show Obama continuing to gain ground. Drudge has a nose for news, and he knows that a one-point gain in a tracking poll is not news -- unless someone desperately wants it to be.

U.S Imperial Forces Pay Homage to George Orwell, As It Were Suppose you are the publicity officer for a U.S. imperial legion in some God-forsaken hellhole, where your job is to tell the world what the forces have been doing there lately. What they've actually been doing, of course, is killing people, with little regard for who they are, and destroying a lot of property, with equal disregard for who owns it. Just "doing our job," as the soldiers say.

GOP Attacks on ACORN Are Based on the Fear of 1.3 Million New Voters Jesse Jackson Jr, Steven Rosenfeld, Digby and Marc Ambinder on the GOP's race-baiting and smear job against ACORN's massive registration efforts.

Financial Meltdown 101 Glossary, pictures and easy explaining: From 1982 to 2000, the U.S. stock market went on the longest bull run ever, as share prices rose to dizzying heights. In the late 1990s, a combination of factors, which included the Federal Reserve lowering interest rates, created a huge price bubble in Internet stocks. A speculative bubble occurs when price far outstrips the fundamental worth of the asset

William Fisher: Facts: Campaign Collateral Damage When the issue is the single one most central to the survival of our democracy, is having a beer with the new president an answer to anyting?

Kevin Gosztola: How Do Republicans Plan to "Win"? McCain is prepared to cry fraud if the election is close and he has come out on the losing end. And here is why.

Fox's Cavuto Wins SPLC's Dobbsy Award for Pinning Blame on Minorities for Mortgage Crisis The host of "Your World with Neil Cavuto" used his program to put the blame for the subprime mortgage meltdown squarely where he believes it belongs – on the shoulders of poor minorities who have dared try to own a home.

richard bushway: Cost of Outrage Comparison of public reaction to financial meltdown and war

Anatomy of the American Financial Crisis: How It is Turning into a Worldwide Crisis "The basis for optimism is sheer terror." - Oscar Wilde

The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel Robert F. Kennedy Jr---- But if McCarthy-era guilt-by-association is once again a valid political consideration, Palin, it would seem, has more to lose than Obama. Palin, it could be argued, following her own logic, thinks so little of America's perfection that she continues to "pal around" with a man - her husband, actually - who only recently terminated his seven-year membership in the Alaskan Independence Party

Financial Crisis Buries DoJ Bombshell - Marilou Johanek As its Treasury and Federal Reserve chiefs warned that the sky was falling and the economic crash and continuing tumult on Wall Street made them seem prophetic, the Justice Department released a nearly 400-page scalding indictment of the administration over the controversial firings of several U.S. attorneys in 2006.

Glenda Moore: What Goats? (3 comments) An attempt to use goat economics to explain the bailout.

Mary MacElveen: In canvassing a neighborhood in Ohio, Barack Obama was practicing retail-politics My suggestion to the Obama campaign is to set aside a good block of time by practicing retail-politics, because you are after all selling yourself to the voter(s). They too need to kick the tires so to speak to see how you personally interact with them. That may be the very tactic which in affect seals the deal.

Economic Dishonor Roll (VIDEO) This article is the beginning of a look at some of those figures--politicians, economists, pundits - whose recklessness and own greed have created the situation we're in today.

Why the Financial Collapse? The financial collapse is not because of the sub-prime meltdown; that was only the trigger. The collapse has much deeper roots, in the politics and policies ushered in by Reagan in 1980, and still dominant until early in 2008. The solution is to repudiate conservative economic policies, not just to bail out the banks, but to rebuild the foundations for a mass consumption society.

Time for change's Journal - Questions that Should Be Asked of McCain at Wednesday's Debate This article covers every single question and answer that should but will not be asked at the final debate. If nothing else it is a quick guide to all that ails us about Mccain/Palin. Excellent-save it!

PAUL KRUGMAN: Gordon Does Good With stunning speed, the British government defined the character of the worldwide rescue effort. Now other wealthy nations have to catch-up.

Angry Bear :: "Femafication" A new word, one for the books: Femafication. Nobel prize winner, Paul Krugman, officially coined the word in his latest op-ed piece:Femification: the act of blindly following an ideology that produces disastrous results, usually in public policy.

Where Did the Money Go? And, Barack Obama Wows Philadelphia (1 comments) Where did the money go? That's a question that's a hot topic of conversation everywhere I go in recent days. Whether it's your next door neighbor, the postman, your mother-in-law on the phone or total strangers at a bar, no one seems to understand where the trillions of dollars lost in the stock market has gone. As someone who's seen his 401k drop by a third in the last month, it's something I definitely wanted to know...

Rowan Wolf: Fires are Harder To Put Out Than They Are To Start (1 comments)

Fox News Opinion: Smear Campaigning Should Be Beneath John McCain McCain has worked long and hard to build a reputation as a man of honor, a man who puts country first.He’s in danger of losing all that in the process of losing this election.It’s too bad,not for Democrats,but for a decent man.And it’s a waste, given that McCain’s best shot, his only shot,is to prove that he is up to the challenges America faces right now.Just when he needs to be big,he has never seemed smaller.

The End of the Rule of Law in America US troops are back home in America to wage war upon the people of the US. New laws make public dissent of any kind --however peaceful --an act of 'terrorism'. Congress was threatened with martial law, literally blackmailed, into passing the infamous and ineffective bailout! The threat of martial law, therefore, is not only in the official record, it is made clear with the domestic use of US troops in American streets.

Mary Shaw: Is John McCain Still Trapped in Vietnam? We need a president who can learn from the past, not dwell on it -- or in it.

Stephen Lendman: The October Surprise - Global Panic Key to understand about the weekend bailout scheme is that world governments plan to loot their treasuries to save capital interests and do practically nothing for ordinary people.

E. Nelson: Al Franken Wins Second Debate over Republican Incumbent Norm Coleman and Dean Barkley

Gene Cappa: *Cheney-A Shadow Behind The Curtain (1 comments) HE HELD FAST to his hard-core views of unilateral executive power even when they led to self--defeatingly adverse political consequences for the presidency.

Judy Swindler: Did McCain Involvement in Ft. Ord Real Estate Deal Cost Taxpayers Several Hundred Million Dollars? (1 comments) In 2001, two years after his purchase, Mr. Diamond sold the former U.S. military post known as Ft. Ord, located near the beach in Monterey Bay, California, for more than 18 million dollars. Property evaluations now show the long term value of this former public property to be worth at least several hundred million dollars. Senator John McCain played an active role in this entire transaction.

Ross McNamara: Health Care for Americans: A Right or a Responsibility? What Barack Obama and John McCain meant when they argued if health care was a right or a responsibility.

Dean Powers: Obama Should Apologize for Congressman Lewis? (2 comments) With Frank Rich and John Stewart coming close to comparing McCain and his followers to the Weimar Republic, why did McCain attack Congressman John Lewis's remarks?

Allen L Roland: *UNSPOKEN CAUSE OF MARKET COLLAPSE IS DERIVATIVE TRADING It is time to break the deadly silence on derivatives ~ the true, hyper inflationary factor in the current crisis situation is the unregulated, insanely leveraged derivatives trade. This is what is bringing down the stock market . This is the great crime of Alan Greenspan and there are many co-conspirators: Allen L Roland

SandyGuy Schoenfeld: Operation "Right Off" - A Plausible Martial Law Scenario (1 comments) My article outlines both motivation and tactics to be employed in a possible conspiracy to create a state of martial law and suspend the upcoming elections. It's based on historical precedent and a deep understanding of prior such precipitating events and attempts/plans for such.

Joe Eichler: T. Boone Pickens Green Energy Plan - Natural Gas The Modern Day Trojan Horse America has reached a crossroads in energy. Several plans have been offered for dealing with this crisis but none have received the publicity that the T. Boone Pickens plan has. While the proposal put forth by T. Boone Pickens has at the surface all the appearances of a comprehensive plan. Consider closely all the ramifications of adopting such a plan especially when its' author is so closely tied to the oil industry.

Ed Tubbs: The Reno Gazette Journal goes white, very white. Essentially what McCain and Palin are, is the white answer to the raised fist, black power salute in the 60s, and the benign "who me?" forsaking of responsibility for the products of the anger it loosed: Detroit, Newark, Watts . . . raging infernos.

Marta Steele: The Most Endangered Species of Them All A hellfire and brimstone threat that if we don't do something quickly, Bomb Bomb and Bam-Bam will instead. And so the earth will become an empty planet, just like the rest of them, having tried to distinguish itself. We mavericks, we paved it with a parking lot of toxicities.

Miles Mathis: What you should know about Barack Obama (3 comments) Do most of us who support Barak Obama know enough about him and his policies to vote intelligently?

Carola Von Hoffmannstahl: Obama McCain: A Man For This Season Evil omens re the economy hath melded Obama and McCain into one man, living in the cramped quarters of one craven political soul.

Battleground Report: Tide Is Turning in Western PA First hand report on the 'white worker' question, with white workers organizing for Obama

Sunday, October 12:

Robert Naiman: Gates Says Talks with Taliban "Conceivable" - Let's Get Started (1 comments) Defense Secretary Gates said the U.S. could "ultimately" contemplate the idea of negotiating with the Taliban to secure a political settlement in Afghanistan. Gates said a political settlement with the Taliban was "conceivable." "There has to be ultimately, and I'll underscore ultimately, reconciliation as part of a political outcome to this," Gates said. If this is where we're going, why not get started now?

Bill Falzett, PhD: *Simple Economics: Supply, demand and a bailout for the worker (2 comments) The real problem with the economy is lagging wages that sap demand and lead to borrowing from too many people who have trained to be greedy. They've been helped by politicians who neglect to enforce or update regulations. Supply and demand are simple until you get deviant. Prosperity for all is tied to a fair, living wage.

Rob Kall: The Mailer That Put the Final Nail in the McCain Campaign Coffin (53 comments) Close to 100 million Americans received mailers last week, or will receive them next week that will put the last nail in the coffin of the McCain Pailin campaign.

Stephen Soldz: Public at Last: Guantanamo SERE Standard Operating Procedures (1 comments) One of the most important documents of the U.S. torture program -- the JTF GTMO "SERE" Interrogation Standard Operating Procedure -- has just become publicly available for the first time.

David Glenn Cox: Gone with the Wind (3 comments) As we sat around the dinner table celebrating a family birthday, the conversation turned to the stock market. My in-laws are retired and in their seventies; they, for the most part, just shook their heads. Then my mother-in-law, with a nervous certainty, remarked, "It'll come back, you wait and see." My first impulse was to remind her of some of the events that have already transpired to the contrary, but her tone quieted me.

Sally Liuzzo-Prado: Race in the 2008 Election (11 comments) My views on the 2008 election & the "race question."

Rowan Wolf: The Broad Umbrella of "Terrorist" (9 comments) We are all at risk of being labeled "terrorists."

steve young: Politics Most Stupid Move Becomes The Most Booed: Palin Curse Hits Philly (5 comments) In what should have been a sweet, memorable moment for Philadelphian Kathy O'Connell, voted the Flyers top hockey mom, Snider forced O'Connell to become part of a national embarrassment when Palin was bought onto the ice next to her accompanied by a barrage of boos from the Philly faithful.

Mark Harris: Where Are the Slander Merchants Taking Us? (5 comments) The recent FoxNews investigative report on Barack Obama's "ties to controversial people and radical groups" on Hannity's America was a reminder of the almost startling degeneration of the American media in recent years. With a worsening economy, it's not such a stretch to see the ugly, violent rhetoric of the right-wing devolve even further into more direct, organized assaults on "liberal America."

Dr. Dennis Loo: On Naomi Wolf's Sounding the Alarm (13 comments)

Roland Michel Tremblay: World seeking new generation of thinkers and achievers My Generation does not require any of this. What? The nightmare we are in. I never saw the need to identify to any generation, but such a mess you have made of this world, whilst the worst is still to come, I feel now perhaps there is a need to. A necessity maybe to speak about what will come after the destruction of most of our institutions and way of life.

The Truth About ACORN's Voter Registration Drive Similar accusations were made, and attacks launched, against ACORN and other voter registration organizations in 2004 and 2006. These attacks were not only groundless, they have since been exposed as part of the U.S. Attorneygate scandal and revealed to be part of a systematic partisan agenda of voter suppression.

Roy S. Carson: A certain degree of schadenfreude in news of Chavez' announced budget cuts and bureaucratic austerity plans...

Linh Dinh: Death, with Compound Interest With its destruction of America's major rivals, World War II not only restored but greatly increased this country's prosperity and political clout, but with its oil running low and its industries gone, not even a global bloodbath will save it now. That doesn't mean it won't try.

Richard C. Cook: How to Save the U.S. Economy (1 comments) The "Cook Plan" for saving the U.S. economy is based on dividend-economics to build a grassroots economic and financial system to parallel the Federal Reserve System.

DAnne Burley: *Wall Street Collapsed a planned operation going back to Enron, Oklahoma City, Sept 11th 2001 - Follow the Money About how the same people used Credit Default Swaps to move this country into a third World Nation

DAnne Burley: *American Health Care The D'Anne Burley Show American Health Care

William Helbig: Colin Powell - Time to Fade Away This OpEd piece discusses the Adlai Stevenson moment by Colin Powell at the UN, unfortunately, it was all for naught, since most of the evidence was fabricated down a gun barrel, resulting in the disaster which is Iraq, and the mess concerning the US economy.

Roy S. Carson: Chavez was elected in 1998 to fulfill Venezuela's dreams ... why has his administration become such a nightmare? Such is the crap situation into which Venezuela has fallen today -- with only weeks away to local and regional elections -- which surely must transmit a huge, if not knock-out slap in the face to President Chavez Frias to have him understand that the corrupt bunch of lunatics in charge of his dishonored administration are assassinating everything good that he ever stood for.

Linh Dinh: Numbered As meaningless numbers slosh around in our minds, crippling our ability to think, our infinitely corrupt and ruthless ruling class swindles, legislates and no-bid contracts away trillions of our dollars. Whatever money they don't steal outright, they'll depreciate through inflation. Unlike the Amazonian Pirahas, we won't even have a chunk of land to stand on after they're done fleecing.

$516 Trillion ‘Time Bomb’ Set To Destroy World Economy (1 comments) What US billionaire Warren Buffett has called the real 'weapons of mass destruction', the ticking $516 Trillion ‘time bomb’ of the Global derivatives market is set to explode upon all of us, and as we can read as reported by London’s Independent News Service: “The market is worth more than $516 trillion, (£303 trillion), roughly 10 times the value of the entire world's output: it's been called the "ticking time-bomb".

McCain tussles with Palin over whipping up a mob mentality Palin has led the character attacks on Obama in the belief that McCain may be throwing away the election and her chance of becoming VP. Her supporters think if they lose on Nov 4, she should run for president in 2012. Palin remains far more popular than McCain with the party base. He regularly has to endure the spectacle of members of the audience leaving for their cars when it is is his turn to speak at joint rallies.

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Monday, October 13:

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 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 (1 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 Are markets exuding inverse 'irrational exuberance?'

US Surrenders Power to Appoint World Bank President 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! 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 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 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.

gabby hayes: Transportation for the Criminally Indifferent (2 comments) Pile infamy upon the nonvoter. He has given up his right to live among us. If we must build a fence to separate us from the unAmerican, build that fence around him.

Michael Hammerschlag: A Question of Judgment (2 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? 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.

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For October 12, 2008 a collection of local, state, national and international articles on electronic voting and election issues

Brian McAfee: *Too Few Aware Of World Orphan Week. An important ethical subject overlooked by nearly all media outlets.

Insider’s Projects Drained Missile-Defense Millions Michael Cantrell, an engineer at the Army Space and Missile Defense Command headquarters, along with his deputy, Doug Ennis, had lined up millions of dollars from Congress for defense companies. Now, Cantrell decided, it was time to take a cut. Recent scandals involving Randy Cunningham, and lobbyist Jack Abramoff, both now in prison, provided a glimpse into how special interests manipulate the federal government.

U.S. Aug. trade gap narrows as global economy stalls The nation's trade deficit narrowed by 3.5% to $59.1 billion, the Commerce Department said. The largest drop in exports came from autos, industrial supplies and consumer goods. Meanwhile, the U.S. imported less petroleum, autos, and capital goods

DMailCampaigns - Brand New Technique! For Doctors he program of using Email is not just for your current Patients, but to attract new ones. Email Campaigns for doctors we call Dmail. Dmail campaigns are similar to Direct mail. However; Demail is more effective, more traceable and less costly. Furthermore, the use of the word doctor includes, Dentists, Physicians, Physical Therapist, Optometrist, Chiropractors and most of all the health professionals I have not mentioned.

Science & Environment | 'Unbreakable' encryption unveiled Perfect secrecy has come a step closer with the launch of the world's first computer network protected by unbreakable quantum encryption at a scientific conference in Vienna. The network connects six locations across Vienna and in the nearby town of St Poelten, using 200 km of standard commercial fibre optic cables.

Pentagon Wants $450 Billion Increase Over Next Five Years Pentagon officials have prepared a new estimate for defense spending that is $450 billion more over the next five years than previously announced figures. The new estimate, which the Pentagon plans to release shortly before President Bush leaves office, would serve as a marker for the new president and is meant to place pressure on him to either drastically increase the size of the defense budget,

Former Top Reagan Aid Predicts Landslide for Obama Former Reagan political adviser Ed Rollins likened today's landscape to that in 1980, when voters were angry at President Jimmy Carter and the Democrats and turned to Reagan in droves once they felt comfortable with the idea of him as president. "Barack has met the threshold," Rollins said. "Once Reagan met the threshold, people wanted to get rid of Carter and they did in a landslide. This is going to turn into a landslide."

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 (47 comments) How strong is your support for the person who will get your vote? This poll is an attempt to locate America's heart.

Draft statement: Europe would guarantee bank debt Countries that use the euro will temporarily guarantee future bank debt to encourage lending and ease the credit crunch, according to a draft statement under discussion by European leaders Sunday. The declaration says the governments would guarantee "for an interim period and on appropriate commercial terms" new debt issued by banks for up to five years.

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

martinweiss: *writers protest 42-day detention without charges English propose new law holding people without charges.

Albert Milliron: North Korea will comply with U.S. nuclear inspections, Gets Removed from Terror List North Korea has agreed to United States Inspection Demands following a Bush Administration Agreement to remove the communist state from the State sponsor of Terror list

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.

Ellen Brodsky: Florida: Party Affiliation on Return Absentee Ballot Envelope Invites Fraud Voting must be cast in Secret and Publicly Counted. "Noone wants election officials or postal workers to know our party affiliation", "after the 2004 fiasco we want this election to be fair and square", said Brodsky.

The campaign's got your number, and your bar code BLUE BELL, Pennsylvania - Barack Obama, a former community organizer, is spending untold millions of dollars to identify and mobilize voters, and Republicans acknowledge that John McCain's team probably will be outspent and outmanned. This is an unusual situation for Republicans, masters of the ground game. In Blue Bell, McCain's volunteers crowded around a table, counting and bundling McCain-Palin door hangers.

All is forgiven; McCain returning to Letterman Wednesday with Obama, Thursday with Letterman. It will be McCain's 13th visit to the CBS program but his first since he angered Letterman by canceling last month.

Soyuz spacecraft lifts off on space station voyage The Soyuz TMA-13 capsule carrying American computer game millionaire Richard Garriott soared into a clear sky atop a Russian rocket as the latest paying space traveler's family watched from a viewing platform. Also aboard were U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov.

Cheney Biographer: VP Would Certainly See Bailout As Opportunity To Reinforce Unitary Executive The administration's initial plan doled out extreme powers immune of oversight to executive branch - the Section 8 provision of the original Paulson plan. Gellman said Cheney may have used the bailout as an "opportunity" to expand executive power...

EU chiefs confront markets crisis The 15 eurozone leaders are to meet in Paris to try to establish a common approach to the financial crisis. France's finance minister said their meeting would "follow up and execute upon" a five-point plan agreed by the group of seven industrialised nations

Philly Against War - Photo-essay on rally of Oct 10th (1 comments) Philly Against War conducted a spirited rally against the many wars of the Bush Administration in a very cheerful and noisy demonstration.

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!

Saturday, October 11:

See VIDEO of Gore Ad Rejected by ABC The "Repower America" ad ran on CBS, CNN, CNN Headline News, Fox News, and MSNBC. ABC was the only one to reject the ad, according to the Alliance. The time spot purchased on ABC cost the group nearly $100,000, according to the Alliance. Instead of airing "Repower America," ABC ran the group's "Free Us" ad, which was already running on the network.

ABC deems Gore climate change advert too 'controversial' for TV (2 comments) The ABC network has refused to air an advert produced by Al Gore's environmental group, ruling that its charge of US government favouritism to the oil industry is too "controversial" for television. An unseen narrator states that climate change can be combated through wind and solar power as well as "end[ing] our dependence on foreign oil". Ed. Note: Perhaps it was too "Gore-y" for the fair and balanced ABC...

Western Journalists in Iraq Stage Pullback of Their Own Veteran journalists say stories about Iraq, where roughly 155,000 US troops are deployed and where the United States spends approximately $10 billion a month, have become tougher to get on the air and into print. News coverage that once centered largely on the US military experience is shifting, like the country itself, to a story of Iraqis taking steps toward building their own government.

Delisting North Korea Did President Bush, reeling from the U.S. financial meltdown and continuing misfortune in Iraq, finally relent to North Korean saber-rattling and prematurely "delist" a country he once deemed part of the "axis of evil"?

The Quadrillion Dollar Powder Keg Waiting To Blow (1 comments) It's like a Zippo lighter on high flame lighting the fuse leading to the quadrillion dollar powder keg waiting to blow any day now, and Hanky Panky and Helicopter Ben are running around like raving, corporate fascist lunatics trying to stomp out the fuse before the whole world financial system goes up in a blaze of glory.

Former McCain Strategist Warns Against "Angry Mob" You have changed. You have a choice: Go down in history as a decent senator and an honorable military man with many successes, or go down in history as the latest abettor of right-wing extremist hate.

David Iglesias: Dangerous New Turn in Justice Department Investigation No longer just a civil matter to blithely ignore, this ominous development could result in current and high level officials being indicted for crimes. I suspect the special counsel will "follow the emails" in the way that "follow the money" brought down Nixon's men during Watergate.

Report: McCain Exploded With Rage During Gambling Outing 'DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU'RE TALKING TO?'McCain continued,his voice rising and his hands now raised in the 'bring it on' position.He was red-faced.By this time all the action at the table had stopped.I was completely shocked. McCain had totally lost it,and in the space of about ten seconds.'Sir, you must be courteous to the other players at the table,'the pit boss said to McCain."DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?"

Greg Palast: *Newsnight exposes election irregularities in '00 and '04. 2008?? Watch this 14 minute video from BBC:America Newsnight Friday, October 10.

Without a Trace: The Smokeless Gun of Flagrant Election Fixing The point is that millions of the poorest,most marginalized Americans are being denied their right to vote for whomever they please.This is,as even the New York Times acknowledges, a federal crime.But it is not,however much the Times tries to obsfuscate the issue,a perpetratorless one.

Vickie Karp and Karen Renick: VoteRescue Radio moving to Global Truth Network! Our show is temporarily off the air. Tho rebroadcasts may be playing on wtprn and show archives are still stored there,the station is actually down.We are very fortunate to have been asked by WTPRN's originator to move our show over to his new network,"Global Truth Network"which could be up and running as soon as next week!On our first show on GTN, if it IS next Friday,October 17th, our guests will be BEV Harris & Paul Lehto.

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For October 11, 2008 a collection of local, state, national and international articles on electronic voting and election issues

Dan Lieberman: The Trade Balance and the Limits of the Paulson Rescue Plan

Shelters and Soup Kitchens Hold Crisis Front Lines Homeless shelters and soup kitchens serve more while donations decline.

"Bush has been telling people privately that it's a good thing he's in charge... (1 comments) ...during the country's rough times because he has "a good group of people in D.C. working for him."

FOX Sends Cease & Desist to McCain Web Operator The notification states, "Fox News requests that you immediately cease and desist from any further use of the copyrighted material and that access through the Website to the Material, and any other Fox News materials, be immediately disabled." Two weeks ago, NBC sent a cease & desist to the Obama campaign after it used images of Tom Brokaw and Keith Olbermann in a campaign ad.

Gustav Wynn: Rockstars For Change: Swing State Stadium Concerts Coming The Beastie Boys have announced a battleground state stadium tour starting Oct. 28 to get out the vote. Joining the Beasties will be Sheryl Crow, Tenacious D, Crosby & Nash and others but check out this STAGGERING list of artists who have endorsed Obama or denounced the McCain/Bush ethos: The Stones, The Dead, Dylan, The Allmans, Stevie, Billy, Neil, Bon Jovi, Bruce, Floyd, Rage, Green Day, Heart, Foo, Pearl Jam...

Saturday Morning Status Report of National Polls Although the pace of new statewide polls slowed a bit yesterday, the latest releases indicate no change in the overall status of the race for President. Obama and Biden continue to hold a strong lead McCain and Palin nationally and within the states necessary to win an electoral college majority.

US Probe Determines Palin Abused Power as Governor A legislative committee has determined that Sarah Palin, US Republican vice-presidential candidate, abused her power as Alaska's governor when she fired the state's public safety commissioner,

Swiss Government Issues Bill of Rights for Plants Revolution is in the air, as the Swiss Government's Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology concludes that plants have rights, and we have to treat them appropriately. A majority of the panel concluded that "living organisms should be considered morally for their own sake because they are alive."

Radio Ads: Now or Never The Nader/Gonzalez campaign discusses the idea of radio ads and explains why ever since the bailout they have become the opposition for Americans to support.

Appeals court sides with Ohio secretary of state A federal appeals court sided with Ohio's top elections official Friday in her running battle with Republicans over how to verify the eligibility of newly registered voters. Brunner argued that it would take two to three days to create the necessary computer programs, and that nothing in the Help America Vote Act required her to do what the lower court ordered. A three-judge panel of the appeals court agreed in a split decisi

Obama fundraiser, convicted of fraud, spills beans Rezko also was friendly with Obama - offering him a job when he finished law school, funding his earliest political campaigns and purchasing a lot next to his house. But based on the known facts, charges so far and testimony at Rezko's trial, there's no indication there'll be an October surprise that could hurt the Democratic presidential nominee - even though Rezko says prosecutors are pressing him for dirt about Obama.

Troopergate Investigator: Palin 'Unlawfully Abused Her Authority' The news isn't good for the Republican vice presidential nominee -- and is an unpleasant reminder of the power abuses of the Bush years, A news round-up on the report suggesting Sarah Palin violated state ethics laws:

Martha Rosenberg: Can In-Class Huckstering Make Milk Drinking Cool? (5 comments) Is there anyone who hasn't posed with a milk mustache except O.J. Simpson and Phil Spector? And they may be looking at the paperwork now.

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 back to a 2 party system in which the lies of 2 the 1 party system lie a lot, what you have remaining is either a ZERO party system, a 1 Party System opposed by 2 of 1 half of 1 Parties, so three equals=1=0, I think...???

Sunday, August 24:

Robert N Smith: Personhood of corporations. (26 comments) What status does a corporation have?

John Olsen: The conventions and escort services. (8 comments) A question as to which of the conventions will benefit escort services the most.

Friday, August 22:

Kris Malmquist: Poll: Anthrax Attacks Solved? (9 comments) Do you agree with the government's conclusion that Mr. Bruce Ivins was solely responsible for the anthrax attacks of mid-September 2001?

Gene Cappa: WTC 7 Brought Down By Fire NIST Concludes - Do You Agree? (52 comments) NIST Report on WTC 7 indicates "fire" alone collapsed the skyscraper building in a mere 6.5 seconds.

PeterJ: We're Having An Election! We're Off To See The Wizard, We're Out Of The Woods......Bull! (6 comments) Something must be done. I don't believe that we can accomplish it from the outside in but I do believe that there's someone in our government who's well aware of our plight (as I believe Nancy Pelosi is but is very afraid) who is not afraid but needs our numbers in order to accomplish their goals. We need to let them know we're here and not afraid to stand up. Do you Agree that petitions and rally's will accomplish nothing?

Tony Forest: Johnny Got His Gun