According to September polling from Gallup, the percentage of Americans who have “negative” feelings about the economy is now at 81 percent. But Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) campaign admitted this weekend that it is trying to distract the country from … Read more »
Criticizing Sarah Palin is truly shooting fish in a barrel. But given the huge attention she is getting, you can’t just ignore what she has to say. And there was one thing she said in the debate with Joe Biden … Read more »
Some of John McCain’s friends, from the good old days when he talked straight, feared that his Greek tragedy would be that he would be defeated by George Bush twice: once in 2000, because of W.’s no-conscience campaigning, and again … Read more »
American business, typically a reliable Republican cheerleader, is decidedly lukewarm about Senator John McCain’s proposal to overhaul the health care system by revamping the tax treatment of health benefits, officials with leading trade groups say.
The officials, with organizations like … Read more »
Sarah Palin ended her debate performance last Thursday with a slightly garbled quote from Ronald Reagan about how, if we aren’t vigilant, we’ll end up “telling our children and our children’s children” about the days when America was free. It … Read more »
Through most of the 1990s and until recently, the Supreme Court had a solid 6-3 majority in favor of upholding the right of a woman to choose abortion. But the margin has shrunk to one, now that Justice Sandra Day … Read more »
SARAH PALIN’S post-Couric/Fey comeback at last week’s vice presidential debate was a turning point in the campaign. But if she “won,” as her indulgent partisans and press claque would have it, the loser was not Joe Biden. It was her … Read more »
Early in last night’s vice-presidential debate, Sarah Palin said that she might not answer the questions as moderator Gwen Ifill posed them. This was the Alaska governor’s way of saying she was going to stick to the talking points she … Read more »
Last night’s match-up between Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) and Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) was one “most highly anticipated vice-presidential debates in history.” The event at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, capped off one of Palin’s most high-profile weeks, in … Read more »
In 1970, in the midst of the longest bear market since World War II, President Richard Nixon declared: “Frankly, if I had any money, I’d be buying stocks right now.”
The market soared.
Now, I’ve been asking myself, just for … Read more »
