Last weekend, the Bush administration took the necessary step of bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two congressionally chartered, but privately held, troubled mortgage giants whose missions include “boosting homeownership and funding apartment construction for low- and moderate-income … Read more »
Seen from the air, Sarah Palin’s state is an environmental wonderland. From Anchorage to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, there is a vast landscape of snow-capped peaks, fjords, crystal glaciers, coastal lagoons, wide river deltas and tundra.
Mississippi’s governor, Haley Barbour, and its secretary of state have come up with a particularly cynical dirty trick for the November election. Let’s call it: “Where’s the Senate race?”Defying state law, they have decided to hide a hard-fought race for … Read more »
I hope John McCain doesn’t throw his slippers at Sarah Palin’s head or get as acerbic as Henry Higgins did with Eliza Doolittle when she did not learn quickly enough. McCain’s Pygmalion has to be careful, because his Galatea might … Read more »
Did Sarah Palin wrongfully push to have her ex-brother-in law fired? Was she really against the “Bridge to Nowhere?” Did she really sell Alaska’s plane on eBay, or just list it on eBay? Did she actually have any substantial duties … Read more »
The world according to John McCain is one in which America is triumphant at home and abroad thanks to the Bush legacy, rolling to victory internationally and mastering its domestic economic problems. If daily news, like the 10 French soldiers … Read more »
In his “fourth insider account from the Bush White House,” The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-2008, veteran journalist Bob Woodward “tracks the growing alarm in the White House in 2006, as U.S. casualties mounted during Iraq’s plunge … Read more »
I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing … Read more »
SARAH PALIN makes John McCain look even older than he is. And he seemed more than willing to play that part on Thursday night. By the time he slogged through his nearly 50-minute acceptance speech… Read more »
