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Obama and Ayers in the News — Finally
It’s amazing that the press is now acting as if Senator Barack Obama’s relationship with terrorists William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn is a lighting bolt that’s suddenly come out of the clear blue sky. It’s not and…
by Matthew Vadum on October 5, 2008

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Huffington Post Covers Up Obama’s ACORN Roots
Flaky conservative blowhard-cum-flaky liberal blowhard Arianna Huffington’s much visited gossip website, The Huffington Post, is just the latest media outlet trying to keep Senator Barack Obama’s exhaustively documented history of…
by Matthew Vadum on October 4, 2008

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The Community Reinvestment Act Helped Cause the Wall Street Crisis
Getting class-warriors to admit they’re wrong about anything is always a struggle. Witness Bill O’Reilly’s attempt to get House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) to admit he was…
by Matthew Vadum on October 4, 2008

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Yet More Proof that Cynthia McKinney is a Lunatic
Although it might sound like a press release from the paranoid, prison-obsessed Center for Constitutional Rights, the Green Party’s under-medicated presidential candidate is accusing the U.S. Department of Defense of…
by Matthew Vadum on October 4, 2008

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Paulson Wall Street Welfare Bill Now the Law of the Land
A short time after Henry Paulson’s Wall Street welfare package received final congressional approval today, President George W. Hoover signed the colossally flawed bill into law, AP reports. Conservatives, as in real, living,…
by Matthew Vadum on October 3, 2008

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Greening Hollywood
Groups like the non-profit Environmental Media Association (EMA) are urging Hollywood producers and screenwriters to insert discreet environmentalist messages into popular movies and TV shows. It’s called ‘eco-messaging’—soft-core ideological product…
by Eric Heidenreich on October 3, 2008

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The Ecology of Statism: Horner’s Reflections on Carbon Provisions in Paulson Bailout 2.0
Christopher C. Horner, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming, has an interesting take on the strange provisions regarding the taxation of carbon that were apparently inserted…
by Matthew Vadum on October 3, 2008

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Paulson Bailout 2.0 Larded with Huge, Disgusting Slabs of Pork many of which are Green
The House of Representatives has approved Henry Paulson’s second try at bailing out Wall Street. Shame on them. It is loaded down with buckets of pork. CNN has a decent summary of…
by Matthew Vadum on October 3, 2008

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Veep Debate Transcript
The Commission on Presidential Debates, a nonprofit organization, has conveniently posted a transcript of last night’s debate between the two major party’s vice presidential candidates, Senator Joe Biden (Democrat) and Alaska’s…
by Matthew Vadum on October 3, 2008

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Paulson, Congress to California: Drop Dead! (It Probably Won’t Happen.)
Hat in hand, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a pretend conservative Republican, is asking President Bush’s left-wing Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, to lend cash-strapped California $7 billion. Hey, what’s $7…
by Matthew Vadum on October 3, 2008