President ’08

Why won’t McCain and Palin take it to Obama and the Dems over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?

By Donald B. Hawthorne | October 4, 2008 |

Why McCain Goes Easy on Fannie and the CRA. How McCain could respond. More on how McCain could respond. An ad. More historical particulars here and here. ADDENDUM And now this news about Barney Frank’s conflict of interest.

Creepy, again….

By Donald B. Hawthorne | October 4, 2008 |

More, following this. ADDENDUM Instapundit has more. ADDENDUM #2 More: Dear Leader.

Effects of the Obama Tax Plan

By Carroll Andrew Morse | October 3, 2008 |

From my liveblog of last night’s Vice-Presidential debate…[9:15] I don’t believe the “no one under $250,000 will see a tax-increase” claim. Isn’t the Obama tax plan based on a child tax-credit?The exact statement by Joe Biden I was referring to was…No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama’s plan will see one single penny…

Obama’s Nightmare in Passing

By Justin Katz | October 2, 2008 |

I mention this only because I caught it out of the corner of my eye and thought it was striking: On the FoxNews “focus group” of undecided voters who watched the debate together for the network, they were discussing reactions to Governor Palin and whether she’s qualified, and one gentlemen pointed out that she’d been…

Liveblogging the Palin-Biden Vice-Presidential Debate!

By Carroll Andrew Morse | October 2, 2008 |

[Final] The more I hear “ya know, people don’t really vote for the Vice-President” from Dem-leaning analysts, the more I will think that Palin “won”. If I had to make a lame sports analogy, I would say that Palin pitched a scoreless 7th with her team one run down. [10:33] Nothing remarkable in the closing…

A Creative Lack of Imagination

By Justin Katz | October 2, 2008 |

In search of a Why for my heartbroken disappointment at finding the fifth installment of George R.R. Martin’s excellent Song of Ice and Fire series absent from the bookstore shelves although long expected, I found my way to this post on the author’s blog: Doing Good Is Its Own Reward… … but when you can…

Insufficient transparency and yet more unanswered questions

By Donald B. Hawthorne | October 2, 2008 |

For a guy who already has associations with unrepentant terrorists, America-hating preachers, and convicted felons, this latest information does not inspire trust or confidence in his judgment, now does it? (H/T to Instapundit.) ADDENDUM Joe raises a fair point in the Comments section about NewsMax and I posted this because the article’s author, Timmerman, has…

McCarthy: Stifling political debate with threats of prosecution is not the “rule of law” — it’s tyranny

By Donald B. Hawthorne | October 1, 2008 |

Andy McCarthy: In London last week, a frightful warning was sounded about encroaching tyranny. At an important conference, speaker after impassioned speaker warned of the peril to Western values posed by freedom-devouring sharia — the Islamic legal code. Like all tyrannies, sharia’s first target is speech: Suppress all examination of Muslim radicalism by threats of…

Oh my, it just never stops: In the tank for Obama

By Donald B. Hawthorne | October 1, 2008 |

Gwen Ifill, moderator for this Thursday’s VP debate, is in the tank for Obama. From Instapundit: A READER AT A MAJOR NEWSROOM EMAILS: “Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in…

Creepy, indeed

By Donald B. Hawthorne | September 30, 2008 |

A Kinder, Gentler, Happier Cultural Revolution. At least as long as you don’t speak out against The One. ADDENDUM From Instapundit: Reader Raymone Eckhard writes that this is creepy. Yes. Roger Simon finds it disturbing, too. “It is the kind of exploitation of children that reminds me of Young Pioneer Camps I saw when visiting…