Category: Election

Sarah Palin: Why Experience Matters

 Staff  September 18, 2008  0 Comments on Sarah Palin: Why Experience Matters

By David Brooks / New York Times / Originally published: September 15, 2008 Philosophical debates arise at the oddest times,…

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A Crash Course in Economic Crashes

 Staff  September 17, 2008  2 Comments on A Crash Course in Economic Crashes

Each week, sometimes daily now, we slide by a new economic warning sign, by another wreck that’s already off the…

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The Party Police

 Staff  September 17, 2008  0 Comments on The Party Police

The National Conventions Are Over But Controversy Still Stands On How They Were Run by Amy Goodman / DemocrayNow /…

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Obama: Find Your Inner Populist

 Staff  September 17, 2008  1 Comment on Obama: Find Your Inner Populist

Obama needs to denounce the those scoundrels from both parties who got us in this financial mess. By Robert Scheer…

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Are We About to Go to War With Pakistan?

 Frank Gormlie  September 16, 2008  1 Comment on Are We About to Go to War With Pakistan?

We have to ask this question despite the assurances we are being given. There’s been a flurry of diplomatic activity…

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Obama’s Youth Movement

 Staff  September 16, 2008  0 Comments on Obama’s Youth Movement

By Peter Dreier / The Nation /  September 15, 2008 Twenty-year-old Tobin Van Ostern finished his sophomore year last spring…

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McCain and the Depression of 2008

 Gregg Robinson  September 15, 2008  3 Comments on McCain and the Depression of 2008

“The Fundamentals of the American Economy are strong.” John McCain before the 2008 election “Prosperity is just around the corner.”…

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A Palin Theocracy

 Staff  September 14, 2008  2 Comments on A Palin Theocracy

by: Marjorie Cohn / t r u t h o u t | Perspective / Thursday 11 September 2008 John…

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Palin Will Never be America’s ‘EveryWoman’

 Patty Jones  September 14, 2008  0 Comments on Palin Will Never be America’s ‘EveryWoman’

In what the AKMuckracker from the Mudflats blog called “the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state,”…

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Olbermann Slams Republicans For Exploiting 9/11

 Staff  September 11, 2008  2 Comments on Olbermann Slams Republicans For Exploiting 9/11

On the eve of the seventh anniversary of 9/11, Keith Olbermann delivered a special comment slamming Republicans for their exploitation…

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