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I thought it was really nice of Rudy Giulani to take a few nights off from his mistresses and having his goons sodomize unarmed men with broom handles to give a very effective speech last night. Giuliani was never going to be president, but this line should remind everyone of exactly what allows a cross-dressing […]

What I find odd about frustration over Governor Palin‘s pastor and his connections to the Jews For Jesus organization is the fact that anyone is offended in the first place. While it’s true that the group tries to convert Jews “through subterfuge,” I could probably count on my right hand the number of Jews who […]

Jake Tapper has Gail Fenumiai, director of the Alaska Division of Elections, stating that Governor Palin was never officially a member of the Alaska Independence Party, although folks from the AIP are standing by their story that she was a member. However, Palin’s husband Todd was a registered member of the AIP from 1995 to […]

The LA Times talks to a Republican strategist who claims that’s what the Palin “vetting” amounted to. One Republican strategist with close ties to the campaign described the candidate’s closest supporters as “keeping their fingers crossed” in hopes that additional information does not force McCain to revisit the decision. According to this Republican, who would […]

Ta-Nehisi’s basic insight that the beer-track/wine-track duality fails to account for the varying tribes of alcohol drinking Americans is invaluable, but it’s also worth pointing out that John McCain has vowed to “veto beer” which can’t

New Orleans was spared the worst of Hurricane Gustav, and most importantly, while the storm surge topped the levees to the west of the city, they held. Mayor Nagin is cautioning that the city is not yet prepared for residents to return. While the storm was not as bad as Hurricane Katrina, Nagin and the […]

Heather MacDonald is one of those conservatives that is unhappy about the Palin selection, but she is beside herself for other reasons as well. Had the 44-year-old Sarah Palin, whose greatest political accomplishment before being elected Alaska’s governor in 2006 was serving as mayor of Wasilla (population 9,780), been named Stanley, she would have had […]

Many people seemed to be moved by Michelle Obama’s speech last night. Political figures regularly go through the motions of presenting themselves as “regular” people, but as I watched Michelle’s speech last night, I felt frustrated that ultimately her task was greater: she had to convince a great deal of Americans that the color of […]

“In case you hadn’t heard, Barack HUSSEIN Obama is BLACK and he has relatives that are also BLACK and POOR and MUSLIM and he hates them but if he becomes President he’s going to give all his BLACK, POOR, MUSLIM relatives all America’s money, which won’t happen if you vote for McCain because McCain is […]

Dave Wiegel has a great roundup of positives and negatives regarding Biden’s selection, two of which particularly interest me: Biden’s close ties to the credit card industry, as reflected by his vote for the 2005 bankruptcy bill, and his lukewarm appreciation of civil liberties. Many credit card companies are based in Biden’s home state of […]