For someone who is selling himself as a “uniter,” Barack Obama has managed to create fissures and fault lines between and among every conceivable voting bloc – and has even divided spouses and families. Case in point: Jesse Jackson père and fils having a public falling out over the elder Jackson’s having been caught on [...]

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When The Stiletto was but a little penknife, a family member who was a young child during WWII recounted how easily the locals could pick out American spies: When an Americans eats, (s)he holds the fork in the left hand and the knife in the right hands while cutting food, then puts the knife down and switches the fork to the right [...]

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A manhunt set out for an Illinois murder suspect ended with success Tuesday when authorities captured the man outside a bar in Granite City, Illinois, about 10 miles north of St. Louis Mo. Nicholas Sheley,28,was arrested after he had been recognized by a customer inside the bar. The customer, Gary Range, notified a police officer that [...]

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Illinois State Police have started a manhunt for a man, they believe to be armed and dangerous. They consider this man to be a person of interest in the homicide cases of at least five people. They are offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the man. The bodies of two [...]

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The other day, The Stiletto and a friend were debating the pros and cons of various McCain veep picks. The Stiletto posited a McCain-Lieberman ticket, while acknowledging the ambivalence Jews felt the first time Lieberman was tapped for the bottom half of a presidential ticket.   The Stiletto’s friend added that he didn’t think the combo [...]

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Former Fulton County (GA) magistrate judge William Garrett Jr., 72, his son Russell Garrett, 43, and his daughter-in-law, Malika Garrett, 42, were arraigned in federal court on a nine-count indictment that included human trafficking, alien harboring, witness tampering, and making false statements in what a federal prosecutor called a case of “modern-day slavery,” reports the [...]

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The MSM is at a loss to understand why Michelle Obama got tagged as an “angry black woman,” and is bending over backwards to disabuse working class men and woman – in particular – of this notion. Case in point, this fawning profile in The New York Times, which was unintentionally revealing in ways that [...]

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Jodie Percival, 25, of Nottinghamshire, England, and her fiancée decided on an abortion when a test eight weeks into her pregnancy revealed the baby would have inherited a serious kidney ailment, multicystic dysplastic kidneys. Her first son had died of the condition, and her second has just one kidney. Almost three months later, Percival learned [...]

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Though The Stiletto lives in “an inner city suburb,” she’s not down with that new-fangled “hippety hop music” and typically needs to look up ghetto slang references on UrbanDictionary.com.  Apparently, there is brouhaha brewing over a Fox News caption which referred to Michelle Obama as “Obama’s Baby Mama” – that is, an ex-girlfriend with whom [...]

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Hillary Clinton finally said the words that Dem party poohbahs were waiting to hear: “Today, as I suspend my campaign, I congratulate him on the victory he has won and the extraordinary race he has run. I endorse him and throw my full support behind him. And I ask all of you to join me [...]

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One of the chief arguments against a constitutional convention is that “they” will take away the pensions. In fact, there are some proponents (chiefly business groups) that advocate scrapping the pension system because it is a large part of the state’s debt. To be fair, in about 10 years, the state’s pension obligations threaten the [...]

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The Wall Street Journal’s Dan Henninger recently crafed his idea of what Hillary Clinton’s “concession speech” would be like (complete with stage directions!): This has been the most gratifying experience of my life. Together, we sent a message into this political system that will not be forgotten. (Pause for cheers.) That’s right. You will not be [...]

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It’s over! It’s finally over! Barack Obama (D-IL) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) split the last two primaries between them – he won MT 56 percent to 41 percent, she won SD 55 percent to 45 percent. Exit polling shows that in both states, voting blocs – white working class, older women, college educated – aligned [...]

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(The idea for this “satire” came weeks ago. But after the 5-21-08 stories reporting Hillary’s unnerving references to the 2000 recount, you’ve gotta wonder….)  Back during Hillary’s third or fourth presidential term, someone explained her near maniacal tenacity: “Hillary Clinton is a pit bull who was chained to the tree too long when she was [...]

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It took several years in the Oval Office before it became apparent George W. Bush was not the “uniter” he promised he would be when running for office. Being a young, energetic fellow, Barack Obama (D-IL) has proved it even before he secured his party’s nomination. The Dems are so polarized along gender, racial and [...]

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The New York Times displayed its habitual hypocrisy regarding the “pastor eruptions” that have plagued the campaigns of John McCain (R-AZ) and Barack Obama (D-IL). Here’s what the editorial board of The New York Times wrote about McCain’s repudiation of the comments and endorsements of Rev. Rod Parsley and Rev. John C. Hagee (emphasis, The Stiletto’s): [...]

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Jumping off a sinking ship and jumping on the bandwagon are just doing what comes naturally, right? Not for Hillary Clinton’s supporters in KY, who stuck by their candidate, despite the certainty that Barack Obama’s win in OR would push him past her in pledged delegates. And as in WV and other states in which [...]

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The Mountain State proved insurmountable to Barack Obama, who conceded the contest to Hillary Clinton before the first vote was even cast. Unlike last week’s nail-biter in IN, within a nanosecond of polls closing at 7:30 p.m. ET, the networks put the check mark next to Hillary’s name (65 percent to Obama’s 28 percent). Hillary [...]

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For the 16 years they have been married, Michelle Obama has been Barack Obama’s closest advisor, second only to Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Should Obama be elected, his presidency promises to be another two-fer. In case you have any doubts, columnist Robert Novak reports that Hillary Clinton will not be offered the vice presidency, because Michelle Obama has [...]

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Barack Obama (D-IL) had said that IN would be the tie-breaker, after Hillary Clinton (D-NY) won PA and he won NC as he was expecting to. And so the tie was broken – but just barely. Hillary won IN 51 percent to 49 percent, and lost NC by 41 percent to 56 percent. Hillary’s disappointing [...]

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New Jersey art dealer, George Wieschenberg of Lambertville, was sentenced to six years of prison for being a marijuana “farmer.” According to MSNBC, Wieschenberg, pleaded guilty to “operating a marijuana production facility,” in which he grew marijuana plants, said State Attorney General Anne Milgrim. Back in October of 2007, New Jersey State Police officers saw [...]

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It took some 20 years, but finally Rev. Jeremiah Wright said something that got Barack Obama’s goat: Wright called him a politician. That was the last straw. Obama was moved to take Wright to task for his lost week-end (rather, the week-end Wright probably destroyed his chances of becoming president) spent dissing all those white voters in MA and [...]

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After the fiasco two weeks ago, when the Illinois Senate buried Rep. Franks’ recall amendment (HJCRA28), Senator Hendon introduced his own recall amendment in the Senate. This version (SJCRA70) is substantially similar to Rep. Franks’ recall but has a few changes: the ability to recall judges, the Governor and Lt. Governor have to be recalled [...]

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Does Hillary Clinton (D-NY) have a point that Barack Obama (D-IL) is the weaker candidate against John McCain (R-AZ) because of his inexperience and inability to attract white, blue collar support? Is Obama justified in his claims that Clinton is the weaker candidate in the general election because she is too polarizing and Americans are [...]

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The last time Dems were considering which presidential hopeful should be the party’s standard-bearer, Howard Dean screamed (video link) and a frightened rank-and-file hurriedly anointed John Kerry the frontrunner – deeming him the most “electable” in the field – and then had the rest of the campaign to repent at leisure as Kerry became embroiled [...]

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Sen. Hillary Clinton (NY) won the Dem primary in PA – an important swing state – with a respectable 10-point margin (55 percent to 45 percent) over her opponent, Sen. Barack Obama (IL). Both Hilary and Obama held onto their core supporters, and neither made inroads into the other’s base. Women, senior citizens and less [...]

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April 22 is here–Earth Day, and Scorched Earth Day in Pennsylvania. Only fools predict political outcomes this year. I qualify. So here’s what’s going to happen. Hillary will probably win the primary. If she wins by any more than two percent, she will trumpet her triumph as a come-from-behind victory, even though she started with a [...]

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During the Dem  debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, the MSM – represented the other night by ABC News’ Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos – finally began vetting Barack Obama (IL), asking questions that made the candidate squirm and his supporters scream. For her part, Hillary Clinton (NY) took the opportunity to vulch. [...]

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It’s true! Would hysterical conservatives lie to you about a Godless Muslim Koran-fondling wild man like Scary Barry? A man who doesn’t always wear a flag pin on his lapel? That was mighty careless of him. You’d think the Anti-Christ would be a little more devious than that. Since Christ was clearly a white American, [...]

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In their stump speeches Barack Obama (D-IL) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) have done their best to create what Washington Post columnist George Will calls “economic hypochondria,” and their surrogates in the MSM are laboring mightily to find everyday folks who can put a face to the suffering the candidates claim is caused by the “housing [...]

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