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Andrew Malcolm over at the LATimes is wondering what to make of Sarah Palin. Her poll numbers are low, both when the polls ask if she is qualified to be president and also when asked if people would vote for those she supports, yet in this primary season a lot of those she endorsed have […]
The Middle East figures Obama is a patsy and is vieing for who can hate Israel the most (the reborn Ottoman Empire, or the reborn Persian Empire?). At the same time, Obama’s oil spill policy gets ripped in the Rolling Stone of all places. There go the baby boomers. Time for a distraction, folks. Certain […]
Sarah Palin is still making headlines, and her book “Going Rogue” is now a best seller. Much of what I have read about her and the book seems to be viewed through the “inner beltway” mindset, by those who automatically hate those of a different political persuasion. All of these opinions try to calculate how […]
Ah, a British paper just pooh poohed the British victory at the Battle of Agincourt, saying that Prince Hal was not outnumbered 4 to 1, merely outnumbered 2 to 1. Actually, the author misses the point, which is that the elite knights of France got slowed down by the mud and were massacred by ordinary […]
“As a public official, I expect criticism and I expect to be held accountable for how I govern, but the personal, salacious nature of recent reporting, and often the refusal of the media to correct obvious mistakes, unfortunately discredits too many in journalism today, making it difficult for many Americans to believe what they see […]
All weekend, when I surf the web I’ve been reading various interpretations on why Sarah Palin has resigned. Since I live in the Philippines, and am a registered Democrat in the US, it’s not my fight. Yet what I see is that those who ridicule her seem to be in two camps. One is the […]
I was happy to find that David Letterman has joined the woman hating bigots such as Rush Limbaugh and Gordon Liddy in the NOW Hall of Shame. Comedians in search of a laugh should really know better than to snicker about men having sex with teenage girls (or young women) less than half their age. […]
Martin Luther King once wished that we could be judged by not by the colour of our skin but by our personal achievements. I’m old enough to remember my own medical school had a (unacknowledged) quota for Jewish students (ten percent of the class), blacks and Asians (one or two token students), and up to […]
Blogging from PHOENIX— Alaskan Governor and former republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, in her first public statements about her new grandson took time to dispel inaccurate descriptions of her daughter’s fiance and future son-in-law, Levi Johnston, who has been characterized as a drop out. She told People magazine “You need to know both Levi and […]
While establishment republicans snagged most of the plum conference appointments, they still managed to make sour grapes out of Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin’s stealing the Republican Governors conference media spotlight. The governors met in Miami to discuss the future of a party shattered in the last two election cycles. The parties National and State house […]
Blogging from Phoenix: Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin spent some time with FOX network host Greta Van Susteren and from this hard core liberal bloggers perspective. She pretty much dispelled the rumors and gossip being “leaked” to the media by former McCain campaign staffers. While the networks still report as gospel truth every utterance of the crew […]
Blogging from Phoenix: GOP insiders are reporting, former presidential candidate Mitt Romney is making his anticipated bid for control of the Republican Party. Political insiders also claim he is quickly becoming the principle figure behind continued efforts to ramp up public attacks on Sarah Palin. The strategy to ridicule Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, is a tactic […]
Blogging from Phoenix: Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin spent some time today participating via Teleconference with prominent national conservatives, who were assembled in the Virginia countryside spit-balling strategy to rebuild the shattered Republican Party. My confidential source reports the Governor, who was scheduled to be at work today. Stayed home after she was contacted and asked to […]
Reporting from Phoenix, “Exclusive BOMBSHELL” revelation at the bottom of the post. While President Elect Barack Obama hit the ground running this morning in preparation for what both parties and the current administration agree is the need for an unprecedented acceleration of the traditional process of transition. Sarah Palin is doing a little staging of […]
In the wake of Governor Sarah Palin’s cheerful insistence the legislative report into the trooper gate probe cleared her of any wrongdoing. I join those who share concern the pressures of the campaign may be taking a negative toll on her mental health. Its an issue that obligates me to set aside partisan perspective and […]
Did you know that October was Domestic Violence Awareness Month? Domestic violence can be done by men or women, occurs with married couples or in informal relationships, heterosexual couples or gay couples. As a doctor, I’ve treated cases among all ethnic groups, among the rich and poor, and in educated and uneducated people. Yes, fellows, […]
By Pam Siegfried Special to The Stiletto Blog As a convenience store clerk who works the graveyard shift I have been robbed seven times. Because I am willing to walk home from work alone, I have been sexually assaulted twice. Sexual assault covers two crimes – an aggravated assault (in my case, stabbing) and/or a […]
Even some of my die hard republican friends are expressing shock after reading an investigative report linking Governor Sarah Palin to gun toting separatists posted by investigative journalists Max Blumenthal and David Neiwert at Salon.Com. The very depth and intimacy of Sarah’s relationship with these radicals but for black and white documentation would make for […]
A panel of 44 men and women armed with dials numbered from 0 (most negative) to 100 (most positive) assembled by CBS to watch the veep debate at its TV City research facility in Las Vegas yielded an unexpected finding: Biden did better than Palin when he talked about the Iraq war, but the tables […]
I am confident the answer to the question posed in my headline is a resounding no, despite vicious blog attacks saying it. As is the fact Barack Obama does not pal around with terrorists, as the vice presidential candidate claimed today. I made sure to qualify my headline by closing it with a question mark. Something […]
Decades ago a rather insignificant individual made a statement during the water gate hearings that didn’t draw much attention on the evening news; he casually mentioned the fact Nixon taped conversations in the oval office. Some historians mark that day as the unstoppable beginning of the end for Richard Nixon. Her Excellency the Governor of […]
In another bizarre twist to the continuing revelations concerning Sarah Palin, it seems we might have to add Witch hunter to the long list of resume skills qualifying her to assume the second highest office in the land. If we go alphabetically it would come right after moose hunter. One of Her spiritual advisers, in fact the man she directly […]
Sen. Barack Obama talks a good game when it comes to such issues as anti-discrimination, the value of military service and the importance of ensuring children get a high-quality education in public schools, but the choices he has made in his own life suggest that he doesn’t believe the stuff in his own stump speeches […]
In November 2006, police had an altercation in California. During the altercation with a student who refused to produce an ID card, the suspect was tasered several times. But in addition to this, a bystander who asked the policeman for his badge number, and the policeman threatened to use his taser on the student. The […]
The former press secretary for Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin told reporters in Anchorage. The investigation has been “hijacked” by “Obama operatives” even as the McCain campaign announced, GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin would not voluntarily cooperate with the special prosecutor appointed by a bi-partisan legislative committee last July. Partisan claims aside trooper gate began […]
Charlie Gibson’s three-part interview (video) with Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin last week scored big in the ratings, reports trade pub Broadcasting & Cable: Charles Gibson’s interview … on Thursday’s World News elevated the broadcast to its most-watched installment since February. World News was watched by 9.73 million people with a 2.5 rating/10 […]
Willie has a folding table set up on the corner of 7th Ave. and 28th St. – at the crossroads where the Garment District, the Flower District and Chelsea commingle – from which he sells political buttons. Monday through Friday from about 10 am to 7 pm, you’ll find Willie, a tall, thin, middle-aged black […]
In another excerpt from the ABC interview, she who would be vice president engaged in more truth twisting and old fashioned political mendacity. Speaking with ABC’s Charles Gibson, the GOP vice presidential nominee emphatically insisted she had never denied humans’ role in driving climate changes across the globe.”Show me where I have ever said that […]
Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson writes that in his own way, Trig Palin, too has made history in this election year: Â In addition to Barack Obama making history as the first African American to be nominated for president and Sarah Palin taking her shotgun to the glass ceiling, there was a third civil rights […]
Perhaps its age or the daunting schedule. But Senator John McCain’s attempt to smear Barack Obama over the lipstick and pig comment blew back badly today. The media began playing excerpts of Arizona’s senior senator using that exact phrase in the exact context half a dozen times. And unfortunately for the 72 year old maverick. […]
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