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October 9th, 2008

The Real John McCain

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email alerts. Thanks for visiting!Now that John McCain has run out of ideas, he is bringing up forgotten dirt on Obama to make a last-ditch effort to turn the election in his favor. With the days when the Dow drops [...]

October 6th, 2008

Keating Five Investigation - a political smear job?

The hypocrisy and flip-flopping of John McCain continues. The Keating Five investigation in 1989 was a major turning point in McCain’s political career. In fact, it even led to the redefinition of his career. Although he was cleared of impropriety, he was reprimanded by the Senate for poor judgment. McCain admitted his mistake and later [...]

October 2nd, 2008

Why the Bradley Effect might be dead

The Bradley Effect in U.S. politics is attributed to the inflated polling numbers for non-White candidates. The effect was brought to light in the 1982 California gubernatorial race when Tom Bradley lost the race in spite of being significantly ahead in voter polls. It is based on the assumption that voters inaccurately tell pollsters that [...]

September 28th, 2008

Fact - Putin rears his head over Alaska

Why is the liberal media bashing poor’ol Palin for seeing something that we mere mortals cannot? Katie Couric had the audacity to question one of the conservatives greatest hope on her foreign policy experience especially with respect to Russia. Check out the relevant transcript below:
Couric: You’ve cited Alaska’s proximity to Russia as part of [...]

September 23rd, 2008

Obama talks to Jed Bartlet

Maureen Dowd is writing some zinger op-eds these days. When I thought her last one ‘Barbies for War’ was absolutely brilliant, she delivers yet another masterpiece with a meeting between Barack Obama and the fictional President from The West Wing, Jed Bartlet. Since we are currently plowing through the seasons of West Wing, I can [...]

September 11th, 2008

The Seven Year Itch

Today it is exactly seven years since those terrifying attacks on the World Trade Center, NYC. Reams have been written in eulogies and copious amounts of tears have been shed for those that lost their lives on that day; some of whom ran in willingly to save others. The terrorist attack finally woke up the [...]

September 10th, 2008

Integrity and John McCain

When the country is experiencing a serious downturn in its economy, fighting two wars overseas and threatening a third one, people are losing jobs and healthcare, why is talk of pigs and lipstick dominating the news? I’ve always maintained that Sarah Palin’s selection tells us more about McCain than it does about her. After all, [...]

September 1st, 2008

The First Presidential Decision

Picking a vice president is often considered the first presidential decision of a Presidential nominee. When Obama picked Biden, even Republicans couldn’t find fault with that having known the credentials of the Senator. Interestingly, the guy who touted experience as an overarching qualification for the highest office in the land made the most dubious decision [...]

August 22nd, 2008

United States sets date on Iraqi withdrawal

“U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have agreed to the withdrawal of all U.S. combat forces from the country by the end of 2011, and Iraqi officials said they are “very close” to resolving the remaining issues blocking a final accord that governs the future American military presence here” [source].
This is big news and a major policy [...]

August 13th, 2008

Alicia Sacramone is hot?

Alicia Sacramone single-handedly doomed any chances for U.S. to win the women’s team gymnastics gold by making egregious errors in her routine. She fell off the balance beam and landed plonk on her bottom during the floor exercises. She looked visibly disconsolate and seemed to blame herself for her team’s loss. Unjustifiably so because the [...]

August 5th, 2008

Oprah’s Role in Obama’s Victory

Oprah’s endorsement garnered one million additional votes for Obama [PDF link]. Considering how close the primary election was, I guess Oprah would get a cabinet position (by logic of previous administrations) if Obama wins the White House [via].

August 1st, 2008

From my cold dead hands

If you needed any reason not to take your laptop along when you cross the border, this might be it. Civil liberties are seriously declining under the bogeyman of terror.

July 28th, 2008

Top Source of Oil to the U.S

Guess which country is the top exporter of oil to the United States. Nope, it is not in the Middle East and it isn’t unfriendly either. Incidentally, this source of oil is the worst environmentally-speaking.

July 24th, 2008

Pointing Out Realities

Another impressive Obama speech; this time in Berlin concluding his week-long foreign visit. However his speeches aren’t merely words, as his opponents would like us to believe. Those who bother to listen come away with the impression that this guy knows his stuff and admire his ability to put succinctly (and eloquently) facts that no [...]

July 21st, 2008

The Iraq/Pakistan Border

What is the best way to avoid threats from Iran? Pretend it doesn’t exist. Just like McCain does when he talks about the Iraq/Pakistan border. Or is he just having another Miss Teen North Carolina moment? This from a guy who claims oodles of foreign policy experience as reason enough to vote for him. FSM [...]

July 2nd, 2008

Being Aware of your Legal Rights via Television

Ash and I are self-professed Law & Order fans although the show is not aimed at our demographic group. Given the umpteen re-runs of the show, there is always a L&O playing during primetime on at least one cable channel (usually USA, TNT, or Bravo). Although originally made for NBC, the show now has original [...]

June 5th, 2008

The Presumptive Democratic Nominee

Finally after a 50-state primary, the Democrats have a presumptive nominee. Presumptive because the nomination will be endorsed only in the Democratic Convention in Denver in August. Heck, even previously ignored territories like Puerto Rico and Guam joined in the nomination party with cable news network actually paying attention to polling. Even though the networks [...]

June 3rd, 2008

Blame it on the Purple Money

When your economy is in trouble, blame the design of your currency. I can’t believe this moron blogs for the National Review.

May 27th, 2008

Recounting that November

This Sunday, we saw the made-for-TV movie, Recount on HBO. This docu-drama reflected on the events from the chaotic November of the 2000 Presidential Elections. Starring Kevin Spacey, Dennis Leary, Laura Dern among other individuals, this movie looked back at the mess following the election on November 7th right through the events until the U.S. [...]

May 23rd, 2008

Margin of Victory

Clinton’s continued presence in the Democratic Primary race coupled with Obama’s losses in the conservative states are giving pundits fresh ammo regarding the electability issue. Obama’s 41-point loss in West Virginia followed by a 35-point victory in Kentucky seemingly put in doubt Obama’s ability to win in November. Bill Kristol, the columnist added to bring [...]


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