some guy in lebanon

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I know this is a story that is about 48 hours late, but I’m saddened at how quickly its left the airways, so I’m publishing it anyways.
The story amazes me. A Texan woman, campaigning for McCain in Pittsburgh, went to the police late last week, claiming that while being mugged by a 6′4” black man, [...]

If every American could watch this video, this would be a very different country. A very different country indeed. Thank you Dr. Brzezinski for talking some bloody sense into those idiots on the television. Why can’t we vote for HIM for President?
If you cannot see the video, (like if you’re receiving this in an e-mail), [...]

In this little clip, morons (the kind that REALLY give conservatives a bad name) give away bumper-stickers with the words “Obama for Change.” The “C” in change is an Islamic Crescent. The “g” in Change is a Soviet Hammer and Sickle.
Fun.
Ok, I get the socialist thing. Obviously Obama’s plan to tax richer people so that [...]

“In this economy, racism is officially a luxury. How is John McCain going to win if he can’t win those voters? -

FiveThirtyEight.com has an amazing story out of Western Pennsylvania. A polster, traveling block by block attempting to learn more about working-class America’s election leanings reports:
“A canvasser goes to a woman’s door in Washington, Pennsylvania. [...]

Tomorrow I will be writing part 3 of a series I am writing, “The American Diaspora.” So far:

The Coming American Diaspora
The American Diaspora, Part 2: The Economic Consequences of the Bailout

In the meantime, the always informed Christopher Sheeron recently shared this interesting article from the Wall Street Journal (it seems the youth are the only [...]

From the Associated Press today, an article chronicling Alaskan Governor and Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s ethics violations:
Some examples:
She attacked political opponents for giving oil companies and other businesses too much control of state government, while simultaneously appointing the founder of an engineering firm that received $6.8 million in state business as head of [...]

To begin what is really an extended diatribe, consider this quote from Nathan Gardels’ interview with George Soros on Friday:

U.S. influence will wane. It has already declined. For the past 25 years, we have been running a constant current account deficit. The Chinese and the oil-producing countries have been running a surplus. We have consumed [...]

Daily Star’s Nick Kimbrell Reports on the state of the Lebanese economy, given the current global economic volitility:

BEIRUT: The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) senior resident representative to Lebanon praised the country’s central bank late Tuesday, saying the banking sector had few direct links to the current financial crisis and that Lebanon would likely prove more [...]

David Talbot reports on this wonderful little story about a certain Vice Presidential candidate and a certain candidate’s husband who belonged for quite some time to a rabidly anti-American secessionist party in a certain backwater state known as Alaska.
The Alaskan Independence Party’s famous founder, who apparently was killed in a plastic-explosive incident, stated that:
“My government [...]

If you are planning on voting this November, and you suspect that you will be voting with an electronic voting machine, you must download and read this report on their vulnerabilities. It’s 86 pages long, so if youd like an overview, read this is from the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office:
STUDY: VOTING SYSTEMS VULNERABLE
COLUMBUS, Ohio [...]