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taqiyya Barack Hussein Obama:
On this fundamental issue [of "choice"] I will not yield… It is time to turn the page. We want a new day here in America. We are tired of arguing about the same old stuff… The first thing I would do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act [a measure [...]

And ad and a slogan.
A sky-rocketing homicide rate ,  a sewer of corruption  that stands as an inspiration to grafters and mob guys everywhere, a state government trying hard to follow suite,  deteriorating city services  and  a failing school system.
Are we missing anything?
Yes!
One of the most stressful cities in the entire [...]

Taqiyya: An Islamic principle, mostly among the Shi’a, that allows a believer to hide one’s true beliefs in certain circumstances from non-believers.
Hmm, makes one think about those rumours floating about certain candidate.

On my mobile I subscribe to a third-party application from California called youmail.com to answer my calls when I can’t. They will send the voice-message of the caller and a transcription of the caller’s message to my e-mail. The transcription is always goofy I presume because the caller doesn’t speak clearly for the computer. My [...]

Jeffrey Sachs is a development economist and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University wrote in the Financal Times:
We have arrived in a multi-polar world. As German Finance Minister Peer Steinbruck put it in Berlin yesterday, “The US will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system.” Yet a multi-polar world [...]

Instapundit had this quote on his site a couple of days ago:
UPDATE: Barry Dauphin thinks it’s psychological: “One thing I have noticed. No matter who McCain is up against (be it Republicans or Democrats), he has an uncanny ability to get under the skin of his opponents. Most of his opponents become virtually apoplectic at [...]

Like every conservative I speak of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy with tongue dripped in sarcasm.   Here are the Dems shaking in their boots over those nasty right wingers, while the nasty right wingers are bashing each other over the head over whether or not Edmund Burke was a “crunchy conservative” (he wasn’t.)   The reason [...]

In what should have been a out-partys' year historically, the Financial Times reported congressional Democratics fear Obama may screw up their chances to gain seats and perhaps to retain the '06 electoral gains. After all, the Obama ticket is warmed-over '72 McGovernism. Although McGovern promised $1k to every man, woman, and child causing actor [...]

Much of the substance of this election comes down to this question:
“do we want people with values like those held by the leadership of the American Library Association - in general - and Judith Flint and Amy Grasmick - in particular - to be in control of this country and guiding its [...]

Congratulations, Governor Sarah Palin. Thank you, Senator John McCain for uniting our party. Onward to victory.

The Democrats are attacking Gov. Palin for her lack of experience.  Really have these people no shame.   Our political novice will cut her teeth as Veep, their political novice will cut his teeth on the nuclear football.

Well before the climatic moments of the Democratic convention, it was clear that something vital was missing from the Republican campaign
…the nature and extent of Sen Obama’s left-wing agenda doesn’t seem to have penetrated into the awareness of the American public…They just don’t associate him, the “Progressive” movement and the Democratic party [...]