Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Cigarette seller in Tehran [kamshots / Flickr]
The US currently exports over ten times more to Iran than at the start of the Bush administration. At the top of the pile: cigarettes. Somewhat suprising, no? John McCain seemed to think so last week when he responded by saying, "Maybe that's a ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Last week, Jesse Jackson said he'd like to "cut [Obama's] nuts off" for "talking down to black people" in speeches about moral responsibility. Unfortunately he said it into a hot microphone at Fox News.
Mmby2k is a 27-year-old single mom in Alabama who thinks Jackson is a hater -- possibly because ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Foot in mouth [g-hat / Flickr]
So Charlie Black, political advisor to McCain, recently said, rather impolitically, that a terror attack in the US would boost McCain in the campaign. This isn't a reaction roundup; just two snippets.
Damian J. Penny, blogging from Halifax, Nova Scotia, questions whether there's any logic to ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Billionaires' Row in CA: where it all went down
[zombietime]
Barack Obama's remarks in CA about small-town bitterness are in their umpteenth news cycle. It's hard to know how they'll affect next Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary. One recent poll shows Obama plummeting in PA; another shows him holding steady nationally.
The blogosphere, of course, ...
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