Thursday, September 18, 2008
Perhaps the best political ad ever created:
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a top fundraiser for Hillary Clinton and a member of the Democratic Party’s Platform Committee, announced today that she was throwing her support behind Republican John McCain. Lady de Rothschild has been a long time and devoted supporter of Clinton (saying about Hillary’s run for the presidency “I’ve been waiting […]
Thursday, September 18, 2008
“This weekend, Karl Rove said John McCain’s attack ads have gone too far. When Karl Rove says you’ve gone too far, that’s like Mel Gibson saying you’ve had too much to drink.” -Craig Ferguson “Republican strategist Karl Rove recently gave an interview, and he said John McCain’s attack ads go too far and aren’t truthful. […]
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
“This week, the presidential race continued to tighten up. In fact, according to the latest polls, John McCain is now only six points behind Sarah Palin.” -Amy Poehler “The Washington Post reported this week that Sarah Palin billed taxpayers in Alaska for travel expenses for 312 nights she spent in her own home. You know, […]
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Greg Mankiw teaches the famous Economics 10 introductory course at Harvard and on Monday he wrote the following blog entry: Today is the first day of Harvard’s academic year, and the first day of a new year of ec 10. I will give the introductory lecture at noon. I would like to thank all my […]
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
The Bush administration claims that it is for the free market and privatization, so how are they going to explain that they just nationalized the nation’s largest insurance company, AIG? Even though they said they would not bail out the sinking company, they just used $85 Billion of the taxpayer’s money to buy 80% of […]
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
CNN Fact Checks McCain and concludes that he’s lying: Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post notices that even after Palin admits that she stretched the truth, she repeats the very same lie again: Palin claims she told Congress “Thanks, but no thanks to the Bridge to Nowhere”. A quick check of her record shows that […]
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Abner Linwood Holton, Jr. is a Republican. In fact, in 1970 he was the first Republican elected Governor of the state of Virginia in almost 100 years (since Reconstruction), and is widely regarded as the “father of the Republican party in Virginia”. Some of you may recall that the Republican resurgence in the South during […]
Monday, September 15, 2008
Is the presidential campaign becoming long and frustrating to you? I find it helps to just stare at this photo for a few minutes: © Michael David Murphy
