Amazing: Obama Helped Stranded Stranger 20 Years Ago

October 6, 2008
The Norwegian newspaper VG has reported a truly amazing story about a newly-wed trying to get to Norway to be with her husband, and the stranger who helped pay an unexpected luggage surcharge. The blog “Leisha’s Random Thoughts” has translated the story.
It was 1988, and Mary Andersen was at the Miami airport checking [...]

AP: Palin’s Ayers Attack “Racially Tinged”

October 5, 2008
The Associated Press
Huffingtonpost.com
Douglass K. Daniel

WASHINGTON — By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is “palling around with terrorists” and doesn’t see the U.S. like other Americans, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin targeted key goals for a faltering campaign.
And though she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried [...]

Sarah Palin Should Bow Out

Chicago Tribune
Kathleen Parker
September 26, 2008
WASHINGTON
If at one time women were considered heretical for swimming upstream against feminist orthodoxy, they now face condemnation for swimming downstream — away from Sarah Palin.
To express reservations about her qualifications to be vice president — and possibly president — is to risk being labeled anti-woman.
Or, as I am guilty of [...]

McCain Campaign Say Palin Is Disastrous

Will Sarah Palin still be in the race a month from now or will she have imploded for incompetence?
It was only a matter of time before we would hear that John McCain’s campaign aides find out what they got in their so-called Alaska maverick, moose hunter, mother of five (or four) children. Most Americans already [...]

Sarah Palin’s Ex-Lover Revealed: Part II

Palin’s Ex-Boyfriend, Brad Hanson
 

 Will it ever end?  Not if the National Enquirer has anything to do with it.  This is the tabloid that outed Senator John Edwards and his mistress who had an out of wedlock child by him.  Sarah Palin’s lovers name is revealed, and one of the witnesses gave an affadavit and [...]

Sarah Palin’s Way of Governing-Hire Incompetent Friends

New York Times
September 17, 2008
Moo
By Timothy Egan
People should stop picking on vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin because she hired a high school classmate to oversee the state agriculture division, a woman who said she was qualified for the job because she liked cows when she was a kid. And they should lay off the governor for [...]

Suspend What Campaign?

John McCain tries to be slick. But he’s not slick enough to outwit Barack Obama and his large contingent of Chicago ward politicians who advise him. They’ve got McCain’s number because they are the origina slicksters.  Remember Mayor Richard Daley?  His son, who is now mayor, learned the tricks of the trade at his father’s [...]

This is Your Nation on White Privilege

September, 14 2008
By Tim Wise
For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.
White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of [...]