Per Glenn Greenwald in Salon:Somehow, in Sarah Palin's brain, it's a threat to the First Amendment when newspapers criticize her negative attacks on Barack Obama. This is actually so dumb that it hurts:In a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin said she ( Read more... )

The GOP Ticket's appalling contempt for knowledge and learning
By Christopher Hitchens[...] This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and ( Read more... )

Skinheads 'planned to kill Obama'Two men have appeared in a US court accused of making threats to kill Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, federal agents say.They were also charged with possessing an unregistered firearm and conspiracy to steal from a licensed gun dealer ( Read more... )

Larry David: Waiting for Nov. 4th
[...] This is like waiting for the results of a biopsy. Actually, it's worse. Biopsies only take a few days, maybe a week at the most, and if the biopsy comes back positive, there's still a potential cure. With this, there's no cure. The result is final. Like death.

Five times a day I'll still say to someone, "I ( Read more... )

The Chronicle endorses Barack Obama for president and Joe Biden for vice president of the United StatesAfter carefully observing the Democratic and Republican nominees in drawn-out primary struggles as well as in the general campaign, including three debates, the Chronicle strongly believes that the ticket of Sens. Barack Obama and Joe Biden offers ( Read more... )

( Colin Powell endorses Barack Obama. See the video. )

Adventuring Party Politics: The Campaign is Getting UglyGM:  OK, the bugbear attacks you.  What do you do?

OBAMA: I send one of my 672 henchmen after it.

MCCAIN:  OK, seriously.  Why does he have so many henchmen?  I'm a level 72 ranger and he's only a level 8 paladin.

OBAMA:  Well, if you'd bought the Grassroots Organizing and Oratory/Colgate ( Read more... )

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Dan Drezner Cuts To The Chase[...] Sarah Palin is the distilled essence of wingnut. She has it all. She is dishonest. She is a religious nut. She is incurious. She is anti-science. She is inexperienced. She abuses her authority. She hides behind executive privilege. She is a big spender. She works from the gut and places a greater value on instinct ( Read more... )