Well, lose might be too strong a word, but it was clear she was not going to win after just ten minutes. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama debated Tuesday night in Cleveland. This debate was coming off of the debate last week in Houston, which ended with fairly conciliatory comments, then the weekend after which had seen Hillary Clinton go into her ( Read more... )

Yes, another state of the union, and there was nothing great that happened and nothing great he put forward. He had no real bold visions for the future, but seemed to be visions of the past. Granted, they were visions of HIS version of the past, including his bringing up discredited "terrorist plots". He did mention all the key events of the past ( Read more... )

Here we are on the day before Bush's final State of the Union address (yes, tomorrow will be the great big recap of it all here on MidnightRanter). It is always interesting to see powerful people at the end of their time. Queen Elizabeth in her final days did her damndest to not appoint a successor while all those around her kept trying to ( Read more... )

President Bush is finishing up a six day tour of the middle East. He visited Saudi Arabia for the first time in his presidency, as well as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Egypt, Israel and Palestine. He brought his usual banter of being aware of Iran being Iran (which, these countries already knew that, but he had to say it but it also ( Read more... )

As many news outlets have been reporting, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was was assassinated Thursday evening (Pakistan local time) after a political rally in Rawalpindi, a city just to the south of the capital of Islamabad, and is the headquarters of the Pakistani army. It was also the site of the assassination of the first ( Read more... )

Sorry about the bad title, but the story is better and worse. A group of Jews sitting on the subway offered a "Happy Chanukkah" to some people, some youths overheard and beat and berated the man until a good Samaritan came to his aid. Of course, this being America and New York City to boot, there is a twist of twists. The people who were attacked ( Read more... )

CNN, in the ever growing attempt to market directly to Baby Boomer Americans, had a feature story on Adjustable Rate Mortgages rising in October. They had another banner story on the director of the hurricane center stepping down but had only a brief story about Arab flags flying in Israel for a truly historic peace summit between the Arab League ( Read more... )

Emblazoned on the CNN website was the word "Exclusive" on the next story, which is just a fancy way of saying that FoxNews wouldn't touch this story with a ten foot poll. One Iraq's newly elected representatives is, by a couple different accounts a terrorist. How much of this the Iraqi people knew when they were electing people is up for grabs. ( Read more... )

Yes, here we are again, the State of the Union but this is different from all the other years. Here, Bush is facing a hostile congress, poll numbers more like Nixon than Clinton and vice presidential aides looking to better deal against their superiors. It's not Bush's best week ever, but it is entertaining for those of us here in blogland. The ( Read more... )

At a debate about the nature of Islam, a young radical (not to be confused with a New Radical) Muslim declared "We drink the blood of our enemy" and declaring that Muslims everywhere are in a war against the West and Mohammed's message to non believers was "I come to slaughter all of you." If anyone can find the place in the Qu'ran where this is ( Read more... )