October 3, 2008
Barack Obama will be America’s next president. Back when McCain won the nomination of his party, and Obama his, I already declared that Obama would win. He was everything McCain was not: young, charismatic, great at giving speeches, and he had created a massive movement. So, my view was, McCai...
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After the Associated Press reported that Gwen Iffil failed to inform the Commission on Presidential Debates that she had authored a book about Senator Barack Obama, “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama,” which will be for sale on inauguration day 2009, John McCain la...
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Several political commentators and analysts talked about energy policy recently on PJTV - a new initiative of Pajamas Media, an important advertiser on PoliGazette. It was quite an interesting show, with Glenn Reynolds and others taking a closer look at the energy policy proposals of John McCain and...
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Europe’s response to Russia’s invasion of Georgia was very moderate. The U.S. called for political isolation, Nicholas Sarkozy went to Moscow as head of a European delegation. The U.S. wanted Russia to withdraw immediately, while Europe was satisfied with one or even two months later. Th...
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Lets play a nice game: who do you think will win tonight’s debate. Will it be Governor Sarah Palin or Senator Joe Biden? Or will it be a draw, much like how the debate between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama ended up in a draw? To me, anything could happen. I believe that either Gov. Pal...
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A week ago, PoliGazette reported that two police officers killed a naked man, who had lost his mind, when they tasered him. He fell off the building he was standing on, and died. This was a sad story, but it becomes even sadder. One of the officers responsible for the man’s death committed sui...
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Glenn Reynolds opines for Pajamas Media that conservatives and independents who worry about the bias of the so-called ‘elite media’ should counter those media by supporting more conservative outlets and / or by creating conservative outlets of their own. Although Reynolds’ solution...
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It was reported last Monday - it missed the radar thus far - that Barack Obama’s campaign received many millions of dollars from individuals who, as of yet, remain anonymous. Most of these individuals, it seems, live in foreign countries and… are unlikely to be American citizens. Rather,...
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For what could very well be the first time in history, Pakistani feminists and religious conservatives agree with each other: the way Prime Minister Asif Ali Zardari treated Sarah Palin - John McCain’s running mate - was unacceptable. When Zardari met Palin he told her she looked “gorgeo...
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Michael Jacques is one of the most truly evil men in the United States. He stands trial for drugging, sexually assaulting and killing his 12-year old niece, Brooke Bennett. Brooke was found dead one week after she disappeared in Vermont. Experts concluded she was killed by being smothered with a pla...
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