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Big bucks after bailout

Posted October 08, 2008 WASHINGTON — A week after the federal government threw an $85 billion lifeline to insurance giant AIG, the company sent about 70 of its top performers to the St. Regis Resort...

McCain Advised Ultra-Right Group Tied to Death Squads

Background Information on the United States Council for World Freedom and the World Anti-Communist League In the mid-1980s, Senator John McCain, was on the Advisory Board of the United States...

I'm a little confused

I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight..... If you grow up in Hawaii, are raised by your grandparents, you're 'exotic' and 'different.' If you grow up in Alaska eating...

WSJ Looks At McCain’s Plans To Cut Medicaid/Medicare Benefits

At this late in the game, revealing something like this could really hurt McCain’s support among the elderly. Because it plays directly into Obama’s message that McCain’s plans would leave people...

Keating 5 ring a bell?

McCain's past collides with the present Wall Street debacle. By Rosa Brooks Once upon a time, a politician took campaign contributions and favors from a friendly constituent who happened to run a...

Bail-out leads to conflict of interest claims as Wall Street financiers cash in on crisis

New questions have been raised about the $700 billion economic bail-out of the US economy as President George W. Bush warned that the world may have to wait weeks for the benefits of the rescue...

Ted Sampley's CHALLENGE to McCain

Ted Sampley, a Vietnam Veteran and former Green Beret, issued a CHALLENGE to John McCain "If you can show us that the information presented in our mailer is untruthful . . . we will Stand...

Tax Earmarks, Pork and Other Bailout Bill Horrors

by Ross Kaminsky 10/02/2008 If you were wondering how the Bush/Paulson financial bailout bill slipped past the Senate last night, the answer is all too familiar: too many senators signed onto this...

McCain Pulls Out of Michigan

By Michael D. Shear and Jon Cohen Sen. John McCain has decided to pull his campaign out of Michigan, deeming it a lost cause after internal polls showed the Republican trailing badly in the...

Sarah Palin Song Moose Shootin' Blues

The Ballad of Sarah Palin

About Sarah Palin: A Letter From Anne Kilkenny

What follows is an open letter written by a resident of Wasilla, Alaska named Anne Kilkenny. I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992. Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is...

Wasilla, Alaska, gadfly goes viral

Anne Kilkenny attended Wasilla City Council meetings and got to know Sarah Palin. Anne Kilkenny's e-mail criticizing Sarah Palin was supposed to help inform 40 of her friends. More than 13,700...

Chris Rock on Clinton, Obama, McCain and Palin

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House rejects bailout plan 228-205

The vote was 205 for and 228 against. The Dow falls about 500 points on the news. By Richard Simon and James Gerstenzang, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers 11:50 AM PDT, September 29, 2008 WASHINGTON...

McCain and the POW Cover-up

The "war hero" candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute. This is an expanded version, with primary...

Tina Fey does Palin

McCain camp prays for Palin wedding

The marriage of the vice-presidential candidate’s pregnant teenage daughter could lift a flagging campaign*Sarah Baxter in Washington *In an election campaign notable for its surprises, Sarah Palin,...

Some on the right are joining a chorus of criticism over Sarah Palin

John McCain's running mate and his sharp reactions to the nation's economic crisis have led several prominent conservative columnists to slam the senator as reckless and strident. By James Rainey,...