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We noted earlier this week that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) had purchased $39,000 worth of airtime for this ad promoting 11th District Democratic congressional candidate Debbie Halvorson. The Swing State Project is now reporting that the DCCC is also spending $20,000 on direct mail in [...]
In an un-bylined article, the Journal Star reported on parent company GateHouse Media’s 2nd quarter statement and conference call. It’s the first coverage the PJS has given the company since the company’s stock prices fell below $1.
The article stated that GateHouse was suspending dividend payments and was going to [...]
ABC's "Nightline" will have the story; for print version of the ABC story, check out this report from Rhonda Schwartz and Brian Ross.
Joint statement from Elizabeth and John Edwards expected Friday.
National Enquirer broke story about Edwards affair in October, confronting Edwards at a hotel in Beverly Hills in the [...]
As I posted entries for my previous travel series, My Kansas Kronikles, as well as for this series, I received complimentary e-mails from local and state officials thanking me for my efforts.
Just as beach goers arrived for the start of a great weekend with beautiful skies overhead, lifeguards raised the red flag signaling the close of Montrose & Wilson beach fronts due to high e-coli counts. The “swim ban” started at 9:45 a.m. Friday so be sure [...]
by James Oliphant
ABC News is reporting that former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has admitted having an extramarital affair with a former campaign staffer, but Edwards denies being the father of her child.
This has been, of course, a story that has been simmering in the blogosphere and in [...]
by Katie Fretland
The McCain campaign launched a new television ad today criticizing Obama's voting record on taxes and portraying him as a celebrity distanced from the concerns of the average American.
The ad opens with cheering fans, flashing cameras and Obama's photo splashed across magazine covers.
"Life in the spotlight [...]
Rep. Chuck Jefferson, D-Rockford, set out to help people.
He sponsored a bill requiring health insurance policies to continue providing coverage to dependent, full-time college students who must leave school or reduce their classload to part-time because of a catastrophic illness or injury. His fellow lawmakers approved that plan [...]
Evangelicals would like McCain to pick someone like Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for veep. (AP/Brian Wallace)
by James Oliphant
Richard Land, the evangelical leader who earlier this week called Barack Obama "a first-class arsonist" in describing Obama's views on abortion, had some strong words for John [...]
John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an extra-marital affair with a novice film-maker, the former Senator admitted to ABC News today.
In an interview for broadcast tonight on Nightline, Edwards told ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff he did have an affair with 42-year old [...]
by Mark Silva
What's in a word?
When the White House reported that President Bush had closed his encouraging words for the U.S. Olympic team with: "So I guess all I've got to say is, go forth, give it all you've got,'' one could summon up an image of [...]
by Frank James
Earlier this week it was David Brooks in the New York Times's pages who dismissed the importance of skin color, and all the baggage that comes with, in the closeness of the presidential contest.
Today it's Michael Gerson, President Bush's former speech writer, now a [...]
A heated debate this week on another book == Obama Nation -- between the book's author Jerome Corsi and Democratic strategist Bob Beckel . . . the topic of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act and Obama's vote in the Illinois Senate comes up . . .
Liberal defense rule [...]
Buckle your seatbelt. Make sure your nausea bag is at the ready. Because the slimiest accusation yet aimed at Barack Obama is on the verge of having its moment in the mainstream media.
Within certain fringe elements of the anti-abortion right, it's been an article of faith for some [...]
UPDATE 1x: In case you didn’t know — which we figured these guys knew what they were doing when they sent this out — the joke is on the IR Editor on this post. I trusted the sources and wanted to do them a favor [...]
Dear Friend,
As you may recall, I was privileged to play a role in helping prevent John Kerry from being elected president when my fellow Swift Boat Veterans and I released the book Unfit for Command. As liberal as Kerry was, America faces an even more liberal threat [...]
