The short version of Patrick Healy's piece: Every criticism a Republican makes against Obama, from saying he's "not one of us" to his relationship to Bill Ayers, is racially questionable.
Obama played the race card this summer when he told [...]
Paul Krugman has won the Nobel Prize in economics. In the 1980s and early 1990s, I read plenty of what Krugman had to say about economics. It struck me as first-rate. In fact, Krugman's reputation as an exceptional economist is what caused me to read him in the first place. [...]
Where? Cathedral of St. Paul!
When? Tonight!
Anything else we need to know? Yes: 12, count 'em, 12 HARPS!
Okay, so you can't be there because it's just a rehearsal but you can be there on Friday at 8 p.m. Â I seriously don't [...]
Ed Matthews, the GOP endorsed candidate for Congress in the 4th CD, told me something rather amazing today: Congresswoman Betty McCollum refused to participate in tonight’s debate (the only scheduled debate) if it was broadcast on KSTP.
According to Matthews, her objection wasn’t to KSTP, but rather to having the [...]
"We have cut spending."That quote is completely in context.
It sure seems that way in Northern Virginia. I must have viewed, or switched away from, at least 50 Obama television ads since I saw the last ad for McCain. I can't even remember the last time I saw a pro-McCain ad.
This may not be the case in other Virginia [...]
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Minnesotans for Employee Freedom invited Al Franken and/or DFL Party Chairman Brian Melendez to room 125 of the State Capitol to debate the so-called Employee Free Choice Act. As of 1:08 p.m., neither Franken nor Melendez have shown up for the debate. I’m at the event [...]
Glenn Reynolds has a letter from a Republican who isn’t about to give an Obama Administration the benefit of the doubt on anything:
I consider myself a libertarian/conservative. Like many people of that bent, I was uncomfortable with Bush when he was nominated. But Al Gore’s increasingly-erratic behavior during the [...]
Apparently, God has a reputation problem and needs our prayers…
“There are millions of people around this world praying to their god — whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah — that his [McCain’s] opponent wins, for a variety of reasons,” said Arnold Conrad, former pastor of Grave Evangelical Free Church. “And Lord, [...]
House candidates in districts 43A and 43B will discuss business-related issues at a forum sponsored by the TwinWest Chamber of Commerce on October 23, from 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm. There will be questions from the chamber and the audience, and opening and closing statements [...] 
Team Franken’s embedded blogger at MN Publius, Aaron Landry, tried to ambush Senator Coleman on MPR today with two loaded questions, one of which Senator Coleman has answered. The best part was that Landry tried to force Coleman to answer his loaded questions with only yes [...]
I saw a note on campus for a film sponsored by a student group I had never heard of before.
AniMent Action on Campus - AAC
Welcome to AAC! We are here to work for equal rights of animals, and support environmental issues. We will be actively involved in the community [...]
In the New York Post, Stanley Kurtz looks for the origins of the current financial crisis and finds them in the activities of ACORN, and Barack Obama, dating back to the mid-1990s:
FOR years, ACORN had combined manipulation of the CRA with intimidation-protest tactics to force banks to lower credit [...]
“Steven Schier, a political science professor at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., said Sarvi’s chances of upsetting Kline don’t look good.
‘It’s a conservative district, and Kline is reasonably popular,’ Schier said. ‘Even in the best conditions, you’ve got to have resources (to challenge Kline), and Sarvi doesn’t seem to have [...]
Last week NRO editor Kathryn Lopez asked me whether Norm Coleman could pull out his race for reelection against the former humorist Al Franken. Yesterday I met with Coleman campaign manager Cullen Sheehan to try to get the story on Senator Coleman's decision to take down all negative advertising on [...]
