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POPS. . . . 'Some guy in my neighborhood' As a reminder, Obama explicitly claims that he did not employ a ghost writer or a co-author in the composition of his memoir. The revelation that Ayers either helped write or simply wrote Dreams would not only expose Obama in a bald-faced, intellect-deflating lie; it would further refute his increasingly laughable assertion that the unrepentant terrorist is simply a "guy from the neighborhood." 'Some guy in my neighborhood' http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77938 Obama didn't write 'Dreams from My Father' http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77815 Nautical metaphors could sink Obama http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77940 Did Obama Write "Dreams from My Father" ... Or Did Ayers? http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTlkMTdmNDRkMTM1ODZkNGNkZmRiNDFjMDE4YzRjMjg=
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POPSChristoper Buckley Bows out of National Review by
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While I regret this development, I am not in mourning, for I no longer have any clear idea what, exactly, the modern conservative movement stands for. Eight years of “conservative” government has brought us a doubled national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to nowhere, poster boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance. As a sideshow, it brought us a truly obscene attempt at federal intervention in the Terry Schiavo case. So, to paraphrase a real conservative, Ronald Reagan: I haven’t left the Republican Party. It left me. Thanks, anyway, for the memories, and here’s to happier days and with any luck, a bit less fresh hell.
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POPSFour Great Companies on Sale You really have to wonder if all these finance mags and newspapers are just trying to convince people to buy in order to get things moving again. Likewise I suppose if things go bad they have no magazine. Some of the readers comments were interesting.
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POPS Obama’s Poems Show Real Talent .....example of the genre.” Of note, Politico observes that “the temperate legal language doesn't display the rhetorical heights that run through his memoir, published a few years later.” But then somehow, those few years later, this 33 year-old amateur with no paper trail beyond a hack legal note and a poem about fig-stomping apes produced what Time Magazine has called--with a straight face-- “the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician.” The public is asked to believe that Obama did this on his own, almost as though he were some sort of literary idiot savant. I don’t buy this canard for a minute. To enhance the science of this literary investigation, I made some inquiries into the academy. . .he encouraged me instead “to do what you're already doing . . . good old-fashioned literary detective work.” Given that advice, I dug deeper into the memoir of the man who, I believe, tortured Dreams From My Father . . .
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POPSestablished in the belief that our Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates should represent th This site was established in the belief that our Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates should represent the best that we can be. The United States, the home of the brave, of innovation, of invention should be run by candidates who exemplify our ideals, our potential, and yes, even our hopes. Our entire team is committed to having a fruitful and vivacious discussion about whether or not a Governor from Alaska, who before Labor Day Weekend 2008 was only associated with questionable ethics and moose hunting, is up to the task of running the free world. As a result, we've compiled all that we could get our hands on and find new things every hour. Seriously. Please go to our In The News to open the doors to Local, National & Internationl News. We would welcome your input...on both sides of the aisle.
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POPSGOP Strategists See Big Nov. Losses "If you turn the clock back two or two and half weeks, you could make a plausible argument that if a couple of things go our way we will lose three to four Senate races," an unnamed strategist told WaPo . "Now we will lose six to eight." Polling in most Senate races over the past 14 days has shown a five-point decline for the Republican candidate, the strategist said. The piece continues: The picture in the House is similar. The generic ballot test -- a traditional measure of broad voter attitudes -- has also moved decisively in Democrats' direction in recent days. The latest NBC-Wall Street Journal and Associated Press polls showed voters favoring a generic Democratic candidate for Congress over a generic Republican by 13 points, while a recent Time magazine poll gave Democrats a 46 percent to 36 percent edge. It's looking more and more like 2006 all over again.
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POPSIfill Under Scrutiny I found it interesting that World News Daily is mentioned as the source that broke this "story". Anyone not familiar with this particular web site will not be surprised that they have concerns about Ifill. The clip mentions that WND is a "right-leaning" Web site. That's like calling the Pope slightly religious. Admittedly, my only exposure to this site has been through articles by DeSousa (far right religious nut), I'd take anything they wrote with a pound of salt.
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POPSPalin Is Ready? Please. Fareed Zakaria has written a terrific article in this week's Newsweek Magazine that, in my opinion is a must read. I really have nothing to add to Mr. Zakaria's comments, other than to say, that John McCain has proven himself to be a cynical, misogynistic, and narcissistic personality, that has no business being president. I question at this point, whether he even has the chops to be a senator any longer. He has twisted his positions into pretzel shape since be began running for president. He has sold his own beliefs down the river, and embraced policies and people that were anathema to him prior to his candidacy. Naming Mrs. Palin as his running mate however, is the ultimate cynical act, and I pray the country will see this man for what he has become, and resoundingly reject him at the polls on November 4th.
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POPSHas Sarah Palin Been Picked as the Titular Head of the Coming Police State?
Reports confirmed my suspicions: Palin, not McCain, is the FrankenBarbie of the Rove-Cheney cabal. The strategy became clear. Time magazine reported that Rove is "dialed in" to the McCain campaign. Rove's protege Steve Schmidt is now campaign manager. And Politico reported that Rove was heavily involved in McCain's vice presidential selection. Finally a new report shows that there are dozens of Bush and Rove operatives surrounding Sarah Palin and orchestrating her every move. What's the plan? It is this. McCain doesn't matter. Reputable dermatologists are discussing the fact that in simply actuarial terms, John McCain has a virulent and life-threatening form of skin cancer. It is the elephant in the room, but we must discuss the health of the candidates: doctors put survival rates for someone his age at two to four years. I believe the Rove-Cheney cabal is using Sarah Palin as a stalking horse, an Evita figure, to put a popular, populist face on the coming police state and be the ta
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POPSJoshua Micah Marshall Marshall is a graduate of the Webb Schools of California and Princeton University and earned a Ph.D. in American history from Brown University. In the mid-1990s, Marshall designed websites for law firms and published an online news site about Internet law, which included interviews with prominent scholars such as Lawrence Lessig. Contents * 1 Early career * 2 Talking Points Memo o 2.1 Reaching a critical mass o 2.2 Launching TPM Media o 2.3 U.S. Attorney Scandal o 2.4 Future plans * 3 Miscellaneous work * 4 Family * 5 Prizes & Honors * 6 References * 7 External links
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POPSJames Nachtwey's TED Prize wish on 7 Continents Please do me a favor and watch this video. This man is remarkable and what he shares is eye opening. His TED Prize wish was: "Help me use the power of photography to break a story that the world needs to know about." The story breaks on October 3, when Nachtwey's powerful photographs of a growing world crisis will be published in Time magazine and shown on giant LED screens on all 7 continents -- from Times Square in New York to the British and Argentine bases on Antarctica.
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POPSTechnology Doesn’t Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Minds. Paul Saffo, the futurist, says he could divide the technology world into two kinds of people: engineers and natural scientists. He says the world outlook of the engineer is by nature optimistic. Every problem can be solved if you have the right tools and enough time and you pose the correct questions. Other people, who can be just as scientific, see the natural order of the world in terms of entropy, decline and death. Those people aren’t necessarily wrong. But the engineer’s point of view puts trust in human improvement. But over the course of human history, writing, printing, computing and Googling have only made it easier to think and communicate.
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