Archive for August 12th, 2008
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
The concern about the “Fairness Doctrine” has centered on the effect it will have on talk radio. No one thought it would effect web sites or blogs. Well, think again. According to FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell, the Fairness Doctrine (or whatever they decide to re-name it) and “the net neutrality effort could win the support [...]
Tags: Fairness Doctrine, Net neutrality
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
by Devil’s Advocate
The Democratic National Committee, like Moveon.org, is seeking to woo its base of economic illiterates with a new John McCain attack ad. This new advertisement portrays John McCain as “Exxon John,” who is in bed with Big Oil. It also blames the price of oil on the Oil companies themselves. Arguments like these [...]
Tags: Energy
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Taking time from his gold while on vacation in Hawaii, Barack Obama spake unto the media, and the Russians and Georgians heard his eloquence and repented of their sins:
I reiterate my call for Russia to stop its bombing campaign, to stop flights of Russian aircraft in Georgian airspace, and to withdraw its ground forces from [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, cease-fire, crisis, Georgia, Medvedev, Russia, Tim Kaine, war
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Observation: Zero
A Mom’s Viewpoint: Barack Obama…now he’s a thinker!
Notoriously Conservative: George Cloony Give’s Obama Foreign Policy Advice
TexasFred’s: Georgia claims Russians have cut country in half
Maggie’s Notebook: Reporters Covering Edwards Find Scandal Treasures Archived
Gunservatively! Dubya’s Symbolic Pressure
A McCain Democrat’s Journal: Will Obama’s “Socialist Chic” Sell In The South?
Monkey in the Middle: Nissan orders Israeli ally to [...]
Tags: Favorite Links, news, Politics
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Vladimir Putin - who is most likely as much in control of Russia as he ever was - has said that the collapse of the U.S.S.R. ranks as “the greatest political catastrophe in history” and claimed that its reintegration was a matter of “historical destiny.” And he has been working for years toward reunifying and [...]
Tags: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, appeasement, Georgia, Hitler, Iran, Islam, Israel, Nuclear, objective values, Postmodernism, Russia, truth, United States, Vladimir Putin
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Barack Obama has frequently been called - in both praise and derision, a political “messiah.” And we are beginning to see that he is in fact the second coming … of Jimmy Carter.
Tags: alternative energy, Barack Obama, big oil, coal, commonsense plan, conservation, drilling, Energy, Energy Policy, Ethanol, jimmy carter, Pelosi, subsidize, Windfall Profits Tax
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