Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 at 9:34 am by Dillon MacRae
For anyone wondering how much more damage the current administration possibly could do in its final 100 days in office, the decider-in-chief has spoken. According to George W. Bush, he still has “lots of work to do” before riding off into the sunset in January — leaving behind a national debt surpassing $10 trillion.
Posted Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 11:34 am by Dillon MacRae
In the final weeks preceding every presidential election, the media drive the American electorate into extreme fits of either boredom or anxiety, depending on one’s level of engagement in the electoral process, by hopelessly obsessing over polls and a mysterious segment of voters that — it turns out — may barely even exist at all. Entire truck caravans laden with barrels of ink — and their present-day electronic equivalent — are devoted each election cycle to analyzing the thoughts, attitudes and leanings of the “undecided” voter.
Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 at 2:31 pm by Dillon MacRae
Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin repeatedly has attempted to brand Sen. Barack Obama as a terrorist sympathizer due to his casual professional acquaintance with William Ayers, a present-day college professor who in the turbulent 1960s had been a militant anti-war activist. Annenberg Political Fact Check found the McCain campaign’s assertions “groundless, false, dubious…seriously misleading.” Palin has downplayed her own highly questionable and more recent associations, at least one of which — unlike the Obama-Ayers link — raises legitimate concerns about where her true allegiance lies.
Posted Monday, October 6, 2008 at 2:51 pm by Dillon MacRae
After meriting a couple of momentary mentions during the primary season, the “Keating Five” scandal — the 1980s savings-and-loan debacle that Sen. John McCain once called the biggest mistake of his career — now has surfaced again in all its ugly glory. As global financial stability today teeters on the edge of collapse, those looking for reasons leading to the present meltdown should take a close look at the Republican presidential candidate’s regulatory philosophy over his quarter-century in Congress and his role in the infamous S&L scandal.
For anyone wondering how much more damage the current administration possibly could do in its final 100 days in office, the decider-in-chief has spoken. According to George W. Bush, he still has “lots of work to do” before riding off into the sunset in January — leaving behind a national debt surpassing $10 trillion. 
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