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From RedState: It’s Palin
FoxNews: McCain Picks Palin
CNN: McCain picks Alaska Gov. Palin as running mate

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I don’t mean to gang up on Illinois Reason, but I just can’t swallow this argument:
…What happens when one side of the political spectrum, through fetid ranting over the course of a great many years, foments rage and anger and promotes and even glorifies violence in order to ‘pump up their base of voters’?
Idiots try [...]

Several people have pointed out the hypocrisy of Michael (and Lisa) Madigan and Emil Jones playing important roles in the DNC convention, which is supposed to be about “Hope” and “Change” rather than cynicism and nepotism.

If Obama becomes the next president of the United States, there will be a vacancy in the Senate. None other than Rod Blagojevich will have to pick a temporary replacement. The question is would he, could he appoint himself to the US Senate? Woud he? of course he would. But could he? I’m not so [...]

Now for something completely serious. A buddy of mine came up with a list of anagrams of Obama-Biden.

A Bad Men Bio or Bad Men: A Bio (couldn’t write a better bio myself)
Bemoan A Bid (a presidential bid that is)
I Bemoan Bad (as do we all)
Be On Bad Aim (and this one hits the spot)
An Idea [...]

Watching the Democratic National Convention last night was a chore. Three hours of uninterrupted campaign commercial, with the occasional interesting moment. Occasional is the operative word. Lucky for us, we came up with a great new drinking game. It’s called Hope & Chug. Here’s how it works:
The game requires players to drink every time a [...]

I know I’ve posted on this before … on several occaisions really. But I’ve noticed recently the Obama Campaign has been really pounding the “McCain is going negative” mantra. Now we even have polls surfacing about who is “running a negative campaign” and they clearly indicate McCain is perceived to be the negative one. Ok. [...]

John Kass writes this morning about the UIC Library’s refusal to release papers related to the Annenberg Challenge:
First the librarians told Kurtz yes, come look. But by the time Kurtz landed in Chicago, the librarians changed their minds. The donor of the documents hadn’t cleared his research. Perhaps they’ll let him look at the documents [...]

The media has been abuzz about McCain’s surge in the polls, or rather, Obama’s sag. I’m sure it is mostly to do with McCain’s presence at Rick Warren’s forum. Or the crisis in Georgia. But I can’t help thinking that just a small part of it could be that the All Obama Network, also known [...]