by Steven Leser
The latest in embarrassing episodes about to explode on the McCain campaign is that the person he is criticizing Obama for associating with is someone McCain funded to the tune of half a million dollars through a group that he chaired. The Huffington Post broke the story, “McCain Funded Work Of Palestinian His [...]

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by Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers
As I write this, things are looking good for an Obama victory, perhaps one of huge proportions. But well aware of the GOP’s history of massive voter-suppression and voter intimidation (examples of which are in the news each day**), and the below-the-radar vote-counting manipulations, and quite cognizant of the [...]

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by Dave McGill
The financial markets are locked in a historic battle between fear and greed.  Fear has been winning out lately but, today, greed definitely took over as the Dow Jones Industrial Average shot up 889 points.
If history is any indication, investors should be praying that the recession has actually begun, as many think it [...]

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by Dave McGill
A tense relationship with Syria got a little chillier at about 4:45 AM this morning when American troops in four helicopters violated Syrian airspace by swooping into a village eight kilometers from the Iraqi border and attacking a building under construction.
In the process, according to Agence France Press, eight civilian workmen were killed [...]

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by Dave McGill
There is one, single, pivotal, economic issue that will be decided in 11 days. It isn’t healthcare, unemployment or taxes yet, in a sense, it is all of those and more.
McCain has brought the issue to the surface and he and Palin have been hammering away at it for several days. In the [...]

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