I’m Home

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You always hear of those horror stories where passengers are trapped on a plane parked on the tarmac for hours on end.   Well, I was lucky.   That was the road…

Elite? you decide

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NEWSWEEK looked into the candidates' cars. And based on public vehicle-registration records, here's the score. John and Cindy McCain: 13. Barack and Michelle Obama: one.

Camp Obama Comes to Delaware

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I was talking to a NJ Dem Party official a few weeks ago and she told me that the recent one of these held in NJ drew more than 200 people from all over South Jersey. And that this event was not only inspiring, but damned fun. I’m posting the entire invitation below the jump, but this is really an incredible opportunity to get some of the best organizing training in the business — training that would be useful for all of us looking to get more involved in working for more and better Democrats at the local level. And it is just fantastic that this opportunity is coming to Delaware.

Leadership

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Obama is talking about addressing the issues (with his financial team in attendance) and urging some bipartisanship, while McCain is whining and contributing to his epic flail. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmfeesYmx1Y&eurl=http://www.jedreport.com/[/youtube] This is…

Not your Liberal Media

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Wick Allison, a conservative with National Review street cred, speaks the truth about his party.

But today it is so-called conservatives who are cemented to political programs when they clearly don’t work. The Bush tax cuts—a solution for which there was no real problem and which he refused to end even when the nation went to war—led to huge deficit spending and a $3 trillion growth in the federal debt. Facing this, John McCain pumps his “conservative” credentials by proposing even bigger tax cuts. Meanwhile, a movement that once fought for limited government has presided over the greatest growth of government in our history. That is not conservatism; it is profligacy using conservatism as a mask.