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Vanity Fair's Palin Piece Underscores Republican Split
By Emily MillerRepublican infighting over the recent trashing of Sarah Palin in Vanity Fair is bringing to the surface the long-bubbling conservative dislike of moderate "maverick" John McCain. Once McCain won the presidential nomination last year, most conservative Republicans supported him because he was better than the alternative, Barack Obama. Support on the right for McCain became more enthusiastic when he chose Sarah Palin -- a true conservative -- as his running mate. ...
How President McCain Might Have Handled Iran
By Matt LewisDays like today are one reason I supported the no-nonsense war hero John McCain over Barack Obama. After the presidential election in Iran was apparently stolen, thousands of protesters took to the streets. Instead of the United States boldly supporting the cause of liberty, and defending dissidents, President Obama meekly said, "It's not productive given the history of U.S.-Iranian relations to be seen as meddling." That -- of course -- was not a great moment in leadership. President John F. Kennedy did not say we would "bear any burden -- so long as we don't interfere." Nor can one ...
A 'Coup' by Iran's Rulers?
By Wesley Vaughn
On Friday, Iranians went to the polls to decide the fate of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. One day later, government officials announced the results: 62.6 percent of the vote for Ahmadinejad and 33.75 percent for the lead opposition candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi. The numbers were quickly disputed by Mousavi's supporters, who, according to an unidentified witness on CNN, "were mostly young 20-something men and women." Large protests such as the one seen here took place, and many others have occurred over the past few days.The government blocked text messaging, Facebook, and YouTube, but this ...
Sen. Chuck Grassley Files His Own Twitter Entries, Thank You Very Much
By Dylan and Ethan Ris
Politicians have a complex relationship with the social networking fad-of-the-moment, Twitter.On the one hand you have the tech-savvy younger generation, who have used the microblogging service to do everything from launch a gubernatorial campaign (Gavin Newsom) to declare their heterosexuality (Charlie Crist).On the other hand, you have a bumbling older generation who either has no idea what Twitter is (Jim Bunning) or suddenly remembers that they invented the whole technology and enlists a staffer to "tweet" for them (John McCain).This week, Capitol Hill daily newspaper The Hill made an ...
Meghan or Reagan - The Republican Choice?
By Caleb HoweEvery pundit, news anchor, talk show host, journalist, blogger, Twitterer, gad about town and dude in camouflage shorts sitting at a computer has, in the last few weeks, had something to say about the future of the Republican party. The loudest and most repeated message is that Republicans are not modern; we are not hip. Things have changed, and yes we (Republicans) can, nay must, change with them. The quieter message insists that Republicans have already wandered too far toward Obama, too far away from what made the party work before. The overall din is raucous. Are there to be purges, or big ...
Sarah Palin Joins Twitter
By David Knowles
Sarah Palin fans, start your tweeting! Your eagle has landed, and, as of this writing, she has left three Twitter updates. If you are scratching your head and wondering why Governor Palin has felt the need to join the micro-blogging craze, then you really haven't been paying close attention to the changing landscape of American politics. John McCain does it. Mike Huckabee does it. Man, anybody who wants to be the next somebody in politics is doing it. Seriously, Twitter is a networking tool. Like Facebook, MySpace and all the rest, Twitter is an ideal way for a politician to build and foster a ...
McCain Gets a Primary Challenge (But Don't Count on McCain Losing)...
By Matt Lewis
Senator John McCain -- who not long ago was the GOP standard bearer -- has drawn a challenge from Minuteman founder Chris Simcox. The Minutemen, of course, are an organization devoted to making sure illegal immigrants do not cross the border.As CNN reported, Simcox said:"John McCain has failed miserably in his duty to secure this nation's borders and protect the people of Arizona from the escalating violence and lawlessness," Simcox said in a statement. "He has fought real efforts over the years at every turn, opting to hold our nation's border security hostage to his amnesty schemes."Of ...
Gavin Newsom Running for Governor of Facebook
By Dylan and Ethan Ris
As Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom is highly attuned to the latest technology trends. For instance, were it not for the advent of blogging, Newsom's brazen affair with his aide's wife might not have blossomed into the national sensation it quickly became.Well now Newsom is clued into the hippest trend on the interwebs: Facebook. He's also into the trend of running for governor, and now he's figured out a combination of the two in that most tech-savvy of ways...Taking out a Facebook ad for his gubernatorial campaign!Clicking on one of the links (we cast a write-in vote for "tech ...
McCain Hosts Gala for 'Human Cockfighter'
By Dylan and Ethan Ris
It's funny how perceptions erode with time. See back in 1998, grumpy old Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) decried the eminently classy Ultimate Fighting Championship as "human cockfighting." Needless to say, this comparison was way off. While it is true that both "sports" occur in cages and involve copious quantities of blood, everyone knows that cockfighting roosters are expressly forbidden from using the "ground and pound."Now flash forward to March 18, 2009, when the Armed Forces Foundation hosted a congressional gala to honor (among others) the chief human cockfighter himself, UFC president Dana ...
Obama Administration Could Support Health Benefits Tax
By Mark Impomeni
Some Republicans might be forgiven if they thought Sen. John McCain had been elected president, given the latest revelations from the Obama Administration. First, President Obama abruptly reversed course on Friday from talking down the U.S. economy to expressing presidential confidence in the economy's fundamentals. Echoing comments he ridiculed when Sen. McCain made them, the president said that the economy was fundamentally "sound." Now, in the Administration's second embrace of a McCain position in a week, the White House is indicating that it would be open to a plan to tax health benefits ...
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