From Hillary Clinton. Kevin Sullivan has the clip and additional thoughts. I think that people should refrain from making ads like this. It’s not just negative, it’s fear mongering. Hillary should not have done this.
Mike Huckabee brought his low-budget campaign to College Station, Texas today and wowed an overflowing auditorium filled primarily with Texas A&M University college students with his populist conservative message. (more…)
Ali Eteraz explains why he’s not impressed by the Turkish effort to modernize the Hadith (or teachings of the Prophet Muhammed). I disagree with Ali, also because it seems to me that while the government is making the effort possible, it’s not like a government effort to tell people what to believe; more researches are sponsored / subsidized by the government. But it’s a good read nonetheless; Ali is one of the Internet’s most important Muslim writers, and he’s, always, thoughtful and reasonable.
The Turkish military has announced on its website that it has withdrawn all its troops from Iraq. According to the military, the decision to withdraw the troops wasn’t forced on the Turks by outside forces: they had simply accomplished their goals. According to Turkey, the threat the PKK posed to Turkish citizens has now been removed. (more…)
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Today on PoliGazette Radio (2PM ET): Rick Moran and I will talk to co-blogger Jason Steck about his support for Barack Obama. Is Obama a moderate or centrist? (more…)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfxIvd6x1dM[/youtube]
People really go insane over the environment, don’t they?
Meanwhile, some funeral providers are providing natural burials — the body is not embalmed or cremated, but instead buried in a simple casket or shroud in protected green space. (more…)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMpbpov-HcA[/youtube] (more…)
It seems that Adam Gadahn’s friends can give a little party: according to quite some people their buddy has been ‘martyred.’ Less sarcastic: the traitor Adam Gadahn – who put his entire family to shame – has received his punishment, at least according to a source of TJR. True or not? We’ll see.
Reason Magazine has all the goodies:
[Obama] campaign claims a million jobs have vanished because of the deal. That sounds devastating, but over the last 14 years, the American economy has added a net total of 25 million jobs—some of them, incidentally, attributable to expanded trade with Mexico. When NAFTA took effect in 1994, the unemployment rate was 6.7 percent. Today it’s 4.9 percent. (more…)
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