The latest Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll shows that Sen. John McCain continues to close the gap with Sen. Barack Obama. According to the poll released Saturday, Obama now has a 5-point lead.

Important is that he polled below 50%, namely 49.1%. Most experts believe that Obama has to poll constantly above 50% if he wants to win by as much as some commentators expect. If not, said experts have said in recent weeks, it could be much closer on election day than the ‘mainstream media’ have told us. (more…)

The controversy surrounding the tape that’s in the LA Times’ possession (which they should release), where Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama toasts Khalidi at a going away party before Khalidi left to become a professor at Colombia University, has been reported here at Poligazette.

However, Republican presidential candidate has his own connection to the pro-Palestinian Khalidi.  Namely: McCain is the chair of an institution that gave money to an organization set up by Khalidi.

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Libya paid victims (and their family members) $1.5 billion in recent weeks as compensation for their suffering. This opens the door to a considerable improvement in Libyan-American relations, which Libya has wanted for years.

The U.S. will now be able to invest big time in Libya, which is an oil rich country, and ends Libya’s legal liabilities in U.S. terrorism cases. (more…)

The main way for Barack Obama to win in a ‘landslide’ coming Tuesday is by demoralizing supporters of John McCain. The process of demoralization started immediately after Obama secured the Democratic nomination. Republicans were told that an Obama victory was inevitable, by both the Obama campaign and its allies in the media.

This process went on for months, and has proven to be quite successful. (more…)

The British newspaper the Daily Telegraph reported Saturday that Britain’s top commander in Afghanistan resigned this week out of anger and frustration with his government’s unwillingness to provide British soldiers in the war-torn country with good equipment.

Major Sebastian Morley resigned suddenly this week citing “personal reasons.” The Telegraph, however, has found that his decision was not personal, but political. (more…)

When I first reported about Barack Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango some readers accused me of hypocrisy because I wrote weeks ago that Bristol Palin, Sarah Palin’s daughter, was off limits, as was her son Trig. The two cases were, according to these pro-Obama readers, equal.

Sadly, however, they are not. (more…)

Dr. Bernhard Moeller moved with his family to Australia two years ago, in order to help solve the country’s shortage of doctors in rural areas. He found a home in the rural region of southeastern Victoria state, in the town of Horsham.

Immediately after arrival, Moeller became the only internal medicine specialist for a community of 54,000 people. The community got to know him, embraced him and his family, and became heavily dependent on his knowledge. (more…)

During a recent rally, a passionate supporter of Barack Obama said the rally was the “greatest moment” of her life and explained why. Her explanation is both telling and troubling:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=381gFG4Crr8[/youtube] (more…)

Team McCain continues to come across as highly positive, determined, focused and energetic. Where most people made fun of the Republican ticket for weeks, due to a perceived lack of direction and energy, even liberal journalists are now seemingly impressed.

“We are pretty jazzed up about what we are seeing in the movement of this election,” McCain’s campaign manager Rick Davis told reporters on a conference call Friday. (more…)

For the first time, former Israeli leader Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin spoke with reporters about his decision to assassinate Rabin.

Yigal Amir, extreme Zionist, killed Rabin at a Tel Aviv rally on Nov. 4, 1995. Amir considered Rabin a traitor for signing the Oslo peace accords in 1993.

He told Israel’s Channel 10 TV, an interview recorded secretly, that he was inspired to kill Rabin by right-wing politicians such as Ariel Sharon, Rehavam Zeevi and Rafael Eitan. (more…)