Daily Archives: May 12th, 2008 «

 

Monday/Tuesday open thread

Posted by: ST on May 12, 2008 at 9:48 pm » 3 Comments

FYI – make sure to update your bookmarks. Aussie blogger Tim Blair has some new digs: Australia’s Daily Telegraph blog. Instapundit has moved as well, to this web address.

 

Introducing the Barack Obama 57 state flag lapel pin

Posted by: ST on May 12, 2008 at 8:50 pm » 2 Comments

Heheh. And speaking of lapel pins, Obama was back to wearing one today in veteran-friendly West Virginia: Wearing a flag lapel pin, Sen. Barack Obama emphasized his patriotism and support for a strong and humane military Monday, while Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton implored West Virginians to sustain her hopes of somehow denying him the Democratic [...]

 

Goracle uses Myanmar cyclone tragedy as a book promo tool

Posted by: ST on May 12, 2008 at 7:07 pm » 5 Comments

Peter Foster at Canada’s National Post blog writes about the latest example of The Goracle proving himself to be the consumate opportunist – by using the Myanmar cyclone tragedy, which to date has left nearly 32,000 dead, another 30,000 missing, and over 2 million other devastated, to promote the paperback version of his alarmist scribblings: [...]

 

Clinton will likely take the West Virginia and Kentucky primaries in a landslide

Posted by: ST on May 12, 2008 at 12:28 pm » 6 Comments

If these poll numbers are any indication, it’s all over but the crying for Barry O. as far as the upcoming West Virginia and Kentucky primaries are concerned. Both states have high populations of working class white Democrats who have not warmed up to Obama. I think Hillary’s sticking around in the Dem nomination race, [...]

 

Newsweek echos Obama campaign’s talking points, McCain camp responds

Posted by: ST on May 12, 2008 at 9:45 am » 2 Comments

Newsweek’s Evan Thomas and Richard Wolffe wrote a piece this past weekend that sounded like something you’d find emphasized in the Obama campaign’s talking points handbook. Essentially, the piece talked about how the Obama camp would be prepared to counter the GOP’s “smear tactics,” implying that using such tactics, including the use of proxies in [...]