Sep
19
2008
Well, there are late term abortions, and there are late, late, late term abortions so that financially struggling government health care can save a few coins: Elderly people suffering from dementia should consider ending their lives because they are a burden on the NHS and their families, according to the influential medical ethics expert Baroness […]
Sep
19
2008
Wanted to just post a bunch of items I have been holding onto that I find interesting. Sadly for you folks sick of polls it contains a lot of polls. But for the rest of us propeller-heads there is some intetersting data points to ponder. Not to fear though, I am starting of with excerpts […]
Sep
18
2008
This is a must read for all of us who are seriously trying to assess the political options and are sick and tired of egotistical partisans telling us how dumb we are for not agreeing with them. A snippet from the leftward fevered swamps: if you are a McCain/Palin/Bush voter, you and I do not […]
Sep
18
2008
ARG is out with a bevy of national and state polls in the past few days which are interesting, to say the least. In the national numbers (note: scroll down to Sep 16th item) McCain is up 48-45, a 9 point shift since the end of August. But the internals are really interesting for Obama: McCain has gained […]
Sep
17
2008
It’s Out! – see below As soon as I can find it on YouTube I will post it, but Lynn Forrester de Rothschild just mopped the floor with Campbell Brown, who was having an emotional meltdown over how the former Clinton backer was supporting McCain-Palin. Â The problem for Brown is de Rothschild is ten times […]
Sep
17
2008
I had to steal a great line from Mark Levin today (I rarely listen to him these days, but beltway traffic can lead to long commutes with only AM talk radio as a companion). He called Barack Obama (and by extension his campaign) the Community Agitator, and it fits. We now see what Obama-Axelrod Axis […]
Sep
17
2008
Is this the Palin effect writ large? Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and member of the Democratic National Committee’s Platform Committee, will endorse John McCain for president on Wednesday, her spokesman tells CNN. … In an interview with CNN this summer, Forester did not hide her distaste for eventual Democratic presidential nominee […]
Sep
16
2008
Note: I should note that the intentions of Monegan could be on the up and up, pushing for more security. I let my experience of how some use their government jobs and legislative positions to line their pockets color my view of all this. The man did try to fight his boss the Governor and […]
Sep
16
2008
Ever since the GOP convention and the selection of Governor Sarah Palin for the VP slot there have been numerous polls showing a pro McCain-Palin wave of various levels and duration across the nation. I have posted on these over the past few days (see below for links). What is clear is deep blue states […]
Sep
16
2008
Charles Franklin over at Pollster.com has done some excellent analysis showing how the McCain-Palin wave is washing across the nation, not just in red states as the Obama campaign is claiming (in a clear fit of denial): Obama advisor David Axelrod is quoted in today’s Washington Post article by Dan Balz and Peter Slevin:    “I think […]