Bird’s-Eye View

The Dow Jones finished 300 points down today, hitting a four-year low. Credit markets are frozen, which means businesses can’t get a loan. Europe’s facing its own financial crisis.
What does the McCain campaign want to talk about? A comment Democrat Barack Obama made more than a year ago about Afghanistan, words that U.S. Rep. Joe […]

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Caught this at Politico.com. Apparently, after stumbling through the Katie Couric interview and now facing rising concern among conservatives about her ability to be vice president, Sarah Palin is going back on the airwaves. While in “debate camp” in Arizona, Palin will do a round of interviews on conservative talk radio:
After the debate and talk […]

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The same FOX News/Rasmussen poll that had the candidates tied nine days ago shows Barack Obama with a 3 percent lead over John McCain in Pennsylvania.
Notes from the poll:
Obama is trusted more than McCain on the economy by a seven-point margin in both Michigan and Pennsylvania. The candidates are evenly divided on the issue in […]

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Add this to the list of scandals during the Bush administration:
Senior aides to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales broke the law by using politics to guide their hiring decisions for a wide range of important department positions, slowing the hiring process at critical times and damaging the department’s credibility and independence, an internal report concluded […]

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Saw “The Dark Knight” on Saturday. Un-flippin’-believable. Jack Nicholson who? Everything you’ve heard and seen about Heath Ledger’s turn as the Joker is true, and just try to get the movie out of your head after seeing it. Just try to fight the temptation to see it twice or three times. It’s superhero genre meets […]

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I don’t know whether to applaud or continue shaking my head in disbelief. From the Associated Press:
WASHINGTON — President Bush signed a bill Tuesday allowing Nelson Mandela to visit the United States without the secretary of state having to certify that he is not a terrorist.
The new law removes from U.S. immigration watch lists the […]

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I know many of you love New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd about as much as the smell of manure, but she makes an interesting point in her latest column:
Charlie Black crassly argued in Fortune that a terrorist attack would “be a big advantage” for John McCain … .
It’s hard to believe that if Americans […]

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