October 10, 2008
Obama & Friends: Judge Not?
McCain has only himself to blame for the bad timing. He should months ago have begun challenging Obama’s associations, before the economic meltdown allowed the Obama campaign (and the mainstream…
October 9, 2008
Wall Street 101
There is plenty of blame to go around. Greedy Wall Street speculators took mega-bonuses even when they knew their leveraged companies were tottering — and someone else would pick up the tab….
McCain in a Bear Market
This, McCain and his female Sancho Panza say, is demonstrated by bad associations Obama had in Chicago, such as with William Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist. But the McCain-Palin charges have come…
October 6, 2008
The Real Obama
Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, William Ayers and Antoin Rezko are not just people who happened to be at the same place at the same time as Barack Obama. They are people with whom he chose…
The Real Obama: Part IV

Yet Senator Obama not only voted in favor of the bridge to nowhere, he voted against anti-earmark amendments proposed by Senator John McCain.

Obama has had more than two dozen of his own earmarks…

The Real Obama: Part III

The education situation in Obama’s home base of Chicago is one of the worst in the nation for the children— and one of the best for the unionized teachers.

Fewer than one-third of Chicago’s…

The Real Obama: Part II

Does it matter if Barack Obama is for sex education in kindergarten? It matters more than most things that are called “the real issues.”

Seemingly unrelated things can give important insights…

October 5, 2008
The Rough Rider's Collectivism
He was an individualist who considered the individualism of others an impediment to the social unity required for national greatness. Having read Darwin’s “The Origin of Species” at age 14, and…
October 4, 2008
Do Facts Matter?
The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back into a substantial lead over John McCain— which is astonishing in view of which man and which party has had the most to do with…
October 2, 2008
Obama Passing the Reagan Threshold

When the financial crisis hit, McCain went razzle-dazzle again, suspending his campaign and declaring he’d stay away from the first presidential debate until the financial crisis was solved.

He…