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Instapundit:
To test Nancy Pelosi’s hypothesis that after eight years of President Bush the economy is in far worse shape than it was under President Clinton at a time of “budget surpluses,” I went to Lending Tree to see what kind of mortgage terms I could get to buy my first home today. . . .
So […]

From the youtube page:
Sing for Change chronicles a recent Sunday afternoon, when 22 children, ages 5-12, gathered to sing original songs in the belief that their singing would lift up our communities for the coming election. Light, hope, courage and love shine through these nonvoting children who believe that their very best contribution to the […]

At first glance, it looks like Obama has a good idea.
Adopting a proposal backed by some House Republicans, he wants to hike the FDIC insurance limits from $100,000 to $250,000, which would, presumably, restore faith in banks while giving small business owners a place to park their cash.
There are just two problems. First, McCain beat […]

I got chided over at Hot Air by somebody who claimed the “facts” have been out there for two weeks, and I just wasn’t paying attention.
Sorry, but no, they have not. Where are the economic analyses balancing a bailout against none? I’ll tell you where they are: Nobody has bothered to do any.
Pardon my skepticism, […]

I forgot something I needed for one of those errands, so here in a little while, I’m going to have to go back downtown. Duh.

Off to mail those Congress critter letters, and do another errand.

I’m sending this to Peterson, Specter, and Casey today.
It seems imprudent to rush a bailout bill. There have been no committee hearings, and as far as I have been able to tell, very little data. Forbes reported this week that, “’It’s not based on any particular data point,’ a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. ‘We […]

There’s no problem at Fannie Mae, you wingnuts!

From — of all places — the LA Times, about that $700 billion.
“It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. “We just wanted to choose a really large number.”
They made it up to be sufficiently ginormous to frighten everyone into rapid action.
And it worked.

The Obama thugs hacked Macsmind.
What’s ironic is that for the last eight years, idiots have been going on TV claiming they’re being silenced (while speaking on TV) and howled about the Bush-Cheney fascist state, and free speech. Except the only fascist tactics and free speech violations have been by the Obama campaign.
Fascinating, that.

By now, everybody’s heard how Obama piped up and said, “I wear a bracelet too!” then had to look at it because he didn’t know the soldier’s name. Well, it turns out that the family of that soldier have repeatedly asked Obama not to wear it, or use their son as a campaign trick.
Barack Obama […]

Opposition to the bailout continues to grow.

Biden speaks for McCain.

Tax breaks — that is, stealing less money from businesses — is not corporate welfare.
This is corporate welfare.
The loan package for automakers would reward them with $25 billion in below-market loans, costing taxpayers $7.5 billion to subsidize the retooling of plants and development of technologies to help U.S. carmakers to build cleaner, more fuel efficient […]

Started the prednisone yesterday, and the hip is much better today, but after doing errands (not so great an idea), it’s starting to hurt hurt. I’ll hold off on the pain pills as long as possible, but the problem is that sitting hurts. So I’m going to lie down.

Obama invoked Kissinger while defending his “talk with no preconditions,” and Kissinger slaps him down for misquoting him.
Then, Biden pulls a John Kerry in Pennsylvania.
Campaigning in Pennsylvania coal country on Thursday, the Democratic vice presidential nominee said the government should steer more money to clean coal — a term used to describe a variety of […]

Looking at the “Catholic vote.”

The first post-debate debate ad.

300 retired Generals and Admirals endorse McCain.

Breaking news: Obama is a jackbooted thug.
Barack Obama’s campaign is trying to silence the National Rifle Association’s latest ad campaign using strong arm tactics by threatening them with possible legal action if they run the ads
Why the thuggery? Because the NRA is right, and Obama doesn’t want you to know until after election day (hint […]

Even Bill Clinton admits it. Noel Sheppard reports:
Going very much against the media meme that the current financial crisis is all George W. Bush and the Republicans’ fault, Bill Clinton on Thursday told ABC’s Chris Cuomo that Democrats for years have been “resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress or by me when I […]

Seriously. These are the three candidates running for Peterson’s House seat. Thompson is the Republican, McCracken is the Democrat, and Fryman is the Libertarian.

No matter who wins, we’ll have the ugliest representative in the House.

This time, from Obama:
A $100,000 state grant for a botanic garden in Englewood that then-state Sen. Barack Obama awarded in 2001 to a group headed by a onetime campaign volunteer is now under investigation by the Illinois attorney general amid new questions, prompted by Chicago Sun-Times reports, about whether the money might have been misspent.
The […]

You’d think in trying to iron out what to do about this housing welfare mess that the Democrats would drop their usual dishonesty, wouldn’t you. Think again.
Leave it to Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid to crash the Energy Freedom party. Not only is he crashing the party, he’s doing so through the side door where […]

The Phoenix Business Journal:
U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., may be throwing a monkey wrench into efforts to pass a $700 billion bank bailout, instead favoring alternative plans that looks to free up capital and credit markets via tax and regulatory relief while allowing financial institutions to temporarily skip dividend payments to shareholders.
Republican and Democratic officials […]

The arthritis is really, really painful today. I finally broke down and called my doctor. Off to the pharmacy (that is not going to be fun) now, see the doctor tomorrow.

Swimmingly, apparently.
On entering a room filled with several Pakistani officials this afternoon, Palin was immediately greeted by Sherry Rehman, the country’s Information Minister.
“And how does one keep looking that good when one is that busy?,” Rehman asked, drawing friendly laughter from the room when she complimented Palin.
“Oh, thank you,” Palin said.
Pakistan’s recently-elected president, Asif Ali […]

His Changeyness is fond of whining that he puts country first, too, in response to McCain’s campaign slogan. So let’s look at that whine.
Senator McCain has suspended his campaign to return to Congress.
America this week faces an historic crisis in our financial system. We must pass legislation to address this crisis. If we do not, […]

That’s what Ace calls naming names on the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac fiasco — on the news.
Chuckles Schumer:
I think Fannie and Freddie over the years have doe an incredibly good job and are an intrinsic part of making America the best-housed people i the world . . . if you look over the last 20 or […]

Maybe the one must see of the entire election season. One of the most powerful ads I’ve ever seen, from Catholic Vote. Beautifully done, moving, and very powerful.

Have you noticed that the only numbers we’re getting is the amount of the bailout? In the last couple of days, I’ve heard 700 billion and 1 trillion. But you know, there are some things we — not to mention Congress — need to know.
First, what will be the estimated economic cost of the bailout?
Second, […]

I’ve been getting 500 errors on all of the admin pages here all morning. Seems to be working now. Rather, I got this page. We’ll see if it posts.

Rachel makes an astute observation.
You know what’s funny? It’s always people like this, the ones who fear a fascist police-state, who don’t think regular citizens should be allowed to have guns. And they say we’re the stupid ones.

The Palin Derangement Syndrome Database!
And Palin Rumors, also excellently done.

Ol’ Joe Motormouth outdoes himself:
Joe Biden’s denunciation of his own campaign’s ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by.
He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t […]

Thanks — I think — to Hube. These Earth First nutjobs need to be committed. Seriously.

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Thank your nearest university for turning these wackos out onto the streets.

Lunch, then off to headquarters.

I wouldn’t let this get out, if I were you — and I certainly wouldn’t say it anywhere near Pennsylvania or West Virginia.
I don’t think there’s much of a role for clean coal in energy independence, but I do think there’s a significant role for clean coal in the bigger picture of climate change. Clean-coal […]

This isn’t on the site yet — I just got it in my mail queue from the campaign. It’s too good not to share, even if I can’t link to anything. It looks like Palin is rubbing off on the campaign.

DECONSTRUCTING OBAMA:
Barack Obama’s Rhetoric Vs. His Record
ARLINGTON, VA — At today’s speech in Green Bay, […]