Monthly Archives: October 2008

By the Sword

Years from now, it is unlikely that anyone other than people like me (re: people with a professional interest in terrorism) will care much about this example of backfired fear-mongering, but I think it is incredibly salient to the Right’s totally ridiculous assertions about how Obama is a secret Muslim terrorist. McCain and Palin raise

Reporter Assaulted at Sarah Palin Rally

Unforgivable but not at all surprising, via TPM.

The John-McCain-As-Nigerian-Prince Email Scam

We have truly entered the silly season when John McCain starts palling around with foreign email scammers: Selected Winner…….£500,000.00 John Mccain Extention Network Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 1:19 AM John Mccain Organization, Alaska London/Germany Extension Office Foreign Relations Committee Address:Bressenden Place London SW1E 5DU, England. Revised 16/10/2008 JOHN MCCAIN FOR AMERICA: This electronic mail

A Horrendous Beating with a Smile and a Nod

I can barely believe what I’ve just seen. John McCain, more or less, seethed and blinked his way to certain political ignominy. John McCain wanted to get Hillary Clinton’s voters the whole time, and tonight he blew that apart with his meltdown – and totally ghoulish – response on abortion and women’s health. He wanted

All Over But The Crying

Embedded video from CNN Video

Toning It Down, All Right

From Brett Marty, via fivethirtyeight.com (which, if you are into stats porn like I am, they have your mathletic dreams fulfilled): Outside Obama’s economic policy speech in Toledo, Ohio.

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