Sarah Palin, the McCain campaign and many bloggers have described the Troopergate investigation as a partisan inquiry. It was carried out by the Alaska Legislative Council. The members of the Council are 10 Republicans and 4 Democrats. The Council voted 12-0 to release the report by investigator Steve...
Nathan Gardels | Posted October 12, 2008 | Business
George Soros, the financier and philanthropist, is author most recently of The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What it Means. He spoke with me in Washington, D.C., where the IMF and World Bank are meeting, on Sunday.
Nathan Gardels: Let's talk first about the...
Robbie Gennet | Posted October 12, 2008 | Politics
The most recent Newsweek poll says that while a whopping 86 percent of voters say they are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States, 10 percent of voters say they are satisfied. Not accounting for the 4 percent who were perhaps too dumbfounded to speak, who...
Andy Borowitz | Posted October 12, 2008 | Politics
With just three weeks to go until Election Day, the McCain campaign has launched a nationwide talent search to find angry audience members for their increasingly hate-filled rallies, McCain aides confirmed today.
"People assume that when we hold a rally, angry white people just magically appear, but that's not the...
Martin Varsavsky | Posted October 12, 2008 | Business
When I was in college Prince used to sing "we are going to party like it´s 1999". Surprisingly that´s what the markets are singing now. 1999 was almost a decade ago but the value of stocks now is the value of stocks in 1999. If you had kept a...
Robert Naiman | Posted October 12, 2008 | Politics
Defense Secretary Gates said Thursday that the U.S. could "ultimately" contemplate the idea of negotiating with the Taliban to secure a political settlement in Afghanistan, if the Afghan government were to pursue such talks, the Financial Times reports. Gates said a political settlement with the Taliban was "conceivable."
...Tom Matzzie | Posted October 12, 2008 | Politics
Imagine an election where one of the participants calls foul. Investigations are launched or at least called for. Prosecutors raise the specter of charges, the U.S. attorney and FBI get involved. No voter fraud is ever actually found. But by the time that conclusion is reached, the myth has been...
Jack Hidary | Posted October 12, 2008 | Media
The home page of Fox News is showing an ad for a T-shirt company featuring two anorexic models. What a wonderful way to portray your feelings for your country. 
You can buy some wonderful shirts on this site with such slogans...
Kerry Trueman | Posted October 12, 2008 | Green
Hey, ho, where's the cash flow? Wasn't the bailout supposed to get those streams of credit flowing again? But while the titans of trickle-down and the free-reign rainmakers pray for new rivers of revenue to float their boats,...
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted October 12, 2008 | Politics
According to Time, McCain campaign staffers in Virginia are teaching volunteers to see Barack Obama as having terrorist 'friends,' and then providing these volunteers with arguments for persuading voters that Sen. Obama, like Osama Bin Laden, shares responsibility for bombings of the Pentagon.
The report from inside the...
Dave Winer | Posted October 12, 2008 | Politics
Are the markets are waiting to find out who wins the election?
Will trust return if the voters go... for Obama? Republican?
Me, I can't wait for the election to be over. But I'm totally looking forward to the final debate (we're doing another debate party at the Hillside...
Blake Fleetwood | Posted October 12, 2008 | Politics
In no way am I suggesting that John McCain is qualified to be president of the United States. By temperament and policy, he is clearly not able to lead us in foreign affairs or domestic policy. He is mired in the cold war policies of the past. His aggressiveness is...
By Tim Giago (Nanwica Kciji)
© 2008 Native American Journalists Foundation, Inc.
October 13, 2008
As I write this there are only three weeks left until Election Day.
Native Americans by the thousands will, for the most part, go into the voting booth and...
Lee Stranahan | Posted October 12, 2008 | Politics
I'm posting a new ultrashort video on YouTube every day from now until election day listing different reasons I'm voting for Barack Obama in no particular order. I want to mention another creative project along similar lines - 30Reasons.org is a group of graphic artists posting an original poster...
Lloyd Alter | Posted October 12, 2008 | Green
The view from my window
Every year we celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving with an extraordinary family that lives all year round on a small lake just outside of Algonquin Park in Ontario. They don't keep a TV or computer in the...
Menachem Rosensaft | Posted October 12, 2008 | Politics
Who is Todd Palin?
According to the Alaska legislative report on what has become known as Troopergate, Sarah Palin's husband used the Governor's office to promote a personal agenda. Indeed, while the report found that Governor Palin "unlawfully abused her authority" in her obsessive vendetta against her former brother, the...
Sal Nunziato | Posted October 12, 2008 | Entertainment
At the beginning of "On Golden Pond," Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn return to their summer home. It's an annual pilgrimage that is both warm and familiar, as well as cold and dispiriting. As each year passes, everything becomes a little less everything. Lots of dust and some cobwebs, a...
William Fisher | Posted October 12, 2008 | Politics
Poor George!
His administration can't seem to catch a break these days.
As some of you may have heard, Dubya finds himself at the center of an economic meltdown. And neither he, nor his trusted lieutenants, appears to have much of a clue about how to reverse it. (The Presidential...
George Spyros | Posted October 12, 2008 | Politics
(Select the video from the playist)
Sarah Palin yesterday defended her actions in the Troopergate scandal after an Alaska ethics report concluded that she had abused her gubernatorial power when firing a state official. In the video Palin seems to flout the reality of the ethics...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted October 12, 2008 | Living
I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you should have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit. Join in -- no need to catch up, just jump in right now.
This has been a crazy week in the financial world....
John McCain was booed by his own supporters during a rally on Friday after he described Barack...
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John Weaver, John McCain's former top strategist, says the Republican candidate...
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I don't know if Sarah would be into trying yoga. It can be a fairly...
We all put our pants on one leg at a time. But when you're running for public office,...
PORTERVILLE, Calif. — National forests and parks _ long popular...
James Love | Posted October 12, 2008 | Politics