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Palin's Body of Lies

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, John McCain, Palin Troopergate, Verdict, Troopergate, Sarah Palin, Gop, Alaska, Russia Georgia War, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jacob Heilbrunn

Palin's behavior in her Troopergate affair was not an aberration. She is a serial abuser and Obama her latest target.

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Guilt By Associations

Mike Lux | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Alaska, John McCain, Todd Palin, Barack Obama, Oliver North, John Hagee, Charles Keating, Bill Ayers, G. Gordon Liddy, Thomas Muthee, Politics News
Mike Lux

I decided to put together a list of people with frightening beliefs and/or criminal backgrounds that McCain and Palin are tied to. We should all push to make the traditional media really dig into these relationships.

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Struggling to Avoid a Neck Injury in the Whiplash of Democracy

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, Pet Rocks, Palin Rape Kits, Palin, Democracy, Obama, Mccain, Democracy for America, Treasury Secretary, Politics News
Michealene Cristini Risley

All of us know what a lie is, and hopefully we believe it is wrong. So why when politicians and elected officials lie or tell half-truths it is acceptable to voters?

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Palin: Pallin' With Hypocrisy

Shannyn Moore | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Anwr, Alaska, John McCain, Exxon, G.Gordon Liddy, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Shannyn Moore

According to Palin's qualifications of "pallin' around," John McCain and G. Gordon Liddy are practically blood brothers.

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"Bridge to Nowhere"'s Demise Greatly Exaggerated

Jacob Alperin-Sheriff | Posted 10.08.2008 | Home

Read More: Alaska, Press Inquiries Refused, Sarah Palin, Offthebus, Troopergate, Home News
Jacob Alperin-Sheriff

Despite Governor Sarah Palin's repeated insistence that she said "Thanks but no thanks to the Bridge to Nowhere," the project is still ongoing in Alas...

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Ted Stevens Trial Winds Down For Prosecution

AP | TOM HAYS and JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 10.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ted Stevens, Ted Stevens Trial, Ted Stevens Corruption, Corruption, Alaska, Alaska Corruption, Oil, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday refused another defense request to declare a mistrial in the corruption case against Sen. Ted Stevens,...

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Palin In My Prayer Group, Says Witchcraft-Fighting "Spiritual Warfare" Leader

Bruce Wilson | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sarah Palin, Wasilla, Thomas Muthee, John McCain, Mary Glazier, Governor of Alaska, Alaska, New Apostolic Reformation, Politics News
Bruce Wilson

Members of the New Apostolic Reformation clearly profess to believe that others will be forced to accept their beliefs or be destroyed.

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Palin's Governor Expenses, Including Billed Nights At Home, To Be Reviewed By Alaska

AP | BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sarah Palin, Palin Expenses, Palin Per Diems, Alaska, Palin Review, Politics News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's practice of charging the state when she stays in her home must be reviewed to determine if she sho...

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Palin's Wasilla Doodles Reveal The Origin Of McCain Campaign Myths (PHOTO)

TNR/ABC | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Wasilla, Palin Doodle, Palin Wasilla, Local Politics, Sarah Palin Doodle, Sarah Palin, Alaska, Politics News

The New Republic reports: On a recent reporting trip to Alaska, TNR senior editor Noam Scheiber came across a piece of paper from an old Wasilla ...

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Palin Brings Laughter To The Masses

Liz Umlas and Rachel Eliana Berman | Posted 10.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Vice President, Wasilla, Experience, Library, Books, Joe Biden, Governor, Foreign Policy, Vice Presidential Debate, Political Cartoon, Expectations, Sarah Palin, Domestic Policy, Election 2008, Alaska, Palin Books, Home News
Liz Umlas and Rachel Eliana Berman

Liz Umlas has joined forces with her daughter Rachel to entertain OffTheBus readers with their political cartoons. Rachel supplies the artistic skills, and Liz brings the political ideas.

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Palin's Secrecy Betrays Campaign Promises

AP | RITA BEAMISH | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sarah Palin, Alaska, Local Politics, Sarah Palin Secrecy, Palin Press, Campaign Promises, Politics News

Sarah Palin's promise for a new era of government openness as the reform governor of Alaska started to crack even before Sen. John McCain's presidenti...

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The Truth About Palin and Darfur

AKMuckraker | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vp Debate, Palin Darfur, Palin Gara, Les Gara, Sarah Palin, Darfur, Sarah Palin Darfur, Alaska, 2008 Election, Politics News
AKMuckraker

During last week's VP debate, Sarah Palin talked big with claims of her administration's leadership role in an attempt to divest Alaska holdings from Darfur. Sound too good to be true? Guess why.

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Alaska 101 For Presidential Candidates

Evon Peter | Posted 10.06.2008 | Home

Read More: Obama-McCain Election, Alaska, American Greed, Sarah Palin, Big Oil, Native's Rights, Home News
Evon Peter

My wise grandfather, who helped raise me as a child in northern Alaska, was born in 1904 into an 'uncivilized' status. He was not a United States citizen, he could not vote, and had to endure business signs that read "no dogs, no natives."

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Sarah Palin's Taxes Raise Questions On Ethics

NY Times | Leslie Wayne | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Governor of Alaska, Alaska, Palin Taxes, Palin Ethics, Sarah Palin, Politics News

Now that tax attorneys have had a chance to review Gov. Sarah Palin's tax returns, which were released late last week, a new round of questions are be...

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Does Sarah Palin Know Any Jews?

Matt Littman | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Jews, Alaska, Obama, Zabar's, Sarah Palin, Georgia, Sarah Palin Jews, Politics News
Matt Littman

So, I am asking, how many Jews do you think Sarah Palin has met? Literally. Ten? Two? One of the reasons she is so frightening is because her frame of reference appears to be so narrow.

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"You Can't Blink," So Wink -- Is America on the Threshold of a Palin Presidency?

Bill Katovsky | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: White House, Obama, Alaska, Mccain, 2008 VP Debate, Palin, Sarah Palin, Jeremiah Wright, Doggone Betcha, Politics News
Bill Katovsky

What frightens many about Paliin is not only her low-wattage intellect, which is on par with Bush's congenital incuriosity, but her own certitude about the way things ought to be in politics and life.

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McCain Angry With Himself?

Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Karl Rove, Alaska, Financial Bailout, Terrorism, Economy, George W. Bush, Colorado, Congress, Democratic Party, Che Guevara, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Wall Street, Maine, Todd Palin, Georgia, Alaska Independence Party, Republican Party, Indiana, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

The raw anger displayed by McCain is so over the top that he cannot seriously be targeting it at anyone but himself, and perhaps the Republican Party he has grown to hate.

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Terrorists, Secessionists, Sarah Palin and Guilt by Association

Robert Mackey | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Todd Palin, Palin and Secession, Sarah Palin, Terrorist, Alaska, Alaska Secessionist Party, Weather Underground, Aip, Politics News
Robert Mackey

Governor, you have a "close association" with a known former member of a radical, right-wing, well-armed and well-funded political party whose founder damned the United States as virulently as Reverend Wright did.

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Palin's Faith Based Science Creates Policy

Shannyn Moore | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Alaska, Sarah Palin Aerial Wolf Hunting, Environmental Policy, Moose Populations, Palin Aerial Wolf Hunting, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Shannyn Moore

The smell of fresh snow and the burning fuel of a Ski-Doo Olympic Snowmachine are part of my vivid childhood memories. I would hang on to my pop's sno...

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How Many Mexicans Live In Alaska?

Pablo Manriquez | Posted 10.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Immigration, Palin, Sarah Palin, Latinos, Latino Voters, Mexicans, Inexperience, Mexico, Hispanic Voters, Election 2008, Alaska, Hispanic Population, Home News
Pablo Manriquez

The American voter -- and in particular, the Hispanic-American voter -- should demand that Sarah Palin articulate her position on immigration policy, and on any other policies she has thus far failed to address.

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The Weekly Roundup: OTB Commentators Eager To Gripe About Economy, Palin

Chris Nelson | Posted 10.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Russia, Bush Administration, Economic Crisis, Economy, Katie Couric, Sarah Palin, Palin Mccain, Election 2008, Alaska, Presidential Debates, Home News
Chris Nelson

The Weekly Roundup is a collection of musings from the vast expanse of our submission pool. It serves as your window into what your peers have been thinking and saying over the past week in the election cycle.

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Nature Abhors a Vacuum but so do Wingnuts: The Bailout and our National Security

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Wall Street Crisis, Conservatives, National Security, Terrorism, Missile Defense, The White House Project, Congressional Oversight, Sarah Palin Vice President, Political Corruption, Alaska, Palin Biden Debate, Counterinsurgency, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Lorelei Kelly

Conservative lip service to ideas like free markets and a strong defense produced neither. These "values" were never actually turned into priorities for policy making.

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In The Real American Heartland, Not Impressed With Palin's Bad Syntax

Susan Eleuterio | Posted 10.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Alaska, Vice Presidential Debate, Heartland, Indiana, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Home News
Susan Eleuterio

We watched the Biden/Palin debate on this cool early October night with two friends at our restored farm house in Highland, a small town in northweste...

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Biden Devastates Palin

Michael Carmichael | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vice Presidential Debate, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Alaska, Nuclear, Dick Cheney, The Most Dangerous Vice President in History, Politics News
Michael Carmichael

For some reason that remains obscure, Palin's handlers had not corrected her mispronunciation of the word that has also bedeviled George W. Bush: "Nooc-you-ler."

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I Want A VP Who Is Smarter Than Me

Pam Atherton | Posted 10.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Wasilla, Vice President, Debate, Middle Class, Joe Biden, Maverick, Shia, Intellectual, Nuclear, Anti-Intellectual, Intelligence, Vice President Debate, Elite, Folksy, Sarah Palin, Washington, Alaska, Sunnis, Hockey Mom, John McCain, Home News
Pam Atherton

I don't want someone who believes their biggest asset is that they know what it's like to shop at WalMart and take their kids to hockey practice in a mini-van. How will that help in negotiations and diplomatic missions with other heads of state?

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