Just another influence to deny or throw under the bus, I guess… (h/t RTBA)

Daniel Henninger, WSJ: he credit-market turmoil is serious, but no campaign has the information Treasury or the Fed are using to work the problem. Rather than be dragged into the path of the financial storm, the McCain campaign especially needs to refocus on its postconvention momentum. It needs to worry about wasting the political capital Gov. Sarah Palin deposited in the Bank of McCain three weeks ago. Once Mr. McCain

Same as it ever was… From Tom, via email: And you may ask yourself What is that beautiful house? And you may ask yourself Where does that highway go? And you may ask yourself Am I right? …am I wrong? And you may tell yourself My god!…what have I done? — The Talking Heads, “Once in a Lifetime” **** So this should be a celebratory, but the truth is that,

…How do we do that, you ask? Simple: surrender more money to the government: Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says that paying higher taxes is the patriotic thing to do for wealthier Americans. Biden says he and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama want to “take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people.” Under the Democrats’ economic plan, people earning more than $250,000 a year would

Change you can believe in! From Bloomberg: The Democratic-controlled Congress, acknowledging that it isn’t equipped to lead the way to a solution for the financial crisis and can’t agree on a path to follow, is likely to just get out of the way. Lawmakers say they are unlikely to take action before, or to delay, their planned adjournments — Sept. 26 for the House of Representatives, a week later for

Oops: This afternoon, in a thread that was later deleted, an individual claiming to be the original poster gave his account of what happened. I’ve attached screencaps. Here’s the text. The original poster used the name “rubico.” The linked email address for the poster was rubico10@yahoo.com.This is what rubico said: rubico 09/17/08(Wed)12:57:22 No.85782652 Hello, /b/ as many of you might already know, last night sarah palin’s yahoo was “hacked” and

Michelle Malkin on Sarah Palin’s use of a tanning bed in Alaska hacking, identity theft, intimidation, and Gawker’s gleeful presentation of the stolen property. I won’t link to Gawker — at least, not until they run a piece on Nick Denton being frogmarched to federal prison; but if there’s anything positive that may come out of this, it’s that we may now find out how capable the government is at

WaPo: North Korea has tested the engine mechanism for an intercontinental missile that might be able to hit major cities on the U.S. West Coast, according to an account published Tuesday in the South Korean press. A previously unknown missile launch site on the west coast of North Korea was identified last week by Jane’s Defense Weekly, which cited commercial satellite images. The facility has a mobile launch pad and

Richard Miniter, “What if Obama loses?” [To the Dem base] Obama is much more than Kerry could ever be. Obama’s biography is straight out of a Democratic dream factory; his being touches and excites every element of the vast and varied Democratic party coalition. He and his wife are activist lawyers; he is connected to both the 1960s radicals (Ayers et al) and the Daley Democrats who beat them up

     “What are those, behind the reeds? Are those ducks?”      Billy didn’t hesitate. “Without a doubt. Ducks.” finis