From the AP: Democrats have decided to allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week, conceding defeat in a months-long battle with the White House and Republicans set off by $4 a gallon gasoline prices this summer. […] Republicans have made lifting the ban a key campaign issue after gasoline prices spiked this summer and public opinion turned in favor

Zoinks! If only some mole could infiltrate Governor Palin’s inner circle and convince her to dress more in earth tones, the republic as we know it — nay, democracy itself, and everything this country has come to stand for! — could be saved. But alas. This dumb tundra hick, this, this… Hooter’s hand puppet, has never even been to Milan, much less tried on shoes for which any self respecting

Like radicalism, only with a pleasing candy coating! Me, I’d call them “Alinsky Wafers,” but then, I’m all about giving credit where it’s due. And let’s face it, this Messiah business is starting to look like a real pressure filled job. From Stanley Kurtz: From 1995 to 1999, [Barack Obama] led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured

— And it’s in you, the white guy or gal who is not planning to vote for Obama. Okay, well maybe not you in this case: here, the target seems to be Democrats who may either cross over and vote for McCain or who will stay home rather than vote for a black man. Conservatives of all races are de facto racists, of course, and so can be comfortably excluded

Unsurprisingly, deregulation is not to blame. First, here are Charles Calomiris, professor of finance and economics at Columbia Business School and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and Paul Wallison, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and general counsel of the Treasury Department in the Reagan administration, writing in the the WSJ. From “Blame Fannie Mae and Congress For the Credit Mess”: the vast accumulation of toxic

Though it seems unlikely to me, one way the election could play out, as noted in the Washington Times, is as follows: On Nov. 5, the presidential election winds up in a electoral-college tie, 269-269, the Democrat-controlled House picks Sen. Barack Obama as president, but the Senate, with former Democrat Joe Lieberman voting with Republicans, deadlocks at 50-50, so Vice President Dick Cheney steps in to break the tie to

Though he was limited to 800 words, our own commenter Aldo had his piece defending Sarah Palin published in the online edition of the LAT’s opinion page: […] much has been made of [Governor Palin’s] supporters’ protectiveness, such as the recent complaint that Republicans are indulging in the type of grievance politics that they have traditionally opposed. “Why can’t she be questioned?” goes the refrain. Obscured by the word “questioned”