
While debris from collapsing financial institutions
continue to fall during the final days of the Bush Administration, the President has found something he considers a "success" — the Iraq war.
In an interview played on Japanese TV this week, a
"very pleased" Bush said: I think the decision to remove Saddam Hussein was right. .

Eureka Springs has become the San Francisco of Arkansas, according to the American Family Association. The AFA's latest DVD —
They're Coming to Your Town — teaches unsuspecting Christian communities how to prevent gays from taking over their towns. If you're so inclined, you can purchase the DVD in a five-pack and distribute it to your friends or Sunday school teachers.

This week the McCain ticket has tried to tenuously connect Barack Obama to Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, a leading scholar of Middle Eastern studies, who served on the University of Chicago faculty with Obama.
Sarah Palin
said yesterday: "This is important because his associate, Rashid Khalidi . .

In 2001 John McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts, part of which Barack Obama now wants to
let expire (while keeping some in place). In 2000, McCain shared a take on the progressive tax system, which deviates from the one he has now. He confronted a question from the daughter of "Joe the Doctor" who asked McCain at a 2000 townhall: "Why is it that someone like my father, who goes to school for 13 years, gets penalized in a huge tax bracket because he's a doctor?"

Sarah Palin has been
painting Barack Obama as unpatriotic lately, bringing up Obama's acquaintance with William Ayers, a
current college professor and former member of the Weather Underground, a radical organization that wanted to end the Vietnam War through acts of domestic terrorism when Obama was eight-years-old.
But the McCain/Palin ticket has dubious associations of its own. One example: Palin's connection to the separatist Alaskan Independence Party, founded by Joe Volgar who died buying explosives and said while alive: "The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government."