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Joe Biden's Mythical Blue-Collar Roots
Sep 08, 2008; Chapman, Steve ... Media Romanticize Senator's Background Joe Biden once got in trouble for plagiarizing a speech and inflating his academic record. So it will not surprise you to find that his famous working-class background turns out to be mythical. But it may surprise you to learn that Biden isn't the ...
'I am Going to Washington to Serve the People of this Country'
Sep 08, 2008; Palin, Sarah ... Excerpted from Alaska Gov, Polin 's address to the Republican National Convention Sept. 3, 2008. Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored to be considered tor the nomination for Vice President of the United States. I accept the call to help our nominee for ...
'Obama has never led anything. Nada.'
Sep 08, 2008; Giuliani, Rudy ... Excerpted from former New York Mayor Giuliani 's address to the Republican National Convention Sept. 3, 2008. Almost exactly one year ago today, during a presidential debate in Durham, N.H., I said that if I weren't running for President, I'd be supporting John McCaio. Well, I'm ...
Taking a stand: GOP Delivers a Conservative Platform
Sep 08, 2008; Anonymous ... From immigration and abortion to Iraq and energy In a front-page story in last week's HUMAN EVENTS, long-time conservative activist Donald Devine reported that the 2008 Republican platform is a vast improvement over the 2004 version. Here is a selection of excerpted highlights from this ...
Capital Briefs
Sep 08, 2008; Anonymous ... * PALIN PROPHETS: Of the many participants in HUMAN EVENTS' recent survey of national conservative leaders about who should be John McCain's running mate (See HUMAN EVENTS, August 25.) only two had Sarah Palin on their list of top three vice presidential favorites: radio commentator Mark Levin ...
The Best Man Turned Out To Be A Woman
Sep 08, 2008; Coulter, Ann ... John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, as his running mate finally gave Republicans a reason to vote for him - a reason, that is, other than B. Hussein Obama. The media are hopping mad about McCain's vice presidential selection, but they're really furious over at MSNBC ....
Married Liberals With Children
Sep 08, 2008; Jeffrey, Terence P ... Suddenly, the liberal establishment is earnestly interested in traditional family life, and there is a good - if cynical - reason for this. When Michelle Obama, a Harvard Law grad, appeared at the Democratic convention, she did not come a Ia Hillary Clinton, who bragged when her husband ...
An Asymmetric Campaign
Sep 08, 2008; Babbin, Jed ... War metaphors are the bane of presidential politics. Pundits love them, but campaign managers use them at their candidates' peril. To win an election, the goal is not to kill the opponent but to convince the voters that he's not the choice they should make. The real parallel between war ...
The Least of Michelle's Brothers Get the Door
Sep 08, 2008; De Pasquale, Lisa ... Barack Obama says we have "an obligation" to fix the current health-care system. In his plan, "no American will be turned away." Michelle Obama disagrees. While an executive at the University of Chicago Medical Center, she developed the hospital's Urban Health Initiative, a program to refer ...
A Hurricane Tale of Two Governors
Sep 08, 2008; Crouere, Jeff ... Three years ago. South Louisiana was in complete disarray. As Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, people were dying, politicians were bewildered, and police were abandoning their posts. It was mass confusion in New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina swamped the city and the levees were breached in ...
Islamic law comes to the Phoenix Airport
Sep 08, 2008; Spencer, Robert ... Score another victory for the stealth jihad: At Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport, the janitorial firm GCA Services recently instituted a new uniform that featured pants. But 30 Somali Muslim women who work for GSA Services protested: Up to that point they had been allowed to wear ...
Coleman vs. Franken
Sep 08, 2008; Anonymous ... Minnesota's U.S. Senate Race In the popular film Man of the Year, Robin Williams portrayed Tom Dobbs. host of a hit late-night television show and one of the funniest men Jn America. On a lark. Dobbs decides to run for President. The comic's acerbic wit and penchant for skewering ...
English vs. Dahlkemper
Sep 08, 2008; Anonymous ... Pennsylvania's 3rd District The race for Congress in Pennsylvania's 3rd District (Erie) is another example of what happens when the Democratic National Campaign Committee (DCCC) finds itself with a 7-to-1 money advantage over its Republican counterpart and congressional "wannabes" smell ...
Musgrave vs. Markey
Sep 08, 2008; Anonymous ... Colorado's 4th U.S. House District One of the easiest ways for a member of Congress to risk losing his or her district is for that member to be forthright and outspoken on issues. The lawmaker who muffles any clear philosophy and hugs the middle of the road can frequently nail down ...
How to End the Drilling Moratorium
Sep 08, 2008; Darling, Brian ... Your Inside Report From Capitol Hill For years, Congress has banned oil and natural gas drilling on most of America's Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). On October I, that ban, along with one that forbids the extraction and development of oil shale in the Mountain West, will expire ....
Top 10 Democratic Attacks on Obama
Sep 08, 2008; Anonymous ... 1 "Shame on you, Barack Obama. ... Enough with the speeches and the big rallies and then using tactics that are right out of Karl Rove's playbook." -HILLARY CLINTON, Feb. 2, 2008, speech 2 "This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen." -BILL CLINTON, Jan. 8, ...
Gizzi on Politics
Sep 08, 2008; Gizzi, John ... Convention Diary St. Paul, Minn.-Once John McCain announced his choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate the Friday before the Republican National Convention opened, there really was no suspense left to the quadrennial party conclave. In what has become a pattern in recent ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Sep 08, 2008; Anonymous ... 1. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin of Alaska is one of three Republican governors who are women. Can you name the other two? 2. Before Palin, who was the last governor to be the vice presidential nominee of either major party? 3. Gov. Palin is 44 years old ....
Conservative Forum
Sep 08, 2008; Anonymous ... All correspondence for this feature should be addressed to Conservative Forum, HUMAN EVEMTS, One Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001 (e-mail: editors@HumanEvents.com). Letters to the editor intended for publication must be concise (300 words or less) and preferably limited to one ...
Conservative Resurgence at RNC May Change Party
Sep 01, 2008; Steel, Shawn ... Movement conservatives are dominating Republican National Committee elections throughout the country, and this conservative resurgence might portend a much-needed philosophical realignment of the Republican Party's largest campaign and fundraising organization. In the past six months alone, ...