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Good news: Someone in the Justice Department took the Election Day intimidation tactics of the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia seriously. The DOJ filed an injunction today against the NBPP bullies over their billyclub-wielding thuggishness at a Philly polling place, which was captured on video: Remember?

'Whit', my father, my hero, is 92 years old. A retired electrician, a committed Christian, a devoted husband and father..has never missed voting in an election since he turned 21.. 71 long years of enjoying, embracing the responsibility and what he calls the privilege given to him by his beloved country, the United States of America. He worked hard all his life, without complaint.. walking miles a day during the Great Depression in search of work to feed and house his wife and baby, my oldest sister. He taught us work ethics, personal responsibility, love of God, of Country, of...

WASHINGTON -- It's a nightmare scenario for Democrats - their nominee Barack Obama winning the popular vote while Republican John McCain ekes out an Electoral College victory. Sure, McCain trails in every recent national poll. Sure, surveys show that Obama leads in the race to reach the requisite 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. Sure, chances of Republicans retaining the White House are remote. But some last-minute state polls show the GOP nominee closing the gap in key states - Republican turf of Virginia, Florida and Ohio among them, and Democratic-leaning Pennsylvania, too. If the tightening polls are correct...

Barack Obama’s campaign mantra of “spreading the wealth” by squeezing more tax dollars from higher-income Americans and putting them into the hands of the less productive is a popular theme among his West Virginia admirers in this region. Supporters agreed at a Beckley rally Saturday with the Democratic presidential hopeful’s assertion that only the “selfish” are reluctant to pay more taxes and sacrifice for the benefit of low-income earners. “Take from the rich and give to the poor,” reflected Eddie Steelman of Beckley, who defined the rich as those earning millions. “It’s a new change that’s coming on. I believe...

John McCain's real problem is that if it is announced on Tuesday that he has won the election for the presidency of the United States, nobody will believe it. Every indicator - including popular sentiment worldwide - is against him. The huge crowds - some standing in the rain to listen to Barack Obama; the millions of poor people's dollars donated to the Obama campaign, the hundreds of thousands of volunteers for Obama, the hundreds of songs written for Obama, the number of early voters who say they have voted for Obama, and finally, the public opinion polls have embedded...

This is the text and video. The video is running slow at the time of this post. I think that cspan is bogged down. I will change it if they post it to you tube. This was one of the best political speeches I've ever seen. This woman attacked the dems over and over, and did so without stretching the truth even slightly. She will make a GREAT VP.

Dear Sarah, tonight, during your speech, do not mention nor even hint at the MSM attacks upon you. If you do the election will have been lost. If you speak over the top of thier attacks you will belittle them and deservedly so, and they will then fly into a frenzie the likes which has never been seen before. If you do mention, hint or allude to the attacks, you validate them, make the MSM your masters, and turn the conversation over to them. Please, if you have to adjust your speech do it, do not give mention to the...

Can Hillary Clinton be sued out of becoming president? Her husband, after all, won two terms and the Constitution forbids a president from serving three terms. There's no legal precedent before the Supreme Court claiming that a married couple cannot serve four total terms (16 years) as president but it has never been challenged either. Given that there is no term limits for being a U.S. Senator and women office holders were rare before the past 20 years, there would seem to be no Court decision to answer this issue. There have been spousal office holders who have followed after...

Thjis is the video of Fred announcing his candidacy from his web site to go with the Jay Leno video I just posted.

A political primer By Burt Prelutsky Monday, August 13, 2007 Nothing that I’ve written recently has stirred up the hornets quite as much as a piece in which I declared my support for Rudy Giuliani. I can’t say I was too shocked. After all, aside from religion and, in certain strange circles, TV soap operas, there’s little that Americans feel more passionately about than partisan politics. Frankly, the only thing about the response that surprised me was that I was mainly raked over the coals by Ron Paul’s disciples. I barely heard from Fred Thompson’s fans and not at...

Is it just me, or did the New York Times just drop a bombshell? By the headline of its editorial this morning, Wrong Way Out of Iraq, and its introductory paragraphs -- about how the British model of withdrawing to bases in Basra hasn't worked, I was sure we were headed for a demand for total, rapid withdrawal. When suddenly came this conclusion: The United States cannot walk away from the new international terrorist front it created in Iraq. It will need to keep sufficient forces and staging points in the region to strike effectively against terrorist sanctuaries there or...

The USA Today/Gallup poll released yesterday morning showed - for the first time - that Barack Obama has pulled ahead of Hillary Clinton in a national survey. The numbers were: Obama 30%, Clinton 29%. According to USA Today's Susan Page: "The survey of 310 Democrats and 160 independents who 'lean' Democratic, taken Friday through Sunday, has a margin of error of +/- 5 percentage points" which means that Hillary might be ahead by as many as nine percentage points, or she might be as far behind as 11. Statistically insignificant as the Obama lead might be, it is exactly what...

Bloomberg's secret White House bid By Toby Harnden, US Editor, in Washington  Last Updated: 9:25pm BST 11/05/2007 Toby Harnden's blog: President Bloomberg's plan Profile: Michael BloombergMichael Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman and mayor of New York, is secretly building the financial and organisational foundations of an audacious third-party presidential candidacy that would transform the 2008 race for the White House.   A recent poll gave Mr Bloomberg a 73 per cent approval rating among New Yorkers “He wants to do this, he thinks he could win it and he thinks he could be a great president,” said a source closely connected...

WASHINGTON — Mayor Giuliani's presidential bid has become a tale of two campaigns. One track focuses on the issues he wants to discuss — fiscal conservatism and the war on terror, chiefly — while the other deals with the issues that he would rather avoid: abortion, gun control, and gay rights. Yesterday, the talk was abortion. Following the disclosure that Mr. Giuliani personally donated money to a leading abortion rights group, the former mayor gave his most expansive explanation yet of his position on abortion. While reiterating his personal opposition to the practice, he couched it as a matter of...

WASHINGTON (April 26) - Democratic presidential candidates on Wednesday rebuked Republican rival Rudy Giuliani for suggesting that the United States could face another major terrorist attack if a Democrat is elected in 2008. The former New York mayor did not back down. Illinois Sen. Barack Obama said Giuliani, who was in office on Sept. 11, 2001, should not be making the terrorist threat into "the punchline of another political attack." "Rudy Giuliani today has taken the politics of fear to a new low and I believe Americans are ready to reject those kind of politics," Obama said in a statement....

Only a few months ago, the vast majority of black elected officials in New York were expected to support the presidential candidacy of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. But no longer. In a series of interviews, a significant number of those officials now say they are undecided about whether to back Mrs. Clinton or one of her main rivals for the Democratic nomination, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, the only black politician in the race. The officials described themselves as impressed with the strength of Mr. Obama’s campaign in recent weeks, saying it reflected a grass-roots enthusiasm for Mr. Obama that...

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Rudolph Giuliani launched into a California campaign speech recently with an opening line the crowd surely didn't expect -- his husky-voiced impersonation of Don Corleone in "The Godfather." "Thank youse all very much for invitin' me here tuh-day, to this meeting of the families from different parts'a California," Giuliani said, recycling his old New York gag to laughter and scattered applause. Then this week, Giuliani used the reference again, invoking the mob's code of honor to explain why reporters should lay off his wife. "I am a candidate. She's a civilian, to use the old Mafia distinction,"...

After the Bush administration and short-lived Republican congress cut-n-run on their conservative base by spending like a drunken Kennedy, defending illegal immigration like Howard Dean counting new Latino voters at the border and fighting the war on terror like they need traitor John Murtha’s approval, some conservatives are looking to cut-n-run from their not-so-conservative party. While an understandable sentiment, real conservatives face their enemies, they don’t run from them. According to third party supporters, when unwanted intruders break into my home and threaten my family, I should give them my house and go build a new one elsewhere. But where...

WASHINGTON - Late last year, Hillary Rodham Clinton's inner circle hoped she might do as well among African-American primary voters as Bill Clinton did in 1992, when he won 70 percent of their votes in Southern states. But along came Barack Obama. These days, the most sanguine Clinton insiders say their candidate can capture 40 to 50 percent of the black vote against the Illinois senator. Outsiders are less optimistic - and say she'd better be trying to make up for the lost African-American support elsewhere. "It's a matter of keeping Obama below 75 to 80 percent," said Michael Fauntroy,...

JUST hours after Al Gore was fawned over by Leonardo DiCaprio and a host of other Hollywood luminaries at this week's Academy Awards ceremony, Hillary Clinton's top advisers got together to consider how best to handle what was threatening to become a tidal wave of pressure for Gore to run for the US presidency. After careful consideration, they let it be known that they were going to continue to closely monitor Gore's weight. Several journalists were briefed on this by a "senior Clinton official" who said the Clinton team was on the lookout for any evidence that Gore is about...