Alex Chediak

As a guest today on the Dennis Prager show, talk show host James Dobson pledged his vote for McCain - Palin. … [Read more...] about Dobson Pledges Vote for McCain – Palin

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The National Review Editors say it well:By picking Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has wowed the public and enthused the Right. He has reinforced some of his winning themes — that he has the mindset of an outsider and a fighter against corruption. He has also reinforced his appeal as the candidate more in touch with traditional values on moral issues.They go on to note that the Palin selection means that McCain must carry more of the foreign policy load. (Just fine, IMHO, given that he is particularly passionate about those matters.) Another great line: "They … [Read more...] about National Review on Gov. Sarah Palin

I'm really hoping he picked her (HT: Benjamin). There is conflicting evidence as to her current whereabouts. Palin brings a lot to the ticket. A female conservative, a staunch pro-life activist, someone who has stood up to excesses in government spending, an advocate of off-shore drilling. She could debate Biden if for no other reason than he would look mean. A new face -- which would get the media buzzing about her for days, suppressing (to some degree) the expected bounce for Obama-Biden. I really like her. She brings some inexperience, yes, but McCain has experience aplenty. She is … [Read more...] about McCain – Palin? Would Be Bold!

Charles Krauthammer writes a simply devastating assessment: Barack Obama is an immensely talented man whose talents have been largely devoted to crafting, and chronicling, his own life. Not things. Not ideas. Not institutions. But himself. Nothing wrong or even terribly odd about that, except that he is laying claim to the job of crafting the coming history of the United States. A leap of such audacity is odd. The air of unease at the Democratic convention this week was not just a result of the Clinton psychodrama. The deeper anxiety was that the party was nominating a man of many gifts but … [Read more...] about Barack Obama: The Perfect Stranger

The National Review editors write an excellent article on Barack Obama's association with Bill Ayers, an unrepentant member of a terrorist cell which bombed the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol, various police headquarters, and other targets in the early 1970s. Obama has said Ayers was "just a guy in the neighborhood." Reality: 1. In 1995, Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn hosted a fundraiser that helped launch Obama's career in Chicago politics. 2. Writing in the Chicago Tribune in 1997, Obama called A Kind and Just Parent, Ayers’ polemic on the Chicago court system, “a searing and … [Read more...] about Obama’s Friend, America’s Enemy