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The WSJ Editorial Page Talks, the Market Listens

…below the level when the editorial was written], bought into the Obama rumor, and has been selling some gains on the Obama fact and the Fed easing and Hank Paulson’s…

Fox News Warns

BY CACTUS Fox News Warns What’s with Fox? On their website, they have this piece: Obama to Inherit Economy in Worst Crisis in 70 Years Barack Obama’s presidential election victory…

Compare and Contrast

…to implement most of their other policies. Here are the specific links to the candidates Web sites policy on energy in alphabetical order. McCain Obama McCains preamble: Our nation’s future…

Candidate reactions

hat tip to Movie Guy Here is part of what Presidential candidate Obama said on Friday about the Republican Vice Presidential candidate: Senator Obama called Governor Palin from his campaign…

Polling Margins: The Myth of "Double-Digits"

There is a strange meme in the blogsphere—most recently made in comments here by Movie Guy—that Obama “should have a double-digit lead over McCain at this stage as has been…

Cactus sends a note

by cactus I had some more or less random thoughts: 1. If Obama wins the election, in five or six years expect the folks on the right to blame the…

The Moral Case for Liberalism

…deep underlying principles: Barack Obama. In fact, I think that’s exactly why so many Democrats found Obama’s speech at the DNC so inspiring and exciting – he dared to assert…

Why, Yes! Of Course! The Voters Will Vote to End Social Security, Medicare, Dodd-Frank and the EPA Because the IRS Improperly Hassled Political “Social Welfare” Organizations and the DOJ Issued Sweeping Subpoenas of AP Phone Lines!

…the National Journal. To name two.* Dickerson argues that the Obama administration “is doing a far better job making the case for conservatism than Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, or John…