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Washington, DC – A broad coalition of conservation groups today called on the Bush administration to halt efforts to weaken the Endangered Species Act. To date, more than 100,000 citizens have come out in opposition of a proposed rule change that would weaken the safety net of habitat protections that have helped protect and recover […]

When Barack Obama responded to the Ohio plumber who didn’t want his taxes raised that Obama wanted to “spread the wealth around,” I wanted to tell him to spread his own wealth around. It was in any event a rare moment of candor on the part of Senator Obama.
Obama all but told […]

Our occasional correspondent Joel Mowbray (jdmowbra@erols.com) has filed this report:

To get a sense of just how bad things are for John McCain, consider this: Shortly after he and Sarah Palin arrived at New York City’s Grand Hyatt Hotel last night for a major fundraiser, only nine left-wing protesters were assembled in front of the entrance […]

At one level, the connection between Jeremiah Wright (Barack Obama’s spiritual mentor) and William Ayers (Obama’s political ally) is apparent. After all, Ayers set out to bring “America’s chickens home to roost” decades before Wright applied that phrase to 9/11.
But now Stanley Kurtz has demonstrated a more concrete connection, and one […]

Barack Obama is asked about the massive, well-documented voter registration fraud that is being perpetrated by ACORN across the battleground states. He begins by lying about his relationship with ACORN. Here is what he said before ACORN hit the headlines and became inconvenient for his campaign:
I’ve been fighting alongside Acorn on issues you […]

The poll data these days are pretty universally bleak for Republicans, so let’s take note of the only bright spot I’ve seen lately, via Jim Geraghty:
Karl Rove, a moment ago on Fox News: “Ronald Reagan was behind at this point in the 1980 election… There were doubts as to whetehr or not Reagan was up […]