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Osama Warns “Each US State” To Vote Against Bush

Power Line points out that the Middle East Research Institute has shown that, whether purposefully or not, Osama’s recent tape was mistranslated in one very important respect: The tape of Osama bin Laden that was aired on Al-Jazeera on Friday, October 29th included a specific threat to “each U.S. state,” designed to influence the outcome […]

CBS Finds Those Who Have Already Voted Favor Bush

A new CBS News Poll finds that Bush leads Kerry among those who have already voted by 51% to 43%. Among those who have not yet voted, Bush leads 49% to 46%, up from a Bush lead of 47% to 45% two weeks ago. UPDATE [7:30PM] The just-released NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finds a stastically […]

Half-Cocked Kerry? Lockhart Says So

The Bush campaign has relentlessly criticized Kerry for saying and doing anything to get elected, for making political self-interest his supreme and guiding principle. (Flip flops? Those weren’t flip flops. Kerry has been perfectly consistent; he has remained true to the principle of doing or saying whatever seems good for Kerry at the time.) Now […]

A Truly Scary Prediction

Jeffrey Rosen of The New Republic tries to reassure (I guess) supporters of both Bush and Kerry that if the other guy wins the Supreme Court sky will not fall. In fact, what is at stake in the election is not the future of Roe v. Wade, school prayer, or any of the culture-war issues […]

Liberal Bias? Kerry Sec. of State InWaiting Criticizes New York Times

According to a column in today’s Los Angeles Times by Max Boot, Richard Holbrooke has complained that his quote in the New York Times Magazine that “war on terror” is just a metaphor “was taken out of context.”

By George, I Think I’ve Got It!

FINALLY, I now understand John Kerry’s position on Iraq: Saddam never had any weapons of mass destruction, but George Bush carelessly and incompetently lost them.

You Could Call It Reverse Diversity

From the St. Petersburg Times, quoted by RealClearPolitics: But for all the anecdotal evidence of heavy African-American turnout, there are hints that Kerry might not be doing as strongly as he needs to be. At a John Edwards rally in St. Petersburg on Saturday, white people held “African-Americans for Kerry-Edwards” placards.

Let Us Not Forget Race …

I am not a single-issue voter. And if I were, in this election my single issue would have to be national security. It is thus altogether fitting and proper that most of the rhetoric in this campaign, and especially in this last week, revolves around the war on terror (or the not-war, which is how […]

Hispanics Don’t Fit

The Census Bureau has never known how to classify Hispanics, and they still don’t. As reported today in the New York Times, it has provoked a new controversy by proposing to drop from the next census the option of checking “some other race,” an option chosen by 42% of Hispanics in the 2000 census. Never […]

Virginia Determined To End “Legal Discrimination”

Starting Monday employees of the University of Virginia, complying with instructions from Gov. Mark Warner (D) last summer, must get a written price quote from a minority or woman-owned business for all purchases except for over-the-counter. How to tell which firms qualify? The state has a database of certified minority and woman-owned businesses. The article […]