Trade You a Clinton for an Obama!

Okay, admittedly not real hard news, but Topps has recently created presidential trading cards that are going for big bucks on eBay. One of the Obama cards sold for $3,122 and one of the Clinton cards for $1,325. McCain’s is up to $1,200.
Why the high prices? You’re only going to find these cards as [...]

Rush Limbaugh backs Hillary Clinton?

Conservative talk show radio host Rush Limbaugh has been urging Republican voters over the past week to cross over and vote for Hillary Clinton in tomorrow’s Texas primary:
“I’m asking people to cross over, and if they can stomach it and I know it’s a difficult thing to do, vote for Clinton. …it will sustain this [...]

Obama Doublespeak on NAFTA? Canada Says No

According to a leak of a recent memo, Barack Obama’s recent campaigning in Ohio against NAFTA has been all part of “political positioning.” The memo was reportedly written by a Canadian official reporting Sen. Obama’s reassurances from his senior economic adviser Austan Goolsbee.
Noting anxiety among many U.S. domestic audiences about the U.S. economic outlook, Goolsbee [...]

US Airstrike in Somalia

 
The US hit the Somali town of Dobley Monday morning in an airstrike against Islamic extremist terrorist suspects. Eight people were injured and some were still trapped in the ruined buildings when at least two bombs were dropped.
“It was a deliberate, precise strike against a known terrorist and his associates,” said an anonymous US military [...]

Week in Review: The News Stories that Mattered for 2/24-3/1

Welcome back for the dish on the biggest stories of the past week. This coming week should be an important one too–stay tuned for details on tomorrow’s Super Tuesday Revisited.
Dmitri Medvedev Becomes Russian President:
Putin’s Presidency Ends, Not His Rule
Medvedev to Take Russian Presidency
The Fight for Texas and Ohio:
Clinton, Obama vie for [...]

Why public financing in November won’t matter as much as you think

Earlier we talked about how Sen. John McCain’s calling out of Sen. Obama on the latter’s promise to commit to public financing in the general election if he were the nominee and came to the conclusion that it was a win-win for McCain and a lose-lose for Obama. While I agree, if Obama turns down [...]