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Here’s John Podhoretz: The presumption in many quarters is that John McCain knew he had to do something to change the direction of the race because things are going badly for him. I certainly agree that he has not covered himself in glory in the past 10 days. But the data just don’t support this [...]

UPDATE: or see this commentary by Mark Krikorian from 1993! A long excerpt from Stan Liebowitz: The mortgage market was humming along just fine when, in the late 1980s, progressives decided that it needed to be “fixed.” Their complaint: Some ethnic groups got approved for mortgages at lower rates than others. In reality, mortgage lenders [...]

Here’s a typically pathetic race bait by Rep. Alcee Hastings. (CNN) – Rep. Alcee Hastings told an audience of Jewish Democrats Wednesday that they should be wary of Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin because “anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.” That’s really what [...]

George Will is not happy with McCain’s typically populist language regarding the banking crisis. Channeling his inner Queen of Hearts, John McCain furiously, and apparently without even looking around at facts, said Chris Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, should be decapitated. This childish reflex provoked the Wall Street Journal to editorialize that [...]

If you don’t remember Walter Mitty, shame on you. The second article is really more appropro to that than the first, but I liked the first because it is so reminiscint of Al Gore in the 2000 Election: “[Weekly Standard] When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk [...]