By Denis Campbell
The lunatic right fringe of an imploded party seems to be doing all the talking lately. Is anyone listening? Some snippets already working across the Web.
Obama the 1-termer
The guy is 69-days away from Inauguration and already the Right is calling him a 1-term President.
Barone Blunders Badly
A roomful of academics erupted in angry boos [...]

by Charley James
Today is Remembrance Day in Canada - what Americans call Veterans Day - and everything other than retailing and restaurants shuts down tight. Canada treats Remembrance Day much more somberly than do US celebrations. This might be the result of how the British mercilessly used the colonial Canadian army as fodder in both [...]

New York Times Op-Ed Columnist FRANK RICH
ON the morning after a black man won the White House, America’s tears of catharsis gave way to unadulterated joy. 
Our nation was still in the same ditch it had been the day before, but the atmosphere was giddy. We felt good not only because we had breached a racial barrier [...]

by Charley James
The American author and naturalist Terry Tempest Williams once wrote, “The eyes of the future are watching us and they are praying that we learn to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with clasped hands that we might act with restraint, leaving room for the life that is destined to come.”
Described [...]

by Charley James
So much for the “special relationship” between the United States and Great Britain. If it is not in complete tatters, it is fraying badly this morning.
The British Attorney General says he will investigate allegations that a British resident arrested by the US in Pakistan before being “rended” to Morocco, shipped to the black [...]

New York Times Op-Ed 
Screenplay by
Maureen Dowd
Revised third draft
© Oct. 29, 2008
FADE IN:
INT. A HOTEL SUITE — in the middle of the day in the middle of Ohio.
NICOLLE WALLACE, a slender, preppie-looking blonde wearing a string of pearls is pacing and frantically thumbing her BlackBerry. She is a top McCain adviser under STEVE SCHMIDT who has [...]

NY Times Op-Ed Columnist
By FRANK RICH
IT seems like a century ago now, but it was only in 2005 that a National Journal poll of Beltway insiders predicted that George Allen, then a popular Virginia senator, would be the next G.O.P. nominee for president. George who? Allen is now remembered, if at all, as a punch [...]

In this fascinating piece from Mechanix Illustrated published in November of 1968, we see how James R. Berry got so much so right and so much so very, very wrong looking forward to 2008. Remember man had not yet landed on the moon. There was no such thing as touch-tone telephones, computers had vacuum tubes [...]

Salon.com always leaves me smiling. Especially when they validate points made in articles here by Charley and me. You may have heard it before and here is their SPIN…  Guess what? The Conventional Wisdom has blown it again in handicapping Obama vs. McCain in the homestretch. 
By Mike Madden and Walter Shapiro
This has been a campaign [...]

 
by Charley James
Throughout the primary and election campaign, I’ve received lots of smear-mail about Barack Obama. Much of it includes knowingly false statements about him being a Muslim meaning, whether the smear-mail says it openly or not, that he is one step removed from the 19 evil men who crashed planes into the World Trade [...]