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News & Politics
Disturbing Sarah Palin Photo Surfaces; McCain Defends Palin’s Obscene Hand Gesture
After this reader-submitted photo was published in the Anchorage Daily News, featuring Sarah Palin surrounded by high school boys and possibly flashing the peace sign, the McCain campaign released this strong statement: The left-wing liberal news media seeks to belittle Sarah Palin’s character by implying that she was exhibiting the peace sign. In fact, she was merely showing her allegiance to an Alaskan youth gang called Virginity Now, whose official motto is “Abstinence until marriage, unless your boyfriend is a hot high school hockey star.” To hint that Sarah Palin is a proponent of peace is flat-out wrong and,...
Amber Alert
Update: Saraj Unir Davenport has been found safe and in good condition with family members. Police say the missing child report was fraudulent. Read the story here. Police in North Carolina have issued an Amber Alert for Saraj Unir Davenport, who disappeared yesterday from a flea market parking lot in Smithfield, NC, while his mother was loading groceries into the car. Full story here. Tipline: (919) 934-2121.
fallout
Veterans of Bush’s war are committing suicide by the hundreds each month, but, apparently, our government doesn’t believe they really deserve health care. From the Chronicle today. More than 120 veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq commit suicide every week while the government stalls in granting returning troops the mental health treatment and benefits to which they are entitled, veterans advocates told a federal judge Monday in San Francisco…He said veterans are committing suicide at the rate of 18 a day – a number acknowledged by a VA official in a Dec. 15 e-mail – and the...
Cindy McCain / Vicki Iseman
Here’s John McCain’s press conference about the Vicki Iseman allegations. Watch his wife Cindy, particularly at 7:20, when a reporter asks whether his aides asked him to stop seeing Iseman, and again at 9:34 when a reporter asks if he has seen Iseman, and at 13:25 when asked when he last saw Iseman. She looks pretty interested in hearing his answers, and her posture and facial expression visibly change when these questions come up. I don’t care if McCain slept with Iseman (he says he did not, and Cindy says she trusts him), only whether a close relationship with...
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