At 8pm tonight, C-SPAN will be airing the 2008 Clash of the Titans debate from last Friday at Regent University (where I got my Masters apparently worthless Masters). 

The topic is the presidential election and panelists include Steve Forbes, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Donna Brazile, Geraldine Ferraro, and Alan Colmes. 

Check in if you want. 

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Mark Levin interviewed Gov. Sarah Palin on his show tonight. 

It was short, but worth the listen.

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I hate to hijack the blog, but here we go. 

I was wondering if anyone knew of any legislation in the 110th Congress that deals with NASA funding, Yucca Mountain (as it relates to nuclear waste), and anything to do with Social Security or retirement issues. 

I'm going to poke around Thomas later, but if anyone has any House bill numbers on anything like this, please drop it in the comments. 

Thanks!

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Here's how to answer "Did you know the Annenberg Challenge was funded by a Republican and included many Republican leaders?"

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Ben Domenech thinks that this means that Palin is already running for 2012.  If so, good for her.  She's breaking free of McCain's handlers and it looks like she's even annoying them a bit:

On Sunday night, she twice took questions from reporters, the first time on an airport tarmac without her press staff’s knowledge.

After landing in Colorado Springs late Sunday, Ms. Palin marched over to a local television crew and began answering questions on camera, sending the traveling press corps sprinting in pursuit, and her press staff scrambling.

“Get Tracey,” one campaign aide barked into his headset, calling for Tracey Schmitt, Ms. Palin’s ever-watchful spokeswoman, who rushed over to supervise the impromptu press conference. (Ms. Schmitt, looking distressed, tried several times to cut it off with a terse “Thank you!” in between questions, to no avail.)

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What we were saying ages ago, Charlie Black, warning McCain that Palin was his only chance at winning the election,

“I’m told that Charlie Black told McCain, ‘If you pick anyone else, you’re going to lose. But if you pick Palin you may win.’ ”

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Remember, Joe Biden always stands up for the little guy, even when he's making fun of him.  Here he is talking to Jay Leno(emphasis mine):

Let me put it this way:  I don't know — the neighborhood I grew up, even the neighborhood I live in now, which is a really nice neighborhood, I don't know many plumbers who are making $250,000 a year and worried about it.  We're kind of worried about Joe the fireman, Joe the policeman, Joe the real plumber with a license.

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Please don't install Gov. Palin as RNC Chairwoman if Obama is elected in November.

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A few weeks ago I said that I had decided I needed to read Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals."  And yes, I have been way too lazy to actually do that. 

Well, on Mark Levin's show today, he read sections of "Rules for Radicals" and then presented them alongside statements by both Barack and Michelle Obama. 

That part occurs in the first hour, but the whole thing is worth a listen.  (The audio is here...it's the October 14, 2008 show.)

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Christopher Buckley has resigned from National Review.  Says Buckley,

When he offered his resignation to the magazine’s editors, “I was sort of hoping for, ‘Well, let’s think about it,’ ” Buckley said. “But to paraphrase Ronald Reagan, I didn’t leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me.”

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The people at Pete Olson's campaign have created a great site tracking the positions on Nick Lampson's (Texas-22) campaign page and comparing it to his record in Congress.  What they've found is that when Lampson say he support's something, it's a highly nuanced claim indeed. 

For example, while he told a constituent this summer that he had consistently voted for opening ANWR and the outer continental shelf for drilling, his record shows that he voted against both of these issues eleven times. 

The site even has audio of Rep. Lampson ranting against oil companies. 

So, if you're in Texas' 22nd Congressional District, or know someone who is, make sure they explore this site.  Lampson's constituents deserve to know Lampson's actual record in Congress, instead of the pretend record he posts on his website. 

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Here are the prepared remarks from her rally in Johnstown, Penn. today.  A sampling:

It’s hard to think of many issues that could possibly be more important than who is protected in law and who isn’t – who is granted life and who is denied it. So when our opponent, Senator Obama, speaks about questions of life, I listen very carefully.

I listened when he defended his unconditional support for unlimited abortions. He said that a woman shouldn’t have to be – quote – “punished with a baby.” He said that right here in Johnstown –“punished with a baby” – and it’s about time we called him on it. The more I hear from Senator Obama, the more I understand why he is so vague and evasive on the subject. Americans need to see his record for what it is. It’s not negative or mean-spirited to talk to about his record. Whatever party you belong to, there are facts you need to know.

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Rick Moran says that criticizing Obama for his connections with Ayers is an "exercise in futility", because the voters don't care, because the economy is all that is on their minds.  Yes and no.  If people are hoping that Ayers is going to be Willie Horton or the Swift Boats, they probably are deluding themselves...admittedly stranger things have happened, but I'm guessing it isn't going to happen.  It's also not an "exercise in futility" either. 

Odds are, we aren't going to see a singular successful line of attack.  This is going to have to be won bit by bit, person by person.  We have to do whatever we can to make people aware of what Obama is, and how radical he is.  Elections in the modern era are often won simply on how likable a candidate is, and Obama, in the shallowest sense, is likable.  Not likable for us, because we know what he actually is, but for others, the first guy in this parody is a good example of that principle at work,

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