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JOSHUA BROWN / LIFE DURING WARTIME SPECIAL / Remembering Dick Cheney
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Tagged Cartoon, Dick Cheney, Iraq War, Joshua Brown, Life During Wartime, Rag Bloggers, Vice President
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Dick Cheney : A Political Madness
Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog. (Thanks to Hieronymus Bosch for the look into Dick’s Dark Brain.) Dick Cheney is sadly childlike in his petulant public outbursts. There is a mad gleam in his eye as he insists … Continue reading
Sarah Louise : A Reality Check List
Sarah Louise, cover girl: Easy to look at, but…‘Eight years of one socially inept moron has caused enough international cringing wouldn’t you think?’By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / October 22, 2008 Sarah Louise, as she would be called … Continue reading
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Tagged November Election, Pentecostals, Religious Right, Sarah Palin, Vice President
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The Poetry of Sarah Palin
Recent works by the Republican vice presidential candidate.By Hart Seely / October 1, 2008 See some of Sarah Palin’s finest work, Below. It’s been barely six weeks since the arctic-fresh voice of Alaskan poet Sarah Heath Palin burst upon the … Continue reading
Team McCain and the Trooper : Attempt to Derail Palin Probe
Alaska state trooper Mike Wooten tells CNN he never drank while driving his patrol car during inverview.Obstruction of Justice Dept: McCain allies seek to avoid ‘October surprise’ in ‘Troopergate’ investigationBy Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball / September 5, 2008 Key … Continue reading
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Tagged McCain, Political Scandal, Presidential Campaign, Sarah Palin, Troopergate, Vice President
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Postcards About Palin : What Some Alaskans Say About Sarah
‘Alaskans in general do not give a rat’s ass about anything outside of Alaska’By Mariannn G. Wizard / The Rag Blog / September 3, 2008 While working in Alaska in 2004, I met people from all of AK’s many political … Continue reading
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Direct From Wasilla : Whassup With Sarah…
Speaking of Sarah Palin : From one who knows herBy Anne Kilkenny / The Rag Blog / September 3, 2008 So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the last two days that I … Continue reading
Sarah Palin : Soldiers in Iraq on ‘Task From God’
I find this very, very disturbing. Alyssa Burgin / The Rag Blog Sarah Palin, her church and her messianic world viewBy Nico Pitney and Sam Stein / September 2, 2008 Three months before she was thrust into the national political … Continue reading
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Tagged Evangelical Christians, Presidential Campaign, Religious Right, Sarah Palin, Vice President
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Disclosures on Palin Raise Questions on Vetting Process
Illustration by Bromley.‘The questions swirling around Ms. Palin on the first day of the Republican National Convention… brought anxiety to Republicans’ By Elisabeth Bumiller / September 1, 2008 ST. PAUL — A series of disclosures about Gov. Sarah Palin, Senator … Continue reading
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Tagged McCain, Political Scandal, Republican Convention, Republican Party, Sarah Palin, Vice President
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Gov. Palin on Iraq : Hard to Tell What She Thinks
Team McCain. Photo by Mark Lyons/EPA.‘I’ve been so focused on state government, I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq’By Mark Benjamin / August 29, 2008 Presumably, John McCain would only select a candidate for vice president who … Continue reading
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What is McCain Thinking? One Alaskan’s Perspective
Lovely Downtown Wasilla, Alaska… Sarah Palin, former mayor.Sarah Palin for Veep: ‘Is this a joke?’By AK Muckraker / August 29, 2008 ANCHORAGE, Alaska — “Is this a joke?” That seemed to be the question du jour when my phone started … Continue reading
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MICHAEL MEEROPOL / POLITICAL COMMENTARY / Vice President Vance says people who fought in the Civil War have a larger claim to citizenship than people living here today
J.D. Vance by DonkeyHotey. This caricature of J.D. Vance was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Gage Skidmore’s Flickr photostream. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / August 5, 2025 The following is an expanded version of a … Continue reading →