Holtz-Eakin: McCain helped create BlackBerry  —  Asked what work John McCain did as Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that helped him understand the financial markets, the candidate's top economic adviser wielded visual evidence: his BlackBerry.  —  “He did this,” Douglas Holtz-Eakin …

Fiorina: Palin Doesn't Have Experience To Run A Major Company  —  Carly Fiorina, a key surrogate for John McCain on economic issues, said on Tuesday that Sarah Palin does not have the experience needed to run a major company like the one that Fiorina formerly headed.

MCCAIN, SOCIAL SECURITY PRIVATIZATION, AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS.  —  I sort of buried this in a previous post, but it's worth drawing out.  Today, John McCain said, “Wall Street has betrayed us.  They've broken the social contract between capitalism and the average citizen and the worker.

Cost And Coverage Implications Of The McCain Plan To Restructure Health Insurance  —  Achieving John McCain's vision would radically transform the  —  U.S. health insurance landscape, with negligible gains in  —  ABSTRACT:  —  Senator John McCain's (R-AZ) health plan would eliminate …

What is truly frightening about Sarah Palin  —  TEL AVIV - It was in the taxicab this morning that it finally struck me about Sarah Palin.  —  I get it.  I get that millions of Americans have a crying need for someone to stand up and say the things that Sarah Palin has been telling them.

Gallup Daily: Presidential Contest Remains a Dead Heat  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The Sept. 13-15 Gallup Poll Daily tracking update shows John McCain (47%) and Barack Obama (46%) locked in a close contest when registered voters are asked for whom they would vote if the election were held today.

Palin to Meet Foreign Leaders at U.N.  —  Monica Langley reports on the presidential race.  —  Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will meet with foreign leaders next week at the United Nations, a move to boost her foreign-policy credentials, a Republican strategist said.

The Case Against David Freddoso  —  Via our Media Blog, I checked out the Obama campaign's alleged factsheet on Freddoso.  Its accusations against him are almost all either false or trivial.  —  The first three accusations are all false.  —  Claim 1 concerns Obama's friendship with unrepentant terrorists: DF is right.

The Real Culprits In This Meltdown  —  Big Government: Barack Obama and Democrats blame the historic financial turmoil on the market.  But if it's dysfunctional, Democrats during the Clinton years are a prime reason for it.  —  Read More: Business & Regulation

Russia halts trading after 17% share price fall  —  By Catherine Belton and Charles Clover in Moscow and Rachel Morarjee in London  —  Russian shares suffered their steepest one-day fall in more than a decade on Tuesday, losing up to 20 per cent, as a sharp slide in oil prices …

Why Experience Matters  —  Philosophical debates arise at the oddest times, and in the heat of this election season, one is now rising in Republican ranks.  The narrow question is this: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be vice president?  Most conservatives say yes, on the grounds that something …

Pro-Lifers And Amniocentesis: Some Questions  —  An interesting debate has been going on out of the media limelight.  Sarah Palin's decision earlier this year to have an amniocentesis to determine if her unborn child had Down Syndrome is not uncontroversial among pro-lifers.

Over The Dead Bodies ... Again  —  It is mere months after Democrats won the election on a promise to defend America's middle class.  The nation demands action to address burgeoning health care and environmental crises.  But somehow, the first significant initiative the newly empowered Democratic Party …

Obama's Foul Weather Friends  —  The lack of media interest in the role of former domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn in Democratic nominee Barack Obama's political ascent in Chicago is one of the most remarkable aspects of the 2008 presidential campaign.

McCain Spokesman Told Off On All Networks  —  Congratulations to the John McCain campaign, which has now officially been told off on all three big cable news networks!  Attached is a video of MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell taking some hard swings at McCain's sacrificial spokesman, Tucker Bounds, about campaign lying Monday.

Palin 47%, Biden 44% in Make-believe Presidential Match-up  —  Sarah Palin bests Joseph Biden 47% to 44% in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up for the presidency, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey (see crosstabs).  —  Just over half of voters view …

Five former U.S. state secretaries urge Iran talks  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five former U.S. secretaries of state said on Monday the next American administration should talk to Iran, a foe President George W. Bush has generally shunned as part of an “axis of evil.”

Sarah Palin Said to Have a Tanning Bed in Alaska Governor's Mansion  —  Tanning Beds Provide Much Needed Vitamin D in Northern Latitudes  —  WASHINGTON - Today the Indoor Tanning Association addressed rumors that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who was recently chosen as Presidential Nominee …