To Avoid Being ‘Depressed,’ Palin Skimps on Campaign News  —  GREENSBORO, N.C. — No wonder GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin harbors such hostility toward the mainstream media: her staff imposes limits on her access to it.  —  During a fundraiser here that raised $800,000 last night …

Polls Cause Campaigns to Change Their Itineraries  —  Confronting an increasingly bleak electoral map, top aides to Senator John McCain said Thursday that they were searching for a “narrow-victory scenario” and would focus in the final weeks on a dwindling number of states, using mailings …

A Liberal Supermajority  —  Get ready for ‘change’ we haven't seen since 1965, or 1933.  —  If the current polls hold, Barack Obama will win the White House on November 4 and Democrats will consolidate their Congressional majorities, probably with a filibuster-proof Senate or very close to it.

Palin's e-mails?  That'll be $15 million  —  Even at that price, many records won't be available until after the election  —  Sarah Palin's office has discovered a renewable resource to bring millions of dollars into Alaska's economy: the governor's e-mails.

Barack Obama for President  —  THE NOMINATING process this year produced two unusually talented and qualified presidential candidates.  There are few public figures we have respected more over the years than Sen. John McCain.  Yet it is without ambivalence that we endorse Sen. Barack Obama for president.

The Boss, the Piano Man and the Candidate  —  Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel were well into their act - playing at the same time, the same stage - when Senator Barack Obama arrived late Thursday night at the Hammerstein Ballroom.  —  Mr. Obama waited in the wings for nearly an hour before taking the stage.

Thinking About Obama  —  We've been watching Barack Obama for two years now, and in all that time there hasn't been a moment in which he has publicly lost his self-control.  This has been a period of tumult, combat, exhaustion and crisis.  And yet there hasn't been a moment when he has displayed rage …

Let's Get Fiscal  —  The Dow is surging!  No, it's plunging!  No, it's surging!  No, it's ...  Nevermind.  While the manic-depressive stock market is dominating the headlines, the more important story is the grim news coming in about the real economy.  It's now clear that rescuing …

BREAKING NEWS: ANGRY FRANKEN CONFRONTS COLEMAN AFTER DEBATE; MRS. FRANKEN RUNS ON STAGE TO GET FRANKEN AWAY FROM COLEMAN  —  UPDATE #2: The video starts just as Mrs. Franken has rushed to the stage.  The camera is fixed, so we don't see Mrs. Franken until she gets to the stage.

LETTERMAN CONFRONTS MCCAIN ON LIDDY.... John McCain recently annoyed David Letterman quite a bit, blowing off a scheduled interview to talk to Katie Couric.  The “Late Show” host has been mocking McCain, rather mercilessly, ever since.  —  Hoping to make amends, McCain appeared on Letterman's show …

18 days — Colin Powell on ‘Meet’ on Sunday  —  BREAKING — President Bush speaks on the nation's “serious financial crisis” this morning at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: “The federal government has responded to this crisis with systematic and aggressive measures to protect the financial security of the American people.

Link between child porn and Muslim terrorists discovered in police raids  —  Paedophile websites are being used to pass information between terrorists  —  A link between terrorism plots and hardcore child pornography is becoming clear after a string of police raids in Britain and across the Continent …