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Today, a federal jury found Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) guilty on all seven counts of making false statements on his financial disclosure regarding “$250,000 in home renovations and other gifts he received from an oil contractor.” According to the AP, Stevens “faces up to five years in prison on each count, but under federal sentencing [...]

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Early last week, a reader flagged a report in the online newspaper Narco News which noted an interesting FEC expense filing from the McCain campaign from June. The filing listed expenses for hotels and airline tickets in Singapore and Vietnam — that seemed to correlate with a trip that Cindy McCain took in June to [...]

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Reposted from The Daily Dish by Andrew Sullivan.
I checked the transcript this morning and the biggest bombshell in this campaign so far, in my opinion, is the following section of Bush’s speech:
John McCain’s life is a story of service above self. Forty years ago, in an enemy prison camp, Lieutenant Commander McCain was offered release [...]

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Article courtesy of DailyKOS.
Sarah Palin:  Separatist, former mayor of a village, and a wannabe book-burner:
[Former Wasilla mayor John Stein] says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language [...]

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From DailyKOS:
After being told lack of experience, youth, and popularity were bad things, McCain is picking the inexperienced and young Sarah Palin for veep.
Given her current ethical troubles, it seems par for the GOP course. And Republicans nationally will be thrilled to hear that her husband works in Big Oil. But at least McCain gets [...]

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As Jane mentioned yesterday, back in 2003, McSame helped DHL screw the people of Ohio out of thousands of jobs. Now that’s he facing the political backlash campaigning in Ohio, he’s shocked, shocked — and wants to get to the bottom of it.

Sen. John McCain promised Thursday to call for a congressional hearing and Justice [...]

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On Tuesday Michael Calderone at Politico produced definitive evidence of Ron Fournier’s bias in favor of John McCain. He did it by linking the Associated Press Washington Bureau chief directly to the McCain presidential campaign. Over a period of several months during 2006, Fournier discussed taking a high-level communications job with the McCain campaign. Apparently [...]

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An NBC News exclusive report that ran on msnbc.com about an unusual Pentagon fuel deal has sparked an inquiry by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, according to the committee’s Web site. As the NBC News report said, the lucrative contract to ship fuel through Jordan to Iraq involved an influential group of people, [...]

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