The Senate passed the $410 billion omnibus stimulus package tonight after a week of widespread grandstanding and feigned horror over $7.7 billion in earmarks — which is simply a means of allocating streams of existing funds — split between 95 Senators. And yet here’s John McCain, g...

The 2008 presidential campaigns will long be remembered as historic.  Of course, one of the most remarkable thresholds crossed was the record breaking financial resources raised and spent through the process.  In fact our fund-raising for McCain-Palin 2008 raised over $450 million, by far the most...

We’ll admit, we have some sympathy for the former Republican leadership and George W. Bush with regards to the “John McCain situation.” It was kind of fun for us communists to see John McCain (occasionally, arbitrarily) challenge the Bush administration on a handful of issues over ...

LET’S JUST FUEL THIS MEGHAN MCCAIN/ANN COULTER FEUD FOR A FEW MORE MINUTES AND THEN KILL OURSELVES: Speaking of death, have you heard about this thing where Ann Coulter and Bill Maher are on a “debate tour” with Mark Halperin serving as moderator? Does one actually pay to attend th...

Recently, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has tweeted a series of top 10 lists of “porkiest projects” in the omnibus spending bill, criticizing “beaver management” and even funding for school construction. Last month, one of his tweets was an earmark in the omnibus spending bill for ...

Michael Spencer, a self-evowed evangelical Christian, predicts the end of his kind. We are on the verge – within 10 years – of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will fundamentally alter the religious...

At the top of the 8 a.m. EST hour of Tuesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez teased an upcoming interview with John McCain’s daughter, Meghan McCain: "And young Mac attack. Senator McCain's daughter, Meghan, takes aim at conservative Ann Coulter and tells us about her post-election...

A ridiculous amount of time is being wasted on talking about whether or not certain individuals want Obama to fail. It's an idiotic exercise. Who cares? What difference does it make? Much of the discussion has centered around Rush Limbaugh's statements. Limbaugh is Newsweek's cover boy for the March...

My fellow blogger and Twitter bud Biased Girl asks, “Who the Hell Cares What Meghan McCain thinks?”. Well, obviously the MSM does because she’s drawing coverage from the Politico.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]...

A SPECIAL AQUIDNECK INQUIRER ENDORSEMENT "now's the time": FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: BARACK OBAMA As we watched Senator Barack Obama speak to a large crowd in Jacksonville, Florida, a city with which some of the staff of The Aquidneck Inquirer has roots, the great "Now&#...