Fiscal Fact No. 144 Both candidates for President have spoken a great deal about the nation’s health care system, focusing on high costs and the large number who go without health insurance coverage. Health care costs continue to rise more rapidly than incomes, and the number of adults without health insurance persists at roughly 45 [...]

Scaring Seniors An Obama-Biden ad says McCain supports “cutting benefits in half” for Social Security recipients. False! A new Obama ad characterizes the “Bush-McCain privatization plan” as “cutting Social Security Benefits in half.” This is a falsehood sure to frighten seniors who rely on their Social Security checks. In truth, McCain does not propose to [...]

In early June, Senator John McCain invited Senator Barack Obama to attend a series of up to 10 “town hall” style meetings throughout the summer. At the time of the invitation Obama was receptive to the idea of appearing with McCain at the “town hall” meetings, but in early August, the Obama campaign cited a [...]

Has abortion become the “key” to women’s liberation? MarketWatch discusses the reason feminists don’t like Palin and discuss the real double standard of the sexist attacks on her and her family.

The last time I saw Whoopie, she was praising Muslims for tossing a woman in prison for insulting Islam. Now she is showing her ignorance of the Constitution by asking John McCain if he was planning on using it to legalize slavery. She is unaware that there is in fact an Amendment to the Constitution [...]

This is how they celebrate the mass murder of US citizens over at the kos.

Newt has to explain the differences between Obama’s inexperience and Palin’s experience to Stewart. He also has to explain the difference between government policy and Palin’s daughter.

Here is a nice little video of Joe Biden telling Senator Chuck Graham to stand up. There is one tiny problem with that. What you can’t see in the video is the Senator sitting in a wheelchair.

Democrats’ double-digit lead on the “generic ballot” slips to 3 points by Lydia Saad PRINCETON, NJ — A potential shift in fortunes for the Republicans in Congress is seen in the latest USA Today/Gallup survey, with the Democrats now leading the Republicans by just 3 percentage points, 48% to 45%, in voters’ “generic ballot” preferences [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez ordered the U.S. ambassador to leave Venezuela within 72 hours on Thursday, accusing the diplomat of conspiring against his government and saying he would also withdraw his own envoy from Washington immediately. Chavez made the move in solidarity with Bolivia after his Andean ally expelled the U.S. diplomat there, [...]