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Iraqi Hopes for US Troop Withdrawal
One of the things that struck me about Friday night’s debate on the time line for troop withdrawal was that McCain appeared to believe that […]
Palin Says She did Not Have Money to Travel in Youth; But She went to College in Hawaii!
On seeing this part of the Couric interview of Palin, I suddenly remembered something about her: ‘ Couric: In preparing for this conversation, a lot […]
Debate Fact Check 5
About that claim by McCain that he warned about the mortgage crisis: McCain: “But — but let me — let me point out, I also […]
Debate Fact Check 3
Did Henry Kissinger advise direct talks with Iran at the highest levels? Yes. Kissinger gave an interview with Bloomberg Television News Service on March 14, […]
Debate fact-check 2: The Surge
In the debate, McCain promised ‘victory’ in Iraq and praised the surge. First of all, it isn’t ‘victory’ if Baghdad’s best hospital doesn’t even have […]
Fact-Checking 1
Fact-checking the debate (transcript available here). For Pakistan and the controversy over McCain’s ridiculous assertion that Pakistan was a ‘failed state’ in 1999 when Musharraf […]
Debate Fact Check 4
McCain said in the debate: ‘ So we have a long way to go in our intelligence services. We have to do a better job […]
CBS Poll of Independents: Obama Won
Keith Olbermann just read out the results of a snap poll of 500 uncommitted voters commissioned by CBS News just after Friday night’s presidential debate: […]
Palin’s Russian Roulette
On being a Russia expert by virtue of contiguity: “We have trade missions back and forth,” Palin told Couric. “We, we do, it’s very important […]
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