You Can Put $150,000 Worth of Clothes and Makeup on a Horribly Unqualified VP Candidate, but....
Category: John McCain
You know the rest.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 3:03 PM • 5 Comments •
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Obama and McCain Highlight Health Care Plans in NEJM
Category: Election 2008
Obama and McCain lay out their plans in a more formal setting.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 2:10 PM • 3 Comments •
Barack Obama: Health Care Is a Right
Category: Barack Obama
Obama nails the issue in the latest presidential debate.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 6:15 PM • 12 Comments •
Economists Overwhelmingly Agree that Obama Is Stronger on the Economy
Category: economics
A revealing poll by The Economist
Posted by Nick Anthis at 5:22 PM • 6 Comments •
Obama on Science and Technology
Category: Barack Obama
Although lacking detail in some areas, his answers are on target and are indicative of sound scientific advising.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:20 PM • 3 Comments •
Being a POW Does Not Automatically Qualify You to Be President
Category: Election 2008
Am I taking crazy pills, or do people honestly believe that saying that being a prisoner of war doesn't automatically qualify you to be president is the same as attacking someone's service record? Because, this latest media flare-up over Wesley...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 4:05 PM • 12 Comments •
Obama's Support of Corn Ethanol Unlikely to Change
Category: Barack Obama
We're going to have to be realistic here.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 4:25 PM • 15 Comments •
McCain's Own Agents of Intolerance
Category: John McCain
As the media circus over Jeremiah Wright continues, it should give us pause that the media hasn't decided to focus on John McCain and his embrace of a wide range of religious bigots. Although McCain once called these men "agents...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 6:43 PM • 8 Comments •
The Gas Tax Suspension: Political Pandering of the Worst Kind
Category: Election 2008
This morning, I had to wake up to another article about John McCain's and Hillary Clinton's proposal to temporarily waive the gas tax this summer. That's it. I'm just going to have to come out and say it: this is...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 8:07 AM • 4 Comments •
John McCain Embraces Scientifically-Disproved Vaccine/Autism Link
Category: John McCain
Welcome to Crankville, Senator.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 3:24 PM • 8 Comments •
On Drugs, Circumcision, and John McCain
Category: HIV/AIDS
Antiretroviral drugs taken prophylactically protecting against HIV, some doubt about the effects of circumcision, and a blast from the past with John McCain
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:20 AM • 16 Comments •
McCain on Condoms for HIV Prevention: ???
Category: public health
Not that HIV/AIDS is an important issue or anything... but it appears that Republican presidential hopeful John McCain hasn't been thinking much--or at all--about HIV prevention. The New York Times blog The Caucus reports that when asked about the subject...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 10:54 AM • 2 Comments •
"Moderate" Republicans Pander to the Religious Right
Category: Republican Party
As 2008 approaches, many of the Republican contenders for the Presidency will try to paint themselves as moderates. An article in today's Washington Post, though, underlines why we should be weary of their empty rhetoric. Romney, who is expected to...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 4:30 PM • 0 Comments •
