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• Democratic National Committee - Press Releases
• Oct 13, 2008 UPDATED: Gov. Howard Dean to Continue to Campaign for Change in New Hampshire After campaigning in his home state of Vermont over the weekend, today Governor Howard Dean will continue to campaign on behalf of the Obama-Biden ticket, Jeanne Shaheen for Senate and Paul Hodes for Congress in New Hampshire. This campaign season, Gov. Dean has recruited hundreds of volunteers...     Democratic National Committee - Press Releases        more   
• Oct 10, 2008 New DNC Web Video Asks ''Who Is John McCain'' The Democratic National Committee today released the second in a series of web videos showing John McCain denouncing his own campaign tactics. The new ad, called "Who Is John McCain," shows McCain in 2000 denouncing negative campaign tactics and promising to fight the battle of ideas....     Democratic National Committee - Press Releases        more   
• Oct 10, 2008 Gov. Howard Dean to Campaign for Change in Vermont and New Hampshire Governor Dean will campaign on behalf of the Obama-Biden ticket and Jeanne Shaheen for Senate in New Hampshire and for the Obama-Biden ticket in Vermont this weekend and early next week. This campaign season, Gov. Dean has recruited hundreds of volunteers and registered thousands of voters....     Democratic National Committee - Press Releases        more   
• Oct 8, 2008 Count the Lies #128: McCain's Subprime Attack Out of Context The Democratic National Committee today updated the Count the Lies counter after CNN flagged John McCain for taking Barack Obama's words about subprime loans "out of context." As CNN notes, McCain criticized Obama for allegedly saying subprime loans are "a good idea" when...     Democratic National Committee - Press Releases        more   
• Oct 8, 2008 20 New Fact Checks Added to the Count the Lies Counter The Democratic National Committee today updated the Count the Lies counter to reflect the 20 new fact checks published during and after last night's Presidential candidates' debate. Independent, non-partisan fact check organizations debunked John McCain's false claims and desperate...     Democratic National Committee - Press Releases        more   
• Molly Ivins
• Jun 21, 2007 Molly Ivins: Molly Ivins AlterNet Archive An archive of the great progressive columnist's writings.     Molly Ivins        more   
• Jan 12, 2007 Molly Ivins: Stand Up Against the "Surge" We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders and we need to raise hell.     Molly Ivins        more   
• Washington Post
• Oct 12, 2008 Seeing White House From a Cell in Hanoi To endure their long ordeal, John McCain and the other U.S. servicemen held as prisoners of war in North Vietnam in the 1960s developed a number of survival techniques. None was quite as effective as the one former Navy pilot Richard Stratton remembers: "If you kept your mind occupied, you were...     Washington Post        more   
• Oct 12, 2008 Obama Up by 10 Points as McCain Favorability Ratings Fall With just over three weeks until Election Day, the two presidential nominees appear to be on opposite trajectories, with Sen. Barack Obama gaining momentum and Sen. John McCain stalled or losing ground on a range of issues and personal traits, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.     Washington Post        more   
• Oct 12, 2008 Clintons Join Biden to Campaign for Obama in Scranton SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 12 -- Everything in politics is recyclable. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. left this state while in grade school, but he can still talk of "we Pennsylvanians." Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's childhood summers at a nearby lake can be turned into the declaration that "here in...     Washington Post        more   
• Oct 12, 2008 GOP Head Compares Obama to Bin Laden RICHMOND -- The chairman of the Virginia Republican Party has compared Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden because of the Illinois senator's past association with Bill Ayers, who has confessed to domestic bombings as a member of the Vietnam War-era Weather Underground.     Washington Post        more   
• Oct 11, 2008 Issue of Race Creeps Into Campaign In the first presidential campaign involving an African American nominee of a major party, both candidates have agreed on this much: They would rather not dwell on the subject of race.     Washington Post        more   
• Oct 11, 2008 U.S. Drops North Korea From Terrorism List The Bush administration removed North Korea from its terrorism blacklist yesterday, a move that was aimed at salvaging a sputtering nuclear disarmament deal but that sparked internal controversy, infuriated Japan and drew some Republican opposition.     Washington Post        more   
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