Saturday, October 11, 2008

Gov. Palin Cited in Ethics Violation

By Jason Leopold
October 11, 2008

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin abused her authority and broke state ethics laws by sanctioning a campaign to pressure subordinates to fire her former brother-in-law, state trooper Mike Wooten, according to an investigative report released by state lawmakers.

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Friday, October 10, 2008

Todd Palin Defends Trooper Actions

By Jason Leopold
October 10, 2008

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s husband admits he was obsessed with getting his wife’s estranged brother-in-law fired from the state troopers, so much so that Gov. Palin once told him to “stop talking about it with her,” according to a 25-page sworn affidavit given to a state investigator.

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Thursday, October 09, 2008

Should Palin Forgive Bill Ayers?

By Sherwood Ross
October 10, 2008

The desperation of the McCain camp over its sagging fortunes is nowhere better revealed than in its ridiculous attacks on Barack Obama for sitting on the same board of a Chicago philanthropy with William Ayers, a onetime bad boy in the Weather Underground.

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McCain Detours to the Low Road

By Michael Winship
October 9, 2008

And so it has begun. The final month of the presidential race, the campaign that feels as if it commenced some time during the Coolidge administration.

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McCain-Palin Put 'Country Last'

By Robert Parry
October 9, 2008

Once Barack Obama emerged as a viable candidate for President – given the nation's grim history of violence toward African-American political figures – the worries began about Obama’s safety, and they have not gone away.

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Tuesday, October 07, 2008

GOP Judges Aid White House Cover-up

By Jason Leopold
October 7, 2008

A Republican-dominated federal Appeals Court panel has blocked the enforcement of a congressional subpoena, effectively guaranteeing that George W. Bush will leave the White House without his senior aides having to explain the firings of nine prosecutors.

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Monday, October 06, 2008

Election '08: Here Comes the Sludge

By Robert Parry
October 6, 2008

Sarah Palin’s charge that Barack Obama is “palling around with terrorists” may mark the descent of Campaign 2008 into the sewer that has marked so many other recent U.S. elections. But her comments operate on another level, too, continuing to brand anyone who criticizes George W. Bush’s neoconservative foreign policy as un-American.

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Sunday, October 05, 2008

Alaska GOP's Last-Ditch Palin Defense

By Jason Leopold
October 5, 2008

Only days before the scheduled release of an investigative report on whether Sarah Palin abused her power as Alaska’s governor in the “Troopergate” case, six pro-Palin lawmakers have lodged an emergency appeal asking the state Supreme Court to shut down the inquiry.

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