By Ruth Marcus Wednesday, October 22, 2008; The Washington Post WOODBRIDGE — John McCain should not have to be here, not on a crisp October Saturday scarcely two weeks before the election. Prince William County is the electoral Maginot line between the Washington suburbs and what a McCain spokeswoman has just unhelpfully described as “real [...]
Archive for October 22nd, 2008
22 Oct
The Global War on Terror Report Card
TomDispatch.com. posted October 21, 2008 3:23 pm Tomgram: [Note for TomDispatch Readers: To listen to a podcast in which Tom Engelhardt discusses this article, click here. In addition, dial-up users will now find a better option for listening available to them.] F is for Failure The Bush Doctrine in Ruins By Tom Engelhardt On the [...]
22 Oct
Health Care
thinkprogress.org HEALTH CARE Fact-checking FactCheck.org Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) first health care plan released in 2007 was supposed to be financed by exposing health benefits to income and payroll taxes. But analysts argued that doing so would result in a massive tax increase on the middle class, so the campaign flip-flopped earlier this month and said that McCain would finance the plan [...]
