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Command Sergeant Major John Holland on John McCain - `Hanoi John`

Presidential pardon from Nixon saves John McCain from treason and collaboration charges according to Rolling Thunder Founder and 3 war veteran, John Holland....

(CINCINNATI, Ohio) - Some of us have seen the reports about John McCain. I know what Ted Guy had to say about McCain and I know how angry POW activists have been at his betrayal of their cause.

What I didn't know and that few of us knew, is that John Holland, Rolling Thunder Founder, had called for the Republican Party to remove McCain from the ticket.

Sarah Palin`s Latest Target: Energy Efficiency

Even fellow Alaskan Republicans are urging Governor Palin to accept the funds, but she is stubbornly refusing to adopt energy efficiency standards critical for the future of our planet

(ANCHORAGE) - Environmental groups are demanding that Governor Palin do the right thing for the planet, according to Care2 and ThePetitionSite Team.

"The money is there for states to strengthen building codes, prioritize energy efficiency and renewable energy, replace streetlights with LED bulbs and incentivize energy savings for customers -- but Governor Palin is rejecting this environmentally sound plan and the money that comes with it for no good reason."

The Body Politic: Cutting Meghan McCain Down to Size

Regardless of whether or not McCain makes a serious mark in politics, she is already having an impact on the fight against society's objectification of women.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The personal is political, but does that mean political pundits should critique the size of your thighs rather than your values and actions?

Meghan McCain was into the public eye when her father decided to run for president.

Joe the Plumber, Meet Elliot Spitzer

A writer based in Miami, Michael R. Caputo worked on the Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp and George H.W. Bush Republican presidential campaigns.

(MIAMI, Fla.) - Last week, Ohio Inspector General Thomas Charles revealed his office is investigating six state agencies that accessed confidential records on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, a small-town plumber and accidental everyman.

With this announcement, Joe the Plumber is officially a problem for Ohio Democrats.

October 12, four days before the final presidential debate, Democrat nominee Sen. Barack Obama campaigned door-to-door in a northwest Ohio suburb. Approached by the passing candidate, Wurzelbacher remarked, "Oh, you don't want to talk to me." Perhaps intrigued by the chilly response, Obama stopped to talk with Wurzelbacher, who was playing football with his son in his front yard.

The Politics of Religion - Part One

Reasons for war range from economics to religion, but expansionism was supposed to be a lesson we already learned.

(PASO ROBLES, Calif.) - Since the turn of the 21st century, religion has become a more serious concern for the American people because the assumed authority of President Bush comes from his belief that he is God's Active Voice and refers to himself as “The Decider.”

He has used his belief to confront Islam in the Middle East with the hope of imposing upon it what he calls Freedom that can be interpreted to mean Free Choice in religious terms, under a democratic label. America's strength is presumed to be God given, and an obligation to convert the Middle East to democracy.

It is an echo of a by-gone era when the "white man's burden" was to impose Civilization [another word for Christianity] upon the lives of lesser peoples wherever they may reside. But Moslems sees it as another Crusade by Christianity to impose its will on Islam and resists as it has for centuries.

What on Earth is Heaven

Ken Ramey takes a deep and introspective look at the parallels.

(PASO ROBLES, Calif.) - Most people accept the religious definition that heaven is a wondrous and happy place which is the after-death reward of good and devoted followers who don’t question that definition, but I felt compelled to seek the truth for myself. Hawaii, for example, is touted as paradise, but I prefer the Caribbean. I assume, therefore, that paradise is not the same to all persons, and it occurred to me that what is true of an earthly paradise might also be true of heaven.

All my life I had been told so-called truths only to learn much of what I had been given to believe as true was not. So, I decided to consider life's mysteries logically to reduce my confusion rather than add to it. I recognized my limitations, and freely admitted that truths exist beyond the bounds of reason. Since there was little I could do about them, I decided to believe only that which is believable. If I could not rationalize my way out of a mystery, I would ignore it for the moment and deal only with what I could handle. From this beginning I developed a thesis which accepted that man is composed of two essential parts; his subconscious, and his conscious being. Or, to put it another way, man brain is product of his reality and his unreality.

The Republican Reign

The campaign for the presidency is over, Barack Obama won, and an anxious world waits on the threshold of an expectant and enduring peace if the problems he inherits can be corrected.

(PASO ROBLES, Calif.) - Now that the election is over, the Party can be perceived for what it is, a reign that falls mainly on the plain people; i.e. its base that consists of traditionalists, evangelicals, the super-rich, and wannabes who try to be like others if only in their imagination.

Traditionalists come from families who have voted Republican for generations, still do, and always will.

Evangelicals fall easily into the traditionalist-mold because they tend to believe Evangelists who pretend to speak for God, but who often misinterpret the New Testament and embellish their preaching to suit their purpose. Rod Parsley says it is God’s will that American-Christians destroy Islam, and that may explain the Iraq fiasco.

Just Another Foot Soldier

After 25 years in the media, a one-time journalist takes a side. Being a foot soldier inside the Obama Campaign, he witnessed stereotypes blown to bits on the porches and the sidewalks of his own town.

(SALEM, Ore.) - After more than two decades covering the political landscape, including five governors, four presidents, and hundreds of house and senate races, I could finally sit and let the wave hit me.

There were no lights in my eyes, no microphone in hand, no producer in my ear, counting the seconds to the moment the camera would go hot. Instead, a new era in America was about to dawn and I was nothing but a quiet observer.

On this, the most historic of all election nights in my 48-year-old life, I stood shoulder to shoulder with The Throng and just let the high-voltage moment flood my soul.

Barack Obama Sweeps Presidential Race in a Landslide

The United States elects its first African American President in history.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The polls on the east coast had only been closed for a couple of hours when it became clear that Barack Obama would be the next President of the United States.

Just seconds after the polls on the west coast closed at 8:00 PM, CNN called the race for Obama.

"Nobody knows how to behave, this never happens to us," one Democratic voter at a Salem election party said just after the announcement. Flags flew and televised tears flowed from live cameras at rallies all over the nation in the moments following the word that the race would go to Obama.

November 4th 2008 will go down in history as the day that the United States achieved the unexpected; and set a course to steer the nation away from eight years of fiercely dominated Republican policies and decisions.

Oregon Braces for National Election

Eight years of George W. Bush will come to a close tonight, or will they?

(SALEM, Ore.) - The United States is just hours away from electing a new President. Political polls have shown Democratic Senator Barack Obama leading the race over Republican Senator John McCain. Americans have learned by now though that polls can be deceiving and some say the numbers do not always show an accurate picture.

Barack Obama's past association with Pastor Jeremiah Wright and a professor remembered as a domestic terrorist of the 1960's, William Ayers, have been his sticking points.

McCain has been attacked for his switch stance position on issues ranging from support for the current U.S. President George W. Bush to abortion. Many hard right GOP members had a hard time coming to terms with McCain as a presidential choice, but the party found unity in support of this "maverick" man from Arizona.