Most recently updated OPINION columns from Creators Syndicate

New Pat Buchanan for 10/10/2008

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Two weeks after the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn., John McCain and Sarah Palin were striding forward toward victory.

They had erased the eight-point lead Barack Obama had opened up in Denver and watched as one blue state after another moved into the toss-up category.

That is ancient history now.

Since mid-September, the stock market has cratered, losing half of t ...

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New Michelle Malkin for 10/10/2008

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Republicans don't need to dress up for Halloween this year. They're scaring the pants off Barack Obama's followers by their mere presence. Anything they say, wear or do provokes instant cries of "RAAAAACISM!" Wink, blink or think critical thoughts about Obama? You're a bigot!

How many racial bogeymen have Obama operatives and sympathetic journalists discovered lurking in " ...

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New Matt Towery for 10/10/2008

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Does anyone remember the movie "Network"? The protagonist, Howard Beale, is a TV newscaster whose career is falling apart. So during one of his last newscasts, he suddenly blurts out, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Then he urges viewers to raise their window ceils and scream out the same thing.

He also told his viewers that they were now st ...

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New Roger Simon for 10/10/2008

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

NASHVILLE — Watching John McCain and Barack Obama at their second presidential debate was like watching two fighters circling each other, throwing a jab here, landing a blow there, but neither one ever delivering a knockout punch.

The trouble for John McCain, however, is that he needed one.

So if you had to say somebody lost Tuesday night, it was McCain. Because he had to wi ...

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New Roland S. Martin for 10/10/2008

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

During the Democratic primaries, I wrote a column about how easy it is for any candidate to tar and feather another about his associations with less than acceptable figures.

Sen. Hillary Clinton tried to blast Sen. Barack Obama for unsolicited comments made by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and folks such as Fox News' Sean Hannity were happy to run with it, saying it was evidenc ...

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New Linda Chavez for 10/10/2008

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Was John McCain playing the race card when he referred to Barack Obama as "that one" in Tuesday's presidential debate? Obama's campaign and its echo chamber in the media surely want us to think so. Within seconds, the campaign was sending out e-mails to reporters drawing attention to the phrase, and the media were quick to take up the charge.

The New York Times' Maureen Dowd so ...

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New David Limbaugh for 10/10/2008

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Democrats assume Republicans are raising Obama's many questionable relationships in a desperation effort to salvage the election. You might think this is splitting hairs, but I believe the reason is that these relationships scare the daylights out of us.

Conservatives were very much opposed to Bill Clinton for myriad reasons, but with decades in elective office in Arkansas, at least he w ...

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New David Sirota for 10/10/2008

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Is Henry Paulson a crony communist or a businessman? The answer could be the difference between economic disaster and recovery.

Understanding Paulson's role in stopping — or fueling — the credit crisis requires a review of two axioms from Economics 101: 1) A credit crisis occurs when banks stop lending and 2) The amount banks can lend is a multiple of the capital in their vau ...

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New L. Brent Bozell for 10/10/2008

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Just like Bill Maher, "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane is discovering that atheist ridicule of Jesus Christ and Christianity draws nothing but yawns from today's media elite. If you want an angry media mob, you need merely spit out "Barack Hussein Obama" at a McCain rally and watch the Guardians of Social Taste bring out the torches and pitchforks. But mocking Jesus? Ho ...

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New Oliver North for 10/10/2008

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

WASHINGTON — We're now into the 10th month of an election year, and the so-called mainstream media are on the lookout for an "October surprise." For those too young to remember, the term was coined by the potentates of the press to describe a nonevent: the belief of conspiracy theorists that Ronald Reagan somehow thwarted President Jimmy Carter from achieving the release of 52 A ...

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New Newspaper Contributors for 10/10/2008

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday joined five other central banks across the world in slashing interest rates to try to head off a globe-spanning recession.

The joint move is unprecedented, particularly in that the Chinese Central Bank joined with the Federal Reserve Board, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the central banks of Canada and Sweden to reduce primary lending ...

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New Newspaper Contributors for 10/10/2008

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama are nearly indistinguishable in their miscalculation of the American voters' appetite for bigger and more expensive government and their misunderstanding of human nature.

Both weaknesses were obvious Tuesday night as the presidential candidates faced off in their second debate.

Let's start with McCain's Homeownership Resurgence Plan, a $300 milli ...

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New Suzanne Fields for 10/10/2008

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Despite everything John McCain and Barack Obama can do, Sarah Palin continues to be the liveliest of the candidates, now starting the clubhouse turn and about to race down the homestretch.

There's only one more presidential debate to endure. By this time in a campaign, both presidential candidates are so programmed, their talking points so tested and trite if not necessarily true, that v ...

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New Norman Solomon for 10/11/2008

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

After three decades of rigorous class war — waged most relentlessly and effectively from the top down — we're now in the midst of a protracted requiem for "the middle class." It's a media mass (cue the funereal organ music) for that ill-defined class, conducted by the same news outlets that were cheering the financial-services system for a long time before the housing bubb ...

Updated: Sat Oct 11, 2008

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New Michael Barone for 10/11/2008

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

"I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors," Barack Obama told a crowd in Elko, Nev. "I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face." Actually, Obama supporters are doing a lot more than getting into people's faces. They seem determined to shut people ...

Updated: Sat Oct 11, 2008

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New Bill O'Reilly for 10/11/2008

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

One of the things lacking in the second presidential debate this week was anger. With the economy brutalizing millions of Americans, I expected both candidates to be furious that, once again, the government failed to warn us about impending disaster.

Before the 9/11 attacks, few Americans had ever heard of al-Qaida, even though Presidents Clinton and Bush certainly knew of the growing da ...

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New Paul Craig Roberts for 10/11/2008

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Readers have been pressing for a solution to the financial crisis. But first it is necessary to understand the problem. Here is the problem as I see it. If my diagnosis is correct, the solution below might be appropriate.

Let's begin with the fact that the financial crisis is more or less worldwide. The mechanism that spread the American-made financial crisis abroad was the massive U.S. ...

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New Lawrence Kudlow for 10/11/2008

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Fear and panic have taken over the stock market, the banking system and the economy. It is one of those moments in history when people feel helpless, frustrated and bewildered about what's going on and why it's happening.

Stocks are being pummeled in ways we haven't seen in nearly a century, both here and overseas. The Dow Jones is down nearly 20 percent this week, its second worst week ...

Updated: Sat Oct 11, 2008

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New Andy Borowitz for 10/11/2008

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

"Palling Around with Meteorologists," Guv Claims

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin went on the attack today, claiming that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has longstanding ties to The Weather Channel.

"What does it say about our opponent that he thinks this nation's weather is so imperfect that he needs to be allied with The Weather Channel?" she ask ...

Updated: Sat Oct 11, 2008

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New Mark Shields for 10/11/2008

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

When Ronald Reagan was in the White House, then-U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder — acknowledging Reagan's remarkable ability to escape without any of the voters' blame for his administration's mistakes and misdeeds ever sticking to him — dubbed him "the Teflon President."

It was not too much of an exaggeration to say then that if Ronald Reagan had driven a convertible &mdash ...

Updated: Sat Oct 11, 2008

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