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When Katie Couric was trying to pin Sarah Palin down on examples of John McCain having promoted increased government regulation of business, the CBS anchor, after her initial inquiry, posed no fewer than three follow-up questions, even breaking out the old "not to belabor the point" line as she did just that.But when the man perhaps poised to become the most powerful person on the planet, with…

If Barack Obama loses the election, will he graciously concede? According to an open letter signed by author Gore Vidal and a gaggle of leftists, Obama should not concede under almost any conditions. If Jon Voight had signed an open letter to John McCain asking him not to concede, that would be big news. So far the only sound from the mainstream media to Gore Vidal's dangerous request is the…

In the last Conventional Wisdom feature before the election, Newsweek magazine assigned a sideways arrow for the Democratic vice presidential contender while giving the thumbs down to Gov. Sarah Palin for "sink[ing]" the campaign with a "lack of gravitas."In doing so, the CW feature dismissed the damaging impact of Sen. Joe Biden's "rhetorical flourishes." Yet among Biden's recent foot-in-mouth…

Two studies published by Pediatrics find that sexy TV shows are associated with higher teen pregnancy rates, and violent video games with increased hostility in children.

 P.J. Gladnick's post regarding the audio of Barack Obama telling the San Francisco Chronicle he will bankrupt the coal industry has already elicited the response of : "unbelievable" from a West Virginia coal official. Governor Palin included the issue in a speech at a rally in Ohio today as well. During Obama's January 2008 talk with the San Francisco Chronicle, he also mentions how…

In reporting the speech by Gov. Sarah Palin in Ohio today, CNN’s Political Ticker tried to spin her question about Obama’s coal comment as old news when it clearly isn’t. Palin asked why we are just now finding out about the interview where Barack Obama said he had hoped to bankrupt the coal industry but CNN termed this interview and Obama’s startling admission as “months-old coal comments” in an…

For your Sunday entertainment pleasure, a woman in a Detroit suburb on Halloween refused to give candy to trick or treaters that didn't support McCain:

It has become perhaps the most famous political photo of all time. President Harry Truman, on the heels of defeating opponent Thomas Dewey in the 1948 presidential campaign, gleefully holding up a copy of the Chicago Tribune with the overconfident but incorrect headline of "Dewey Defeats Truman." Will history repeat itself this Wednesday when the Doonesbury comic strip is published which assumes…

Joe Concha's Pigskins and Politics follows:

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: poll insanity.In the past two weeks, the polls have been all over the place virtually changing every day. What does this tell us? With the speed of information transfer, and a large percentage of Americans no longer possessing landlines in their homes, do surveys of one or two thousand folks in a 300 million population country mean…

"Saturday Night Live" absolutely skewered MSNBC's Keith Olbermann last night accurately depicting the "Countdown" host as a pompous, dishonest buffoon who regularly takes things completely out of context, or just plain makes things up, in order to lambast Republicans.Frankly, it was shocking to see an NBC program so aggressively attack a fellow employee, and to watch the excessively liberal actor…