Garrison Keillor on McCain’s accusations of elitism

Garrison Keillor often writes with a sharp pen.  Here's what he recently wrote (at Salon.com) about McCain's attempts to brand Obama an elitist: And it's an amazing country where an Arizona multimillionaire can attack a Chicago South Sider as an elitist and hope to make it stick. The Chicagoan was…

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Why aren’t these people in prison for these campaign finance law violations?

Check out this WaPo story: The bundle of $2,300 and $4,600 checks that poured into Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign on March 12 came from an unlikely group of California donors: a mechanic from D&D Auto Repair in Whittier, the manager of Rite Aid Pharmacy No. 5727, the 30-something owners…

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Out of my Comfort Zone

There was to have been a broadcast debate today between a Creationist and a Biologist. Ray Comfort (of the Banana Proves Creationism fame) against PZ Myers (a.k.a Pharyngula). But the station wimped out, and broadcast Comfort in relative quiet comfort today, and will allow Myers to respond tomorrow morning (Weds.…

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