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Keith Olbermann has been removed from the MSNBC anchor’s chair on all election coverage for the rest of the campaign due to on-air bias. He will still keep his popular Countdown program and continue to provide color commentary to the news desk. Chris Matthews was demoted as well.

MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann Out!

Olbermann has been pulled from the upcoming debates and election night coverage after a controversial convention which oozed of liberal bias and embarrassed the network. He was part of an experiment with Matthews which put analysts in the role of anchors for election news coverage.

David Gregory will take over as anchor for MSNBC’s election coverage.

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The Religious History of Barack Obama.

This photo of Barack Obama in Muslim garb in Kenya caused a sensational firestorm on the internet earlier this year. The Obama picture as a Muslim seems to play into the fears of ordinary Americans and the Obama campaign alike. People wonder is Barack Obama Muslim?

Barack Obama’s Muslim Roots and Influences

Update: This topic is back in the news today because of Barack Obama’s appearance on This Week in which he referred to his “Muslim faith.” This was an unfortunate slip of the tongue for the Democrat presidential candidate, however, it is relevant in the context of this article. So keep reading this original article from February, 2008, which describes Obama’s Muslim heritage that would prompt such a religious reference.

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The interest in Obama’s Islamic upbringing is undoubtedly in some ways unfair. I suspect that an unfortunate element of American jingoism is partly at work here. On the other hand, to the extent that Islamic culture distinguishes itself from American values, Obama’s background may be important to understand. People wonder, for example, why Obama would not cross his heart for the pledge of allegiance or wear an American flag lapel pin.

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The United Nations says you can stop global warming by not eating meat. Vegans held up as heroes by environmentalists! Read about it below!

Don’t Eat Meat!

Dr. Rajendra Pachauri is the chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and he is suggesting that individuals can help to curb global warming by not eating meat. Actually, he says we should start by having one meat free day a week. Then we can build on that until we are a meatless society! Coincidentally and I’m sure completely unrelated to Dr. Pachauri’s declarations is the fact that he, himself, is a vegetarian.

I’m also absolutely certain that the fact that his job is dependent on the existence of and coming up with solutions for global warming would have nothing at all to do with his proclamations!

It seems that the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that the production of meat is responsible for almost a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. Cows are particularly bad for the environment. It turns out that their flatulence causes 23 times the global warming as carbon dioxide!! Even if you quit eating meat and just eat cheese and drink milk, you still have the cow flatulence to worry about!

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Maureen Dowd

Isn’t funny how the liberal press seems down lately? Palin simply stole all the wind from Obama’s sails. The polls are beginning to show it. And there’s just that general sense in the blogosphere that the tide is turning.

And now, here’s Maureen Dowd of the New York Times (otherwise known as the Fox News of the Left), commenting on a future Palin v. Clinton in 2012 in her latest column:

Now, alas, we’ll have to wait until 2012 when the two fiercest competitors on the trail will no doubt face off in the presidential debate, with Palin still riding high from her 2008 field-dressing of Obama (who’s now back in the Senate convening his subcommittee on Afghanistan).

Already conceding defeat in 2008? What a quitter. No wonder you liberals were willing to abandon Iraq.

Barack Obama made a military service claim that is sure to draw further ridicule from his opponents and scrutiny from undecided voters. He says that he considered U.S. military service during an interview with George Stephanopoulos for his “This Week” show on ABC.

Obama Military Enlistment?

The claim raises eyebrows among pundits and biographers who have followed Obama’s career. Never before has he made any reference to joining the military. Obama has written two books including a lengthy autobiography of his life. He never mentioned it. He has never mentioned it before on any television program or during any speech.

But on ABC’s “This Week” on September 7th 2008, he suddenly told George Stephanopoulos:

“I had to sign up for selective service when I graduated from High School. And I was growing up in Hawaii. And I have friends whose parents were in the military. There are a lot of Army, military bases there.I actually always thought of the military as an ennobling and you know, honorable option.”

[But] “I graduated in 1979. The Vietnam War had come to an end. We weren’t engaged in an active military conflict at that point. And so, it’s not an option that I ever decided to pursue.”

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Everything you want to know about Hurricane Ike is included here as a pubic service. Weather maps, the projected path, hurricane trackers, the latest advisories, and the forecast and charts from the National Hurricane Center at the National Weather Service are below. Get your Hurricane Ike right here, a post that will be updated as the events unfold.

Hurricane Ike
(interactive clickable images).

The storm is currently a killer category 4 hurricane which is ravaging the Turks Islands, Bahama Islands and Cuba. Ike is packing 135 mile per hour wind gusts but moving only 15 miles per hour as it destroys everything in it’s path in a particularly methodical, slow-moving destructive track. Videos of Ike’s destruction are posted below as available.

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Obama McCain Presidential Race Polls.

Here are the latest national general election polls in the 2008 presidential race between Barack Obama and John McCain. Presidential match-up surveys for the head-to-head race will be updated daily from Gallup, Rasmussen, Reuters, Zogby, Survey USA, CNN, CBS News and others including the daily tracking polls.

This polling compilation will be updated daily and the link will be conveniently located in the sidebar.

General Election Polls - National

All summer long the race has been tight. National polls have alternatively shown Obama and McCain tied or more commonly Obama slightly ahead, with a few polls showing the McCain ticket leading. Most of the polling were done before the conventions so we can throw them out now. People are finally beginning to pay attention to the election.

So now the race is on. Both parties have had their conventions and their historic speeches. We will know next week if the “Palin bounce” has wiped out the “Obama bounce” from the week before, and where things generally stand in the Obama McCain race.

Regardless of the short term, however, expect the election to be close all the way to election day in November.

Update 9/7/08 - The first Zogby poll after the RNC convention clearly shows a McCain-Palin bounce in which they have topped 50% for the first time. Gallup confirmed the Palin convention bounce with a result that is outside their margin of error, while USA today shows a 10 point lead among likely voters We can say that John McCain has surged ahead in the general election, although we expect the race is still very close.

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US Magazine is setting records for losing subscribers after the magazine published a Sarah Palin attack in its most recent issue. Read about it below and see photos and a video.

US Magazine Palin Attack

US Magazine got a ton of publicity for their biased cover and report on Sarah Palin and the Palin family. Unfortunately, it seems that the old adage of any publicity being good publicity is proving not to be true in this case.

In a short 24 hours from the time the magazine was printed they have lost about 10,000 subscribers. That has to be a record. Not just that, they have had recently former subscribers calling advertisers and complaining about the magazine and threatening to boycott their products.

It seems that US Weekly editors figured that the McCain campaign would dump Palin from the ticket when the media went on the attack as soon as her name was announced as his running mate. Seeing a chance to scoop the story, they published a highly inflammatory and unfaltering cover and story on Palin. They apparently hoped the ’scandals’ would be her undoing.

Other celebrity magazines, People and OK!, had Palin on the cover, but they were apparently just a tad more careful and hedged their bets that she might still be around for another news cycle.

There were quite a few embarrassingly amateur mistakes made by the publishers, editors and whoever else was involved in the decision making process to vilify Sarah Palin in that issue of the celebrity rag magazine.

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