We still don't know a lot about Palin except that she's better at delivering a speech than McCain and that she defends her own pregnant daughter's right to privacy even as she would have the government intrude on the reproductive choices of all.

Barack Obama has said he considered joining the United States military when he left school but decided not to because the Vietnam war was over and "we weren't engaged in an active military conflict at that point".

John McCain's presidential campaign did not talk with the Alaska House speaker and other leading Republicans before McCain tapped Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin bolstered her fiscal-conservative credentials early in her term by putting her predecessor's state jet up for auction online.

Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was unlawfully arrested in downtown St. Paul on Sept 1, the first day of the Republican National Convention. Goodman was arrested while attempting to free two Democracy Now! producers who were also illegally arrested.

In the head-to-head race, Obama leads 50%-43% among registered voters. In the USA TODAY Poll taken Aug. 21-23, the Illinois senator held a 4-percentage-point lead.

39% !!! That is the lowest level of trust that Americans have shown in a potential vice president since the elder George Bush chose Dan Quayle in 1988. Sen. Barack Obama's running mate Joe Biden did far better with 57 percent of those polled saying he

This last-ditch attempt by the McCain campaign to re-brand its image is in reality, a capitulation to the far right. It assumes that women don't realize the extremism of the Republican platform this year, which opposes abortion even in the cases of rape

AW...the four southern governors whose states are in Gustave's projected path will skip the Convention, and Georgie & Big Dick will, too...unless they change the dates. I do pray for all the people who are likely to be affected by this storm, though.

Join Fr. Roy Bourgeois in asking McCain to end the torture associated with the SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS