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...ad hoc and poorly-planned nature of today's attack has led some to speculate that it may be in retaliation for an early morning attack on a remote village in South Waziristan that killed 20 people, including women and children. Witnesses on the ground told the Associated Press that U.S. helicopter gunships had fired on the village, and that U.S. soldiers physically entered one of the houses. Military spokesman Maj. Murad Khan confirmed the attack, but would not say who was behind it. The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan said it had no report of activity in that area...
...most widely searched terms containing "Obama" over the last four weeks - it was the seventh most popular term, accounting for 0.45% of all U.S. Internet searches that contained "Obama" - was "Obama Antichrist." At first I thought it was a response to the McCain campaign ad called "The One," which ridicules Obama for having a messiah complex and which many people thought drew a comparison between Obama and the Antichrist. But an analysis of Internet search data reveals that queries relating to Obama and the Antichrist started as early as January 2008, preceding the McCain video by over seven months...
...Antichrist" at all. One simple way to understand searcher intent is to analyze, in aggregate, which of the search results people tend to click on. After searching for "Obama Antichrist," people, predictably, tend to go to a blog dedicated to the topic and political blogs commenting on the McCain ad and its connection to the theory. But the most visited search-result site was Snopes.com (16.7% of all visits), the go-to site for debunking urban legends...
...surprised Alaska's conservatives by vetoing a bill that would have denied state benefits to same-sex couples (though that might help her appeal to less socially conservative independents). Her profile as a good government crusader may not be such an easy sell, either. She was endorsed in an ad by Senator Ted Stevens, who is now under indictment in a Republican corruption scandal. And she's already embroiled in a mini-scandal that's under investigation by the state senate; Palin's former public safety director has claimed he was fired because he refused to fire a state trooper...
...politics. The slander, the rumor-mongering, the fluffy message-hawking - these are all symptoms of a very old sickness that has rattled around America for a while. Young voters are interested in Obama because he is so unlike the person McCain is showing himself to be. The viral video ad the McCain campaign released isn't a hit because people see through this desperate strategy. Since the Democratic primaries, Obama has clung to a belief in meaningful arguments and substance. He has refused, so far, to pander to the kind of agitprop that the Bush campaign...