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The can't-stand
The Seahawks look like zombies again.
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The America-hating media elite apparently didn't get the memo that fact-checking and actual reporting won't be tolerated. The National Enquirer, of course, can be expected to carry water for the Democrats. That publication hates average Americans. But now even the Anchorage Daily News, which showed great restraint in the early days of the vetting of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, is looking pinko with an examination of her two e-mail realms. The New York Times, meanwhile, reports that while the governor publicly stated that scientists had found no ill effects on polar bears from global warming, eventual disclosure of the scientists' e-mails revealed "that state scientists had in fact agreed that the bears were in danger." Oh, and the bigger picture:
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Short-term, Boeing benefits from airlines' desperate need for more fuel-efficient planes. That's one reason the order book is fat and the International Association of Machinists thinks this is a good time to strike. (And it's why the strike, in the words of Mike Parks of Marple's Pacific Northwest Letter, "could be a very long one.") Looking at this demand, both Boeing and the state economic forecasters see continued, booming growth for the airplane manufacturer, at least through 2011. But there are two big problems.
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The Democrats off balance and off message
Sen. Barack Obama's campaign has been dazed by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the unqualified and yet wildly popular running mate chosen by Sen. John McCain. With time short, Democrats need to get back on message — economic and fiscal issues — and take aim squarely at the top of the GOP ticket, says Crosscut's national-politics writer. The public will figure out Palin for itself.
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