Featured Articles — August 30, 2008

August 30, 2008 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Featured Articles 

Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:

Let Palin Be Palin by William Kristol
Why the left is scared to death of McCain’s running mate.

Drug war bodies are piling up in Mexico By Ken Ellingwood
A police officer guards the scene in the Mexican state of Yucatan where 11 headless bodies were found piled. The nearby city of Merida is normally tranquil and touristy.
The heap of 11 decapitated bodies found in Yucatan shows that the battle to control the multibillion-dollar drug trade knows no boundaries.

A Turbulent Youth Under a Strong Father’s Shadow By Michael Leahy
McCain’s Maverick Nature Would Fuel His Political Climb.

McCain’s ‘Hail Sarah’ Pass By Jonathan Alter
His choice for veep is all but set up for failure in the fall.

McCain’s Baked Alaska By Gail Collins
The idea that women are going to race off to vote for any candidate with the same internal plumbing is both offensive and historically wrong.

Champagne and Tears By Bob Herbert
For black residents in and around Detroit, Barack Obama’s nomination helped to redeem some of the grief of many years of racial humiliation and oppression.

Star wars, tsar bright Austin Bay
As the Russo-Georgian War’s August gunfire slips into a murky September cease-fire, the Pentagon reports that the Russians “are still not living up to the terms of the cease-fire agreement.”

A Brilliant Trap Makes Dems Look Like Male Chauvinists By Kirsten Powers
SHE’S just a beauty queen., She’s another Dan Quayle., And ironically, the biggest criticism of Sarah Palin, John McCain’s veep choice, is she has no experience. Funny, coming from the Barack Obama camp.

Palin Fought for Reform in Alaska By Fred Barnes
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain’s pick as his running mate, is the boldest selection of a vice presidential candidate since Walter Mondale chose Geraldine Ferraro in 1984. Actually, it’s even bolder, and thus riskier. Mrs. Ferraro was a member of Congress and reasonably well-known in the national political community. Mrs. Palin is known only by faint reputation outside her home state, where she is enormously popular.

Drive Like the Wind By Lester R. Brown
How wind power could soon be powering your car instead of oil.

A Reform Ticket By Wall Street Journal Editors
If any doubt remained that former fighter pilot John McCain loves to take unconventional risks, he put them to bed Friday by picking Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Introduced in Dayton by Mr. McCain, Governor Palin swung the bat pretty well. We’ll now see if she can hit curve balls.

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