Where's Sarah?

You won’t see Sarah Palin on any of the network news shows this morning, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t keeping busy. My Republican insider friend Sid tells me that Schmidt/Davis are keeping her away from any more media interviews for obvious reasons. Her job for the next few weeks leading up to election day is playing attack dog on the phoney Ayers/Obama connection. With polling numbers plummeting like a stone, it appears that the Ayers card is Schmidt/Davis’ last hail-Mary gambit in an otherwise failed and erratic campaign. While the maverick war hero still tries looking presidential for Tuesday’s debate, he’s sent Palin off down the low road.

From Goebbels' film vault?

For those educators concerned about the rise of militarism and fascist social movements here at home, you have a right to be. If you’ve gone to the movies lately you’ve no doubt had to sit through a grueling two-and-a-half minutes of the latest Kid Rock/Dale Earnhardt Jr. production of Warrior, a National Guard promotional video that appears to come straight out of the Joseph Goebbels' film vault. Shame on the big theater chains for making this piece of trash ubiquitous.

The surge comes home

Another big reason for concern is the illegal redeployment by Bush/Cheney of an infantry division from Iraq back to the U.S. to train in curbing civil disorders that may arise out of the current economic collapse. The new mission, according to the Army Times, marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities. Steve Fox Campaign Director of the American Freedom Campaign Action Fund, says the redeployment is in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.