(2008-02-28) — President George Bush today signed an executive order granting ‘amnesty’ to foreign-born Sen. John McCain, allowing the presumptive Republican nominee to bypass the Constitutional requirement that a president be a “natural born citizen.”
John Sidney McCain III was born in the Panama Canal zone when his Naval officer father was stationed there in 1936. [...]

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(2008-02-26) — Sen. Hillary Clinton, continuing to “take the high road” as she did at the end of the last presidential debate, said again today that she is “honored” to be running against Sen. Barack Obama.
“I’m honored to ridicule him for his empty rhetoric,” said Sen. Clinton. “I’m honored to point out that his universal [...]

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(2008-02-25) — As her hopes for the Democrat presidential nomination slip away, Sen. Hillary Clinton today tried to answer Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s praise of rival Barack Obama by securing an endorsement of her White House bid from Grammy-award winner Chaka Khan.
“We’ve been working with the Khan people for some time now,” said [...]

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(2008-02-19) — As Cuban President Fidel Castro announced today he would end his half-century of totalitarian rule, sources close to Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama tried to tamp down speculation that they were on “the short list” of potential replacements for the ailing Communist dictator.
Rumors in Cuba carry the currency of mainstream media coverage [...]

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NOTE: ScrappleFace editor Scott Ott writes columns at Townhall.com. Here’s a glimpse of his latest, and a link to read more…
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A Time to Kill Compassionate Conservatism
by Scott Ott at ScottOtt.Townhall.com
It’s time to kill compassionate conservatism.
Actually, we just need to snuff out the adjective, because the modifier
‘compassionate’ is exactly what’s [...]

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(2008-02-14) — Joel Surnow, executive producer of Fox’s terror drama '24', will leave the program immediately, the White House announced today, to help President George Bush block Congressional efforts to ban the CIA from using certain interrogation techniques.
The House measure would prevent the Agency from trying to extract information from terrorists using simulated drowning or [...]

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(2008-02-10) — Former President Bill Clinton today downplayed the significance of his wife’s losses in Maine, Nebraska and Washington over the weekend, noting that just as being half-black helped Sen. Barack Obama win in the south, “his white half gives him the edge in primarily Anglo-American states.”
“Obama gets to play both sides of the race [...]

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