digg.com — In 1981, Feast, a literary magazine produced at Occidental College, published two poems by Obama, who was then a student there.

digg.com — For the second time in three months, Barack Obama's choice for Muslim affairs advisor has drawn criticism for dealings with extremist

digg.com — "I voted for Bush, father and son, but this time I'll vote for Obama," he told journalists at the opening of a show on his life and work at the Paris cinematheque.I love Dennis Hopper!!

www.wksu.org — After surging ahead in several public opinions polls in Ohio, Democrat Barack Obama tried to preserve that lead today, by wrapping up two days of campaigning in a key swing region of the state, Appalachia. Obama spoke in Chillicothe. WKSU's Bill Cohen reports.

digg.com — According to the newest CNN poll of polls, Barack Obama's lead over John McCain is at its highest point during this cycle. Taking an average of six new surveys, Obama currently holds an 8-point advantage over his Republican rival, 50-42, with the remaining 8% still undecided...

digg.com — Obama is also proclaiming a need to change the underlying basis of the economy, to abandon the borrow without care and let’s go shopping mentality that has prevailed for decades. It’s a revealing and unexpected dose of reality three weeks before an election.

www.oliverwillis.com — Obama is calling for a temporary tax credit for firms that create new jobs in the United States over the next two years. Which is the dumbest idea I have ever heard. A whopping $3000 tax credit just for hiring somebody. That’s great. Considering it will cost business owners nearly $20,000 (and  More ...

digg.com — The proposals, costing $60 billion over two years, include tax credits for firms that create new jobs, penalty-free withdrawals from retirement accounts and temporarily barring banks from foreclosing on people trying to pay their mortgages.

digg.com — If Barack Obama is elected the next president of the United States, and if he plans to seriously restrict the ownership of firearms, he's likely to be about as successful at targeting guns as the government has been at eliminating the use of marijuana in this country. He won't succeed because, as hi More ...

digg.com — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama unveiled his economic rescue plan for the middle class in Toledo, Ohio today, and as Obama himself put it, “It’s a plan that begins with one word that’s on everyone’s mind, and it’s spelled J-O-B-S.”