Weekly Extras

Election 2008:

NYT: An adviser molds a tighter, more aggressive McCain campaign

Guardian: Storm as Oprah says no to Palin interview

Telegraph: Barack Obama 'wanted to join US military'

Wash Times: Obama's verbal slip fuels his critics (Pearce: I do not believe BHO is a Muslim; I take him at his word that he is a Christian.  This was a particularly unfortunate blooper given the vicious smear campaign against him.)

US Economy:

WSJ: U.S. Seizes Mortgage Giants

NYT: Mortgage crisis has Washington putting aside free-market ideology

AFP: Detroit's sputtering Big Three turn to Washington for help

North Carolina:

N&O: Tolerance wears thin: Johnston's sheriff says Hispanics spread crime and dodge taxes. Yet he respects their hard work and expresses pity for their plight