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Elsewhere: Palin's Email, Silver's Warning, Blaming Spitzer

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September 17, 2008 | 5:06 p.m
Simcha Felder doesn't let his primary loss get him down<br /> (flickr )
Simcha Felder doesn't let his primary loss get him down
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Before John McCain said today that he saw the mortgage crisis coming, he said that he didn't see it coming.

Sarah Palin's personal email account, which she has allegedly used to conduct state business, was hacked, and screenshots posted on the internet.

Jonathan Martin reflects on the roll "fake" political ads.

The Obama campaign is having a "Women's Week of Action."

Joe Conason finds McCain's populist-style mockery of a high-dollar Obama fund-raiser to be somewhat hypocritical.

Sheldon Silver said of the Wall Street crisis, "It will affect our ability as a state to fund essential infrastructure projects, schools, and our higher education system.” He also expressed willingness to call the Assembly back to Albany.

In "certain circles," according to Liz, Eliot Spitzer is being blamed for Wall Street's woes.

Jim Wyne, who lost the Staten Island Republican Congressional primary with about 40 percent of the vote, is going to run as a write-in.

Con Ed and another big utility company were forced to return some money to customers because of poor service.

Charles Barron sounds off about Charlie Rangel.

The author of a new book on Dick Cheney says, "The news in my book about this process is that Cheney never filled out his own questionnaire; that the heart surgeon who vouched for his health never met him or looked at his records; and that Bush and Cheney never interviewed anyone for the job until Cheney already had it nailed."

And, since when did we start living in a place where thousand-pound slabs of glass fall from the sky, over and over and over again, and nothing happens?

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