We are used to liberals and hippies banging on about the Iraq war being motivated by oil. But for John McCain to suggest it?

In this video, the Republican nominee and war hero promises his redneck power base an energy policy that will “eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East”. Wait, what? This gaffe will return to haunt Walnuts – as he’s affectionately known – trust me.

September 11 defined America in the 21st century. The September 11 archive documents all the live broadcasts on that fateful day, from channels such as ABC and the BBC. As well as being an important resource in conserving the memory of that tragic episode, the site gives fascinating clips of US television minutes before the first plane crashed into the twin towers at 8.45am.

There’s Good Morning America, for instance, which was broadcasting a Sex and the City discussion at the time. Is there a more potent symbol of the West’s painful transition into the War on Terror than the interruption of a sitcom that defined the vapidity and security of the 1990s?

Barack Hussein Obama, possible Muslim and probable President, has gone on the David Letterman show. He’s there to tell viewers ten things they didn’t know about him. These include such facts as “I’ve not slept s ince October” and, sweetly, “When I tell my kids to clean my room, I finish with ‘I’m Barack Obama and I approve this message’”. It makes you wonder what the Brownite equivalent would be. Perhaps a confession that he wouldn’t have taken the damn job if he’d known it’d be this much hassle.

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