Looking a little deeper

In The Times Online, an interesting analysis of the state of American politics: It was a great victory - but not for the Left . The Guardia...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) (See the posts in chronological order ) November 5. The election was upon us, a scary ti...

Can't resist this

Here's a novel take on a political ad. Subtle but effective. It's the 'Wassup' gang from the Budweiser commercials, 8 years ...

Political language

A topic that needs more discussion, and here's a great one from Anil Dash on What Sarah Palin is Saying .

What they think matters

Via Achenblog , a fun graphic from Foreign Policy: If the world could vote ... Heresy to some who think we should ignore what the world thin...

Help for researchers

I hadn't heard of Google's 'In Quotes' until I saw it mentioned in the AskSam newsletter. What an intriguing idea, and hope...

Politics today

Interesting stuff (updated, see last entries): From Christopher Buckley (son of William F.) in The Beast : Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting fo...

For those who care....

...about politics, anyway, an amazing effort by the staff of Esquire to put together a database of endorsements of every Congressional-and-...

Cheap shots, or real facts?

Here's a well- researched compilation at Random Pixels of various published reports on the details of John McCain's service record. ...

Where's a news researcher when you need one?

Interesting stuff in this first part of Katie Couric's interview with Sarah Palin. Obviously, she needs a researcher: Couric : But can ...

Charts, sometimes no other words needed

From Digby , today: (Via Economists for Obama ) From South Florida Daily Blog , a few days ago: (Via Little Joe ) Or even this earlier versi...

Follow up

Just a bit more on the last post. Just in case you missed it, we knew Tina Fey would be perfect as Palin but this is amazing: http://www.yo...

That woman

Amazing the amount of interest Sarah Palin's raising around the country. I heard talk of her everywhere this week, places I wouldn't...

Political conventions, protests and politics (shades of '68)

Deja vu. Amazing news about the arrest of Amy Goodman and two colleagues from FSTV and Democracy Now , as St. Paul and Minneapolis police ...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) The Whole World is Watching The Democratic National Convention opened in Chicago on Augu...

Coverage, or publicity?

Over at the Nieman Watchdog, George Lardner wonders, in Spreading Lies, Rather Than Debunking Them , about a recent Washington Post story th...

Fun with birth certificates

This is just too good to pass by. Question: How many presidents (or candidates) have gone by different surnames? From David Weigel at Reason...

40 Years Ago

( An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) On August 5, the Republican National Convention opened its sessions at the Miami Beach...

How good is your political information?

I love this column in HuffPost by Peggy Drexler: The High Cost of Low Information . With so much information out there, sometimes it's e...

"Trained Democracy Superheroes"

That's what this MSNBC report calls librarians, specifically librarian (and former newspaper reporter) Carol Kreck, who was ticketed for...