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Cindy, We Hardly Know You
June 30, 2008 12:53 PM
If you don’t feel like you know a thing about Cindy McCain, this Newsweek profile by Holly Bailey is worth a look. The salacious bits in her bio—her 14 year age gap with her husband, the fact that... Continue reading
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Where’s the Outrage?
June 27, 2008 02:35 PM
On Wednesday, Ralph Nader entered the campaign churn for the first time since he announced his run on Meet the Press four months ago. This week’s appearance was not well received. “Unneeded at Any Speed” and “offensive,” said a Washington... Continue reading
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Len Downie, Author
June 25, 2008 05:06 PM
Another excerpt from that valedictory interview with the Washington Post’s Len Downie, this one on his plans to write fiction in retirement: West Lafayette, Ind.: Why write a novel? Are you perpetuating the "every journalist has a manuscript... Continue reading
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Len Downie, Automaton
June 25, 2008 02:44 PM
As flagged by Romenesko, here’s a hard to believe exchange from an online Q&A with now-officially outgoing Washington Post editor Len Downie: Arlington, Va.: You are known for being so objective that you don't vote. Now that you are... Continue reading
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PDF: Where the Web, Politics, (and Hotpants) Met
June 25, 2008 12:52 PM
On Monday and Tuesday, several hundred lovers of technology and democracy converged on New York’s Time-Warner Center to talk about how the internet is reshaping our politics. The Personal Democracy Forum was, not surprisingly, an Obama friendly crowd, serious... Continue reading
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Annals of Worthless Quotes, Pt. 2765
June 20, 2008 11:30 AM
Sometimes a quote provides evidence or elucidates a point. Sometimes it fills a hole and makes you scratch your head. From a Politico piece on how the Electoral College might come into play in November: [Former George H. W.... Continue reading
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Turning Point: Immigration
June 17, 2008 09:17 AM
This is part eight of a series on the start of the 2008 presidential election’s general campaign. Links to the rest of the series can be found at the bottom of the article. Way back in March of 2006, a... Continue reading
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Mr. Sinclair Goes to Washington
June 13, 2008 04:24 PM
Perhaps you’ve not yet heard of Larry Sinclair, the YouTube star who attests that in 1999 he shared coke, crack, and hot man-on-man action with Barack Obama sometime "between November 3 and November 9 in the Chicago, Illinois area." ... Continue reading
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Big Fish, Low Rates
June 13, 2008 11:32 AM
This week, The Wall Street Journal exposed that Obama V.P.-vetter James Johnson had obtained favorable loan rates with the help of Angelo Mozilo, Countrywide’s now sub-prime-disgraced CEO. Yesterday, Portfolio’s Dan Golden advanced the story, finding a “Friend... Continue reading
Darts and Laurels

Dart to the Ottawa Citizen
June 12, 2008 09:00 AM
Dart to the Ottawa Citizen for a little Canadian logrolling. When the Canwest media conglomerate launched a proprietary wire service and relocated the anchor of Global National, its nightly news program, to Canada’s capital city, the Citizen flooded the zone.... Continue reading
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Turning Point
June 6, 2008 10:21 AM
This is Part Two of a series on the start of the 2008 presidential election’s general campaign. Links to the rest of the series can be found at the bottom of the article. From New Hampshire to Nevada to North... Continue reading
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What About Edwards?
May 22, 2008 04:04 PM
Jonathan Alter’s most recent Newsweek column rightly takes Hillary Clinton to task for her insistence that more people have voted for her than Obama. That claim needs to be aggressively footnoted, not only because Clinton seeks to include... Continue reading
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Press Declares Victory, Even If Obama Won’t
May 21, 2008 10:24 AM
On Sunday, The New York Times, published a piece entitled “Obama to Return to Iowa, Possibly to Declare Victory.” It reported that at the just-announced event, Obama “could end up with enough pledged delegates to proclaim, without fear of... Continue reading
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McCain Promises Weekly Presidential Press Conferences
May 15, 2008 10:38 AM
Interesting and laudable. From McCain'sprepared remarks for today’s big vision speech: My administration will set a new standard for transparency and accountability. I will hold weekly press conferences. I will regularly brief the American people on the progress our... Continue reading
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Stars and Stripes forever
May 14, 2008 05:01 PM
In January, I wrote about the complicated contracting relationship between Stars and Stripes, the military-backed paper that insists on its editorial independence, and “America Supports You,” a Pentagon public affairs initiative created under Assistant Secretary of Defense Allison Barber... Continue reading
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Those Obama “Concerns”
May 14, 2008 12:31 PM
Yesterday’s Washington Post featured a story on race and the Obama campaign, one that went beyond the tea leaves of exit polls and voting behavior. Kevin Merida, with contributions from Peter Slevin, catalogued a half-dozen instances of clear racism... Continue reading
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Campbell Robertson, Sometimes Cartoonist
May 9, 2008 10:09 AM
Usually, Campbell Robertson, as a thirty-one-year-old theater reporter for The New York Times, writes articles on Broadway and the actors and shows that populate it. But recently the paper dispatched him to North Carolina, where he used the traditional tools... Continue reading
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Rejecting Post-Rationality
May 7, 2008 11:11 AM
This morning, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough—and much of the press—seemed to be of two minds about what last night’s results would mean for Hillary Clinton. “She needs a miracle,” he said. And then, twenty minutes later, as if almost by force... Continue reading
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The Late Great States
May 6, 2008 09:53 PM
Remember Pennsylvania? It was to be the last mega-state, the primary of primaries that would cap off almost four months of contests. A victory there by Obama would certainly end the race. A victory by Clinton would allow her to... Continue reading
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Gassed Up
May 5, 2008 08:03 AM
One thing that struck me about last week’s coverage of Hillary Clinton and John McCain’s proposal to declare a gas tax holiday is how aggressive the press was been in showing the idea’s ridiculousness. For example, on Friday, NPR’s Steve... Continue reading

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