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1. Campaign Desk

   The Palin-for-President Fixation

   November 24, 2009 02:11 PM

   We’ve probably devoted too many pixels already to arguing that the national political media is paying more attention to Sarah Palin than is warranted. But the press can’t break its Palin fixation, and since the latest argument that we need... Continue reading

2. Campaign Desk

   Other Than That, Mrs. Lincoln…

   November 23, 2009 03:42 PM

   What does Blanche Lincoln want, and why does she want it? The question is, at the moment, more consequential than it might normally be. As a member of the small, happy band of moderate Democrats who control the fate of... Continue reading

3. The Kicker

   Well, It May Deserve an Award in Something

   November 20, 2009 02:12 PM

   Memo to Sean Hannity, who is calling for James O’Keefe, Hannah Giles, and Andrew Breitbart to get a “journalism award” for their video sting of ACORN: Generally, when in possession of what one believes to be newsworthy information, the journalistic... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   Let’s Get this Party Organized

   November 20, 2009 11:44 AM

   In Politico today, Ken Vogel has a very interesting and worthwhile article about the emerging internal conflicts—both philosophical and personal—within the Tea Party movement. Vogel writes: The grass-roots activists powering the movement have become increasingly divided on core... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   Now a Little Bit Less Excluded

   November 20, 2009 09:37 AM

   Today’s New York Times features a front-page news analysis by Kevin Sack about the controversy sparked by the new cancer screening guidelines. The article closes with this graf: “It’s going to take time, there’s no doubt about it,”... Continue reading

6. Behind the News

   Everybody’s On Edge

   November 20, 2009 08:00 AM

   I think half the news sites I read have lately been running a highly irritating ad for The Economist, which covers the entire screen when you click on a link. I usually skip the thing as fast as I can,... Continue reading

7. Campaign Desk

   Popular Diplomacy

   November 19, 2009 04:52 PM

   As media narratives go, this whole “Barack Obama is a popular individual and a gifted speaker with a compelling personal story, but doesn’t automatically get everything he wants!” thing is getting awfully old, awfully fast. The theme popped up months... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   Thoughts on the Gelman/Silver Op-Ed

   November 19, 2009 02:24 PM

   As anyone who’s read my writing can probably tell, I think political journalism should pay more attention to what political scientists have to say. So I was heartened to see that today’s New York Times includes an op-ed... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   Kudos to Times on Chamber Membership

   November 19, 2009 11:05 AM

   The lead story in today’s special “Business of Green” section in The New York Times is about the controversy over the Chamber of Commerce’s stance on climate change. Reporter John M. Broder notes that some high-profile members have... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    Collins Outlines the Columnist’s Credo

    November 19, 2009 10:24 AM

    Gail Collins owns up to a writer's truth today: I have never believed that everything happens for a reason. But I do feel very strongly that everything happens so that it can be turned into a column. The rest--which has... Continue reading

11. The Kicker

    Brooks vs. Brooks on ‘Fiscal Puritanism’

    November 17, 2009 02:21 PM

    David Brooks, in his column today, writes: “The standard thing these days is for Americans to scold each other for our profligacy, to urge fiscal Puritanism. But it’s not clear Americans have ever really been self-disciplined.” That sort... Continue reading

12. Campaign Desk

    Straying from the Facts

    November 17, 2009 01:33 PM

    Over the weekend, there was a bit of a dust-up between the Associated Press, Sarah Palin, and their respective supporters over the AP’s “fact check” of Palin’s campaign memoir, Going Rogue. Much of the discussion focused on the AP’s decision... Continue reading

13. Campaign Desk

    What Money Can’t Buy

    November 17, 2009 08:00 AM

    Robert Pear’s excellent story in Sunday’s New York Times, about how lobbyists framed the health care debate in Congress, probably made the front page because of its “smoking gun” quality. Pear, having noticed that House members from both... Continue reading

14. The Kicker

    New Palin Polling Data from the Post

    November 16, 2009 10:38 AM

    Apropos of my Friday piece on Sarah Palin, a new Washington Post poll finds her drawing somewhat stronger support among Republicans than the Gallup poll I mentioned. Full data seems not to be available to the public yet,... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    Fact-checking Bra-Burning, and Related Thoughts

    November 15, 2009 11:53 AM

    Kudos to Jessica Valenti for setting interviewer Deborah Solomon straight on a point of fact in a Q&A in this week’s New York Times Magazine (and to the magazine, which heavily edits these conversations, for including this exchange):... Continue reading

16. Campaign Desk

    Sarah Palin: Just Not That Popular

    November 13, 2009 02:24 PM

    The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page takes a break from running Sarah Palin-authored op-eds today and instead runs a piece by one of her biggest journalistic supporters, Matthew Continetti of The Weekly Standard. It is, as Brendan Nyhan... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Government Programs Don’t Always Increase the Deficit

    November 13, 2009 11:50 AM

    The federal budget deficit, it seems, is back on the White House’s agenda. David Brooks, in his column today, asserted in passing that once (if?) health care reform passes, President Obama will "pick some fights with his own... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    Lou Dobbs and Cesar Chavez, Back in the Day

    November 12, 2009 03:59 PM

    In the wake of Lou Dobbs’s abrupt resignation from CNN, there’s been plenty of speculation about what he’ll do next: Jump to Fox? Run for president? Indulge his love of outer space? But the... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    Response, Arab and American, to the NYT’s Blackwater Story

    November 11, 2009 04:38 PM

    Among the questions prompted by the New York Times’s latest national-security scoop—this one alleging that executives at the private security firm Blackwater approved a plan to bribe Iraqi officials in the wake of a 2007 episode in which... Continue reading

20. Campaign Desk

    Organizing Armey

    November 11, 2009 03:44 PM

    I’m late to the party in discussing Michael Sokolove’s profile of Dick Armey in last week’s New York Times Magazine, but for anyone interested in the current state of American politics, it’s really worth a read. Much of... Continue reading

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