Category Archives: Politics

Keeping up with politics, revisited ...

It’s elec­tion sea­son here in the United States, and there are a num­ber of big issues fac­ing our coun­try, espe­cially as we look back on the last 4÷8÷12÷16 years and where they’ve brought us. So a few weeks ago I asked about keep­ing up with pol­i­tics. I’m inter­ested in bal­anced opin­ions that clearly address issues while […]

Fundamentals ...

I’m gath­er­ing, from my read­ing here and there, that most peo­ple don’t know that Her­bert Hoover famously declared that the “fun­da­men­tal busi­ness of the coun­try” was sound. (Can it be “famously” if most peo­ple don’t know it? Never mind.) That partly explains why Repub­li­cans seem eerily com­pelled to echo Hoover; they don’t know what it makes […]

DNC and RNC compressed ...

These are great: (via Ken)

Keeping up with politics? ...

So I’m actu­ally try­ing to keep up with pol­i­tics; call it the spirit of the times. I’m hav­ing a hard time find­ing what to read with­out it com­pletely con­sum­ing my time. Won­der­ing what every­one else reads. Here, I’ll start: Ken shared Don­kle­phant with me about a year ago, a (gen­er­ally) bal­anced source of polit­i­cal news. Not […]

In which I actually address a political rumor ...

A few days late, but I spent the first days of this week read­ing about some dis­crep­an­cies in Sarah Palin’s recent preg­nancy. Sum­mary: some peo­ple think the child is actu­ally her daughter’s (and that her daughter’s cur­rent preg­nancy is a cover-up). iRe­port had an arti­cle, but Karion’s arti­cle was more inter­est­ing (i.e. more sources), and […]

Obama Mobilizing His Followers via Twitter ...

On the Web, Obama’s Twit­ter site now has more than 60,000 fol­low­ers, who receive updates from Obama’s town hall meet­ings and links to his Web site. The arti­cle also men­tions that “Repub­li­can John McCain’s cam­paign, mean­while, has not high­lighted text mes­sages,” Instead McCain is going old-school with viral YouTube videos, [sic] “McCain’s recent ‘Celeb’ ad, which […]

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