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Sarah Palin already has a blog?

There are no trash cans in Denver. There are waste stations, with four or five receptacles, manned by volunteers who take your trash and place it in the appropriate bin. Shouldn’t these people be phone banking or raising money or something?

McMegan reads questions over McCain’s potentially apocryphal Christmas story and wonders, “What, exactly, is the point of this exercise?” It’s an interesting response. She notes that it’s an incredibly hard story to disprove, and that it’s unlikely to hurt McCain. I agree with both claims. In fact, not only do I think it’s unlikely to […]

We’ve talked about about Proposition 1 in California, which would force a huge increase in transit funding. But until today, I didn’t know much abut Proposition 2: “Standards for Confining Farm Animals.” This is, in essence, a ballot initiative meant to address cruelty in livestock production. Paul Shapiro writes that “this moderate measure merely seeks […]

Dani Rodrik has a dream: I once had a fantasy. I would devote a whole year, perhaps a sabbatical, just to reading and thinking, and would not write anything. I mean really nothing: no papers, no articles, no op-eds, no contributions to collected volumes. I would turn down all invitations to contribute papers to conferences […]

Hillary Clinton has an e-mail out today entitled “How We Win,” which argues, in bold type, “We are depending on the voters of Puerto Rico in our fight to secure the nomination.” It ends with a plea for donations, particularly from new supporters, which the Clinton campaign says will be matched by a group of […]

“This foolishness is a reminder that none of these people–none of the vicious, mendacious, naive, simplistic, unapologetic, neo-colonialist ideologues who promulgated this disaster–should have even the vaguest claim on the time or tolerance of fair-minded people. Fred Kagan’s certainty is an obscenity, his claim to expertise a farce,” writes Joe Klein, who seems

nation article on feeling bad for sex, ariely insight on how it changes rationality.

I’ll be on CNBC’s Larry Kudlow show between 6 and 6:30 Eastern time arguing about the virtue of rapacious corporate capitalism, John McCain, etc… Never mind, mysterious cancellation.

Atrios asks, “The question really is about why Obama can raise $5 million in a day and (presumably) Clinton can’t. I actually don’t really have an answer. Thoughts? Both of them are capable of getting lots of people to vote for them.” The answer here speaks to the difference between the campaigns. I think a […]