No Straw Men

“I can remember, as governor, I stayed in touch with all kinds of people around the country, firing off e-mails at all times of the day to stay in touch with my pals … There’s no better way to communicate with them than through e-mail.”

McCain’s computer illiteracy doesn’t reflect a lack of curiosity–it reflects a lack of necessity.

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When it comes to presidential politics, you either are or you aren’t. And Barack Obama aren’t. If you can’t grasp the simple math of that statement, you don’t know much about elections in this country. It’s not about the war, or the economy, or the falter

Should criminals have equal access to scarce medical treatments?

Google Trends says the Heritage Foundation is winning the battle for traffic among prominent Think Tank Web sites, followed by the Cato Institute, Brookings and then the Center for American Progress.

Five years ago, Joe Trippi told Mathew Gross, one of the bloggers then working in obscurity on the Howard Dean campaign, to “start an ‘Ask the Dean Campaign’ thread over at the Smirking Chimp,” a heavily trafficked forum for Democratic activists.

“In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found,” James Madison wrote in 1793, “than in that clause which asks the president to give Congress a courtesy call whenever he’s picked a new country to invade.”