No Straw Men

LinkedIn members who work in the energy sector will have the option to receive relevant, targeted Times stories, on NYTimes.com, which cover the energy business.

Interesting take by Roll Call cartoonist R.J. Matson.

There are wrong ways to dismiss someone. But is there really a right way to do it?

The GOP wants you to help it figure out its party platform. Today, the Republican Platform Committee launched a site to gather comments and policy suggestions directly from the party faithful (and anyone else willing to give up their e-mail address).

Fannie has been able to purchase political immunity for decades by disguising its vast profit-making machine in the cloak of “affordable housing.” To be more precise, Fan and Fred have been protected by an alliance of Capitol Hill and Wall Street.

Using Frankie Valli’s 1960s love song, “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” as the soundtrack, the campaign on Tuesday took a direct aim in a new Web video at what it called the media’s “bizarre fascination with Barack Obama.”

In a nation that holds itself up as a citadel of free enterprise, the government has transformed from a reliable guarantor into effectively the only lender for millions of Americans engaged in the largest transactions of their lives.

He has been making a series of verbal slips—invariably described as “gaffes”—which are starting to ricochet from liberal blogs to the mainstream media. And fairly or not, some critics are suggesting the 71-year-old Republican candidate is showing his

What makes this more than a gimmick is that by prompting a vote on the favorite audio track, folks are motivated to watch the video not once, but twice. Steve Schmidt’s reputation for hammering a message home through repetition is well-earned.

Military commanders had only to read the law to see that Congress wasn’t serious about protecting gay service members. The law’s text is a tissue of barely disguised bigotry.