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In which I contend that the Right's anxiety about the FD's impending return is, in part, aimed at feuling opposition to Net Neutrality--and that Democrats should drop the former subject ASAP.
First this , then this , and now this: Maybe Palin is destined for a job at Fox. (Via the Daily Beast .)
That's the conclusion of Bob Novak,a/k/a the Prince of Darkness, who writes : [Obama] may have opened the door to enactment of the long-deferred liberal agenda, but he neither received a broad mandate from the public nor the needed large congressional...
Is it just me, or is this a remarkably gracious speech by a president whose legacy was just repudiated in emphatic terms? Brings me back to '00, that does.
Writing for the New York Post, former Phoenix reporter Seth Gitell does an excellent job analyzing the implications of Barack Obama's big win from a politico-racial perspective. There are several sharp insights in the piece, but one in particular...
...Perhaps a bit much? I hate to be a wet blanket, but asking the crowd to pray that they can follow Obama and create the Kingdom of God on earth seems excessive. So does putting an explicitly Christian gloss on the proceedings. Also, as an aside, the...
Unless I'm missing something, the FiveThirtyEight.com brainiac was the first to call the election for Barack Obama this evening.
...In an interview with CBS's Katie Couric. Given the governor's nervous-Nellie tendencies, this is great news. Pennsylvania has long been the big prize as far as McCain-Palin are concerned; without it, it's hard to see a path to victory for...
John McCain is ending the election on a low note. Here, via CNN , is the translated conclusion of a robocall that started going out to Spanish-language voters in Florida this afternoon: Don't give Castro what he wants. Go vote right now for John McCain...
Both CBS News and ABC News are currently leading their Web coverage with stories on polling-place problems. Here's a snippet of CBS's piece: Reports are coming in from election protection groups suggesting that Virginia, a key battleground state...
When last we left John McCain's running mate, she was accusing the media of violating her First Amendment rights . Maybe it's the relief of getting to the end of the campaign, but today, Sarah Palin is in a more conciliatory mood today. From her...
I have a running argument with a friend about which anti-Obama attacks are racist. For example, I thought the McCain camp's Obama-disrespects-Palin ad played on toxic racist sentiments involving black men and white women. My friend didn't see...
Got an e-mail this morning from none other than Newt Gingrich, who urged me to stick it to the media by going to the polls. Because, he explained, the media don't want conservatives to vote: The latest tactic in this elite media campaign has been...
For months now, my colleague David Bernstein has been assuring me that Barack Obama's going to win the presidency by a wide margin tomorrow. But no matter what he says--and despite how promising the polls currently look--I can't help expecting...
For the past day or so, Fox News and the McCain campaign have been pushing the whole LA Times-Rashid Khalidi videotape story . In case you've missed it, the Times apparently has a videotape of Obama saying nice things about Khalidi, a former U. of...
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