Month: August 2008
Ari and Eric have have dug up some fun details about Sarah Palin's first few months as mayor of Wasilla. Elected to bestow "change" upon the town, Palin instead went.
I'm currently reading Nixonland, Rick Perlstein's brilliant cultural history of the United States through the lens of the rise and fall and rise again of Richard Nixon (I don't know.
If we don't stop the revaunchist Washington Husky football team in Eugene tonight, the result will be eighty-five times worse than Munich.
Caveat emptor, President Kokoity.The Kremlin moved swiftly to tighten its grip on Georgia’s breakaway regions yesterday as South Ossetia announced that it would soon become part of Russia, which will.
Chuckie:The Palin selection completely undercuts the argument about Obama's inexperience and readiness to lead -- on the theory that because Palin is a maverick and a corruption fighter, she bolsters.
Brad Plumer has the goods on claims that Palin was opposed to the Bridge To Nowhere. She favored it, in the fine Alaska Republican tradition of joyous lunches at the.
I'm supposed to be finishing my tenure file today and writing syllabi, but seeing as how my presence here as an Alaskan makes me undeservedly relevant for the next ten.
I think Rob hits it below--the Palin pick can be seen as a way to try to attract disaffected women, like his attempt to float the possibility of a pro-choice.