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 minutes, I'll offer some a few local observations about Palin.She's likable and -- for what little...
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.
Huh. Well, I guess maybe that secures Alaska's 3 electoral votes for McCain. It should also play well in British Columbia. If McCain is picking Palin (and we should note.
China isn't comfortable with the rules Russia wants to play with.A summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a seven- nation security alliance that includes China and four former Soviet republics, yesterday declined to back its recognition of two breakaway Georgian regions. China expressed ``concern,'' said Qin...
Let this serve as an open thread for the Stanford-Oregon State game. Or anything else you want to talk about...
Duss at Think Progress:Earlier today, Think Progress contacted John Hagee Ministries to see if erstwhile John McCain endorser Rev. Hagee saw the Lord’s hand in reports that President Bush might.
On this date in 1963, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom brought several hundred thousand Americans together in the nation’s capital, where -- depending on whom you might have asked -- they had convened un support of national civil rights legislation, to chastise the...
A commenter spotted this howler from Rosen's article:In every presidential election from 1988 to 2004, the court had a six-justice majority in favor of upholding Roe v. Wade.Is this why.
The ticker appears to have drifted past 5000000 this morning. It's fair to say that's more than we ever expected, and that we do appreciate your business.
It's s a beautiful morning in Boulder, and later today I'm going to take a bus the 25 miles down the turnpike to Denver and Invesco Field, to hear Barack Obama accept his party's nomination for president, on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's I...
BBC:Ethiopia is prepared to withdraw troops from Somalia even if the interim government is not stable, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has said.Ethiopia invaded its neighbour in 2006 to oust.
I have some minor quibbles with Jeffrey Rosen's defense of Joe Biden's handling of the Bork and Thomas confirmation hearings. While I agree with Rosen, for example, that the looking.