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Let's face it folks: Sex sells. There is nothing like a good sex scandal in Washington to shake up power. Bedroom boondoggles spawn our leadership and shape our policies. This year's election is no different. The media had a misogynistic field day with The Sisterhood of the traveling pantsuits, before…
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Did you see that?! A mom on center stage at the Republican convention accepting the Vice Presidential nomination and holding a baby. There are too few mothers in the boardrooms and high levels of political office, and we need more of them. In fact, women comprise only 16% of Congress (the U.S. ranks…
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In the past several days, before the U.S. Treasury Department acted to seize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, several people asked me if I thought it was a good idea for the government to "nationalize" the two mortgage giants. In virtually none of the coverage of the Bush administration's latest emergency…
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Conservatives Electrified! Could Actually Win! Tide of Hope Turned Back by Fear! Four More Years of Profiteering and Intimidation! Bullies Everywhere Psyched! Blackwater Opens Security Kiosks in Every Starbucks! Halliburton Changes Name to Eat Shit, Suckers, Inc.! George W. Bush to Tour in "Will Rogers…
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As the world celebrates International Literacy Day today, there are few countries being more closely watched than Kenya. In 2003, when newly-elected President Mwai Kibaki announced during his inauguration that primary school would now be free for all Kenyans, over two million additional children poured…
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America should be proud of itself. When all is said and done and all the pundits are finished with their punditry, we have four pretty good candidates running for president and vice president in both parties. Either way, we will make history -- the first African-American president or the first female…
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"Nothing reveals so much about us as how we play the games we play." -- Q, Star Trek There are those who insist that sports and politics don't belong in the same sentence, the same zip code, or the same universe. They mouth platitudes about how these two worlds must be hermetically sealed from one another,…
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Sarah Palin: politician and mother. iReporters weigh in on the difficulty of balancing those two roles.
Posted 27mins 35secs ago by CNN.com - Politics.
Gov. Sarah Palin has lied and dissembled about her past support for the Bridge to Nowhere earmark, as many journalists have reported. Now the Obama campaign is circulating a photograph of Palin literally bragging about her support for the bridge, with a note titled "I supported the Bridge to Nowhere…
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Last week Senator Obama was channeling Aaron Sorkin when he challenged Senator McCain to a debate about which of them had the temperament and judgment to be President of the United States. Parts of his speech read like a page out of Sorkin's pre-The West Wing movie script, The American President. "John…
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I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that…
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The tag line at the Canadian Conservative Party's Web Site, attacking Liberal party candidate Stephane Dion seems oddly 19th century: "Canada cannot afford risky experiments at a time of uncertainty." It's as if Obama were to say, "My opponent's steadiness of purpose is challenged by recent announcements…
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We'd walked past it a couple of times, a simple storefront set back from the street with a small porch, a glimpse of tables inside, unassuming. The Key Lime Cafe. Full at lunch-time, we assumed it was a Maryland version of a diner. We never even ventured up on to the porch.... We walked across the road…
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Hey, this is a good example of genuine grassroots democracy: ObamaTravel.org is a platform that connects volunteers who want to travel to a swing state with financial sponsors and swing state host families. It's sort of a political hybrid of craigslist and Team-in-Training -- volunteers post profiles…
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For more than a year, I have had the opportunity to meet thousands of Western New Yorkers who represent the best of our community as I have campaigned for the 26th Congressional district. This campaign has been invigorating, encouraging, at times ugly, but always worthwhile. It has always been a great…
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Is she ready to be Commander-in-Chief? Too late to ask now - Sarah Palin is already the vice presidential nominee for the man who would be the oldest first-term president in American history.
Full-size video at TPMtv.com.
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The refrain I always hear from Dems 'they've got to fight back'. But once you're 'fighting back' you're at best holding your own and probably losing. You have start the fight. Let the other guy fight back.
Posted 1hr 41mins ago by Talking Points Memo.
A new poll is just out from CNN -- dead even at 48%.
Posted 1hr 48mins ago by Talking Points Memo.
Why would the McCain camp pick Charlie Gibson for the first Palin interview? Hmmm ...
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With the race for the White House nearly tied, the presidential contenders and their running mates are kicking off the first week of post-convention campaigning in battleground states.
Posted 2hrs 2mins ago by CNN.com - Politics.
Just more evidence. Over the weekend Gov. Palin said that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had "gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers." Only they're not even taxpayer funded. It's only the government takeover, which Sen. McCain supports, that could change that. I understand that the TV networks…
Posted 2hrs 9mins ago by Talking Points Memo.
Yglesias has a good point here. The McCain campaign's ability to frame their message around a series of demonstrable lies is only possible because most of the press takes an agnostic position on whether his messages and ads are true or not. But if the press won't, don't we need to stop relying on the…
Posted 2hrs 18mins ago by Talking Points Memo.
The TPM email bag this morning is chock of emails saying, in so many words, is it time to panic? I'm actually not taking much summary license here. Most of the emails I'm talking about actually ends with some form of that sentence. Since a lot of you are asking this I thought I should provide some sort…
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The government seized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in its most dramatic market intervention in decades. Treasury plans to replace the companies' CEOs and provide up to $200 billion as part of the rescue. (Complete coverage)
Posted 3hrs 10mins ago by WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
Over five years since it began, the war in Iraq continues, but with some recent notable progress. On Monday this week, American forces formally returned responsibility for the security of Anbar Province, at one time, the center of the Sunni insurgency...
Posted 3hrs 40mins ago by Mixx: Politics.
Ten days ago, Sen. Joe Biden was the most brilliant vice presidential pick imaginable. He was going to add the experience and foreign policy credential that Sen. Barack Obama's thin resume was missing.
Posted 3hrs 49mins ago by CNN.com - Politics.
Lawmakers return to Capitol Hill on Monday to resume their fight over legislation allowing more offshore oil drilling, in a bid to help relieve sky-high gasoline prices that are hurting the economy and infuriating voters.
Posted 4hrs 22mins ago by CNN.com - Politics.
If John McCain wins, for all that has happened over the last eight years in Iraq and elsewhere, we would get a new president even more closely tied to the DC neoconservative axis than President Bush has ever been.
Posted 5hrs 7mins ago by Talking Points Memo.
A coalition of right-wing churches is pushing a test case to allow them to be tax exempt and endorse political candidates.
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From MSNBC ...
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New McCain-Palin TV ad hits the airwaves touting "The Original Mavericks." That and the day's other political news in the TPM Election Central Morning Roundup.
Posted 5hrs 41mins ago by Talking Points Memo.
Months before the Bush administration ends, historians and open-government advocates are concerned that Vice President Cheney, who has long bristled at requirements to disclose his records, will destroy or withhold key documents that illustrate his role i
Posted 11hrs 47mins ago by Mixx: Politics.
Students at Spellman college hold a rally to promote the Campaign for Change and voter registration. They discuss how young people across the country are mobilized to get the vote out for Senator Obama and Jasmine Guy stops by to show her support of the s
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Change is coming!
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USAToday/Gallup: McCain 54%, Obama 44% among likely voters.
Posted 14hrs ago by Talking Points Memo.
Investors were cheered, but analysts were skeptical about the long-term value of the government's decision to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Posted 14hrs 3mins ago by WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
Embracing the theme of change, Obama and McCain are making their cases quite differently. Obama focuses on a reversal of Bush's policies, while McCain emphasizes independence from his party.
Posted 14hrs 13mins ago by WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
I spent most of the day today traveling and then giving a talk up at Union College a few hours north of New York City. So I was offline most of the day. And though I heard about Charlie Gibson bagging the first interview with Sarah Palin, I was eager to get home and read the details. Well, now I've…
Posted 14hrs 21mins ago by Talking Points Memo.
Just read this piece in the Times about MSNBC pulling Olbermann and Matthews off as hosts on major political events. I see all the different arguments. But it seems pretty obvious that the network got cowed by complaints from the McCain campaign.
Posted 14hrs 29mins ago by Talking Points Memo.
Corporate executives, who once discounted McCain, have been key to the Republican's rebound on the fund-raising circuit, a new analysis shows.
Posted 15hrs 9mins ago by WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
Three Republicans from Colorado Springs describe why they're breaking the mold and voting for Senator Obama this November.
Posted 17hrs 5mins ago by Mixx: Politics.
Top auto executives will launch a lobbying push this week for as much as $50 billion in low-cost government loans to help beleaguered auto makers and their suppliers.
Posted 17hrs 9mins ago by WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
The Bush administration will push Congress to pass legislation needed to secure a nuclear-cooperation deal with India before its term expires.
Posted 17hrs 41mins ago by WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
Promising a "very bipartisan approach" to how he'll run his administration, Sen. John McCain said in an interview broadcast Sunday that he would appoint Democrats to his Cabinet.
Posted 23hrs 1min ago by CNN.com - Politics.
Dick Cheney issued blunt criticisms of Russia at a security conference, and called for Western unity in meeting its challenges.
Posted 1 day 1hr ago by WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
Russia is selling arms to Damascus and Iran with the clear knowledge that they are being channeled to Hezbollah and terror groups in Iraq.
Posted 1 day 1hr ago by Mixx: Politics.
There's a lot of complaining that the McCain campaign won't allow anyone to interview Sarah Palin. And for the major news outlets that would be in line for such an interview there's a logic to keeping up the drumbeat. But McCain campaign manager Rick Davis is right: It's their campaign to run. They…
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Will she sell this one on eBay?
Tucson-based Global Aircraft Solutions Inc. on Thursday delivered Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's new campaign plane, an Embraer 190 regional jet complete with the Republican ticket's campaign logo on the fuselage.
Posted 1 day 3hrs ago by Mixx: Politics.
"Dr Plaga’s calculations predict an explosion of the LHC, that would also directly threaten the city of Geneva. This production of an extremely radiating object, a so-called “semi-stable black hole would be indestructible and unremoveable..."
Posted 1 day 7hrs ago by Mixx: Politics.
A new voting system uses the Internet, cryptography, and "magic" ink to ensure that everyone's vote is counted.
Posted 1 day 19hrs ago by Mixx: Politics.
Mike Huckabee's memories of painful childhood showers with Lava soap didn't cause many at the Republican Convention to pull out their cell phones and schedule a session with their shrink! It wasn't that kind of audience.
Posted 2 days ago by Mixx: Politics.
The Bush administration reversed its opposition to a plan backed by Democrats to provide $8 billion in emergency funding to pay for transportation projects.
Posted 2 days ago by WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
Iranian officials have ratcheted up pressure on their Iraqi counterparts to reject a deal laying out the terms of a continued American military presence in Iraq.
Posted 3 days ago by WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
Cheney sought to rally the international community behind embattled Georgia and its president in a brief visit aimed at underscoring U.S. support for its ally in the strategically important Caucasus.
Posted 3 days ago by WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
The Iraqi government is seeking to buy 36 advanced F-16 fighters from the U.S., a move that could help reduce its reliance on U.S. air power, while creating a concern for its neighbors.
Posted 3 days ago by WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sentenced to four years in prison in a public corruption case that upended Washington politics and contributed to the Republican loss of Congress in 2006.
Posted 3 days ago by WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick agreed to resign after pleading guilty to two felony counts in a deal with prosecutors, ending six-month-long saga that had all but paralyzed the city.
Posted 3 days ago by WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
FEMA is racing to reposition supplies ahead of Tropical Storm Hanna, and is reworking plans for what is shaping up to be a frenetic hurricane season.
Posted 4 days ago by WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
The U.S. is preparing to lease swaths of the Outer Continental Shelf to companies that want to erect massive wind turbines.
Posted 5 days ago by WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
Cheney will try to loosen Russia's grip on Central Asian oil and natural-gas exports on his trip to the Caucasus this week, but he may be too late.
Posted 5 days ago by WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
The EPA rejected a plan to build a huge water pump to reduce flooding in the Mississippi Delta, a victory for environmentalists.
Posted 5 days ago by WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
