On one single page of the newspaper today were headlines about how the United States will rely on Russia to get into space; a plaintive and weak cry from the U.S. that Russia has no "privileged interests" in Central Asia; and how Wachovia is on the verge of collapse.
...Stephen Viscusi | Posted October 7, 2008 | Business
Wow! The unemployment figures released last Friday do not have to be as high as they are. Firing people in a frenzied economy is usually good public relations for a publicly-traded company because it's the most visible way to cut costs. And for privately-owned firms, it's simply "monkey see, monkey...
Karen Ocamb | Posted October 7, 2008 | Politics
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is the not-so-unexpected "star" of the new Yes on 8 commercial designed to get voters to overturn marriage equality in California on Nov. 4.
In an extemporaneous speech before the LGBT Long Beach Lambda Democratic Club Sunday night aboard the Queen Mary, Newsom...
Jill Brooke | Posted October 7, 2008 | Living
With the confidence of a captain of the girl's basketball team, Sarah Palin swished her way into the office of Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, took a jump shot at being Governor of Alaska, and then slam dunked the nomination for the Republican vice presidency.
Along the way,...
Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer | Posted October 7, 2008 | Media
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted October 7, 2008 | Politics
Republicans like to proudly claim that they love America. John McCain likes to insist proudly he always puts America First. But in their American Pride, they strangely have left out an important part of America - the President of the United States.
No doubt this is just an oversight...
Lee Camp | Posted October 7, 2008 | Politics
Sandi DuBowski | Posted October 7, 2008 | Politics
This September, I held my annual Virgo Delight birthday party - a celebration of Virgos, their lovers, admirers and friends. I had hoped Barack, Michelle, Malia or Sasha were Virgos but then to my dismay, discovered McCain was a Virgo, born August 29th. On his 69th birthday in 2005, when...
Fred Graver | Posted October 7, 2008 | Off The Bus
Standing at a rally of student Obama supporters in Lynchburg, Virginia on Friday night, I heard something that made me realize that this race and this campaign are historic in ways we won't fully realize for many, many years.
In front of a hundred or so Randolph College students stood...
Linda Milazzo | Posted October 7, 2008 | Politics
On Saturday I went to Carson, California, to attend a rally for Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin. For those who aren't familiar with the city of Carson, it's approximately 19 miles south of downtown Los Angeles. In the 2004 Presidential election, Carson, which had a population of just under...
Stephen C. Rose | Posted October 7, 2008 | Media
By Stephen C. Rose
Somebody had to say it in the MSM. And Joe Klein of TIME has done the honor.
Read the whole Klein piece here.
Over the weekend, she picked up on an article in The New York Times, which essentially says that Barack Obama and...
Michael E. McCullough | Posted October 7, 2008 | Politics
There's a really nice piece by Ben Carey in the New York Times today about the role of the revenge instinct in people's responses to the Wall Street bailout package. (The forgiveness instinct, and my new book, Beyond Revenge, get a bit of ink as well.)
I've pasted the...
Robert Schlesinger | Posted October 7, 2008 | Politics
John McCain is going on the attack. Again.
How many assaults has McCain launched against Barack Obama? There was He's a celebrity egomaniac (this coming from the gang that brought you: We can't solve the financial crisis without me!). There was He's inexperienced (if only Illinois was...
Robert L. Borosage | Posted October 7, 2008 | Politics
So much for the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. Clearly, once the bailout passed, investors took a good look at the real economy and went to the mattresses. We're headed into a great reckoning. And at the heart of that, as illustrated in the new Institute for America's Future...
Peter Scheer | Posted October 7, 2008 | Business
Economists and historians will be debating for years the causes of the financial crisis that, like a global array of dominoes, now threatens to take down the "real" economies of countries big and small, both "developed" and "emerging," in a massive flight from investment risk unlike anything experienced since 1929.
...Chris Durang | Posted October 7, 2008 | Media
October 7, 2008 - 10:25 a.m. or so
Both today and yesterday, MSNBC has been airing what appears to be full stump speeches from Sarah Palin.
As I write this, they have been playing her speech in Jacksonville, Fla for ten full minutes, and it's still going on. No comments...
The recent report that 8 million African-Americans are unregistered to vote brought gasps of disbelieve, cries of shame, and a lot of head shaking reproach. It also stirred a mild soul search among blacks about how and why the numbers are so appallingly high. The figure was...
John Bruhns | Posted October 7, 2008 | Politics
Both McCain's and Obama's Iraq policies are too ambiguous for the layperson to comprehend. It is clear that if you want to expedite the process of getting out of Iraq, Obama is your candidate. If you want to remain in Iraq indefinitely to acheive a so-called "victory" prior to...
Josh Nelson | Posted October 7, 2008 | Politics
During last week's Vice Presidential debate Sarah Palin got global warming backwards. The next day, her first order of business was meeting with Texas oil man Republican operative T. Boone Pickens.
Since no members of the media were present, the only information we have comes from Pickens...
Jon Greenberg | Posted October 7, 2008 | Chicago
Carlos Quentin was positively raking Monday afternoon. It was a sight to see.
All sinews and fast-twitch muscles, Quentin stood at home plate on this sunny October day, and bashed baseballs all over the outfield. The ball was flying off his bat, just as it did in this Summer of...
Saturday Night Live's sketch about the vice presidential debate starred Queen...
At a rally on Saturday in California,...
WASHINGTON — By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is "palling around...
The McCain campaign is all set to roll out...
About a year ago, I had a memorable chat with a high-ranking Republican operative. ...
The following are my comments from the stage at yesterday's Vote...
On "Meet the Press" Sunday morning, vice presidential debate moderator Gwen Ifill said Palin "more...
Katie Couric was out shopping in midtown with her daughters...
Actor and activist Alec Baldwin appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher" Friday night. At several points...
WASHINGTON — The now-bankrupt...
WASHINGTON — Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed...
Last week's post began an exploration into what style is today and how this relates to each of us. If we...
Two French scientists who discovered the AIDS virus and a German who defied convention...
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted October 7, 2008 | Politics