And I think he gets it right: A newspaper cannot begin a story about the all-but-certain Republican presidential nominee with the suggestion of an extramarital affair with an attractive lobbyist 31 years his junior and expect readers to focus on anything other than what most of them did. And if a newspaper is going to [...]

I was among those who heard a valedictory note in Hillary Clinton’s final moment of Thursday night’s debate. But it’s amazing to see the conventional wisdom stampede that has followed it. Take today’s Washington Post, which writes: Some supporters said they had discussed how to raise with Clinton the subject of withdrawing from the race [...]

The Rio Grande Guardian reports that one of Hillary Clinton’s most prominent supporters in the Valley showed up at a rally this morning … for Barack Obama: State Rep. Aaron Peña, who, in print and on TV has been a leading outreach activist in the Valley for Clinton, shocked many Friday morning when he sat [...]

Sometimes it can be shocking to remember that politics actually involves real people. This was posted Wednesday night, just as the New York Times story broke, by Meghan McCain on her blog, McCainBlogette.com: Life is all about perspective. Having grown up in politics, I know it’s an industry that, for all intents and purposes, is [...]

There’s an odd disconnect about the situation in Iraq right now. On the one hand, you have the scrupulous military observer Anthony Cordesman–cited here by Charles Krauthammer–reporting significant progress on the ground, which is no doubt true despite the daily spray of gore. If you want to define the war as John McCain does–the fight [...]

With the world still sorting through the implications of the lady lobbyist sorta-scandal, John McCain got back on the trail today as if nothing had happened–a 30-minute town hall in Indianapolis, followed by about 30-minutes of questions from the audience, and nary a mention of the New York Times story. (Before he was introduced, someone [...]

A good night for both candidates…and a lovely final statement–now there’s a metaphor!–by Hillary Clinton. I did think Obama bested her in two important exchanges, though. The first was Obama’s alleged plagiarism, where his assertion that this was “silly season…and that discourages people” [from voting, participating etc] utterly trumped her canned “change you can xerox” [...]

• “But while Lessig wryly notes that the RIAA and MPAA ‘won’t be excited to have an opponent of extremist copyright legislation in Congress,’ he also stresses that a congressional run would not be some kind of crusading extension of his work on ‘free culture.’ For Lessig, the central policy question will be, ‘Who ultimately [...]