Day two and the Democratic debate fallout continues. Turns out the lady who asked Obama the question about the Flag Pin, in a prerecorded tape made by ABC, had already told the New York Times that she could not support Barack Obama–because of his sometimes aversion to wearing flag pins. So, it wasn’t really a [...]

Former Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sam Nunn and former Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman David Boren. As with the endorsement of Lee Hamilton some weeks back, these guys bring some serious foreign policy and national defense cred.

Jay Newton-Small and I have a story in the next paper-product TIME, since digitized for the Interwebbing here, about the considerable disadvantage the McCain campaign has right now online. Republicans, who once were far ahead of Democrats in whizbang TV technology, let their party fall behind the nerd curve as Howard Dean and later John [...]

Sure, Vladimir Putin is an autocrat answering to a compliant press largely controlled by his own government. With this response, he is also the envy of every American politician ever confronted with accusations of sexual impropriety: “I have always reacted negatively to those who with their snotty noses and erotic fantasies prowl into others’ lives.” [...]

Are out, for 2006 and 2007. As expected, his income amounts to his Senate salary, some (relatively) modest book royalties, Social Security and his Navy Pension. He donates his book royalties to charity. His very wealthy wife, however, is another story all together. The new McCain tax info is here.

I woke up this morning and the blues were pouring down like rain…Well, not really–although I’ve always loved that lyric. Actually, I woke up this morning with a gut feeling that the Philadelphia debate may have been the last straw for the Democratic Party, that the superdelegates are about to rush to Barack Obama in [...]