Meet Sheldon Adelson, who organized a Vegas fundraiser for McCain. Given that this guy compared Bush’s middle east peace conference at Annapolis to Munich–again with Munich!–and that he’s opposed to a two-state solution, and that he’s had a history of giving money to politicians who agree with his views on Israel…what are we looking at [...]
The press corps covering Barack Obama has insisted upon what is known as a “protective pool,” similar to the one that is always on duty with the President. A protective pool is a good and necessary thing to do, though in practice, being a pool reporter is not always the most productive way to spend [...]
So it’s my last day of vacation, and I can report that Texas is even hotter in the summer than I remembered. While I’ve been away, I’ve been indulging my need for a politics fix with what is of late one of my favorite websites. Today, baseball statistician Nate Silver entertainingly devises what he calls [...]
