• “In the summer of 1916, for example, a dramatic weeklong series of shark attacks along New Jersey beaches left four people dead…Letters poured into congressional offices demanding federal action; but what action would be effective in such circumstances? … When President Woodrow Wilson—a former governor of New Jersey with strong local ties—ran for reelection [...]
Paul asks: Since you, as a journalist, get every piece of campaign spam there is, you are in a position to tell us if Rick Davis is telling the truth and that the attacks from the blogosphere on Joe the Plumber are indeed coming from the Obama campaign or if instead that Rick Davis talking [...]
In the new dead-tree TIME, I have a story about how a sinking economy is lifting the Democrats’ prospects for a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.
Here’s a good thing that has come out of the insertion of a “regular guy” into the national political dialog: According to the New York Times, Mr. Wurzelbacher says that he is planning to buy a plumbing business that has profits of between $250,000 and $280,000 a year. While this income would put Mr. Wurzelbacher [...]
But Barack Obama and John McCain do. And they don’t just look funny. They talk funny. This is from the Al Smith charity dinner Thursday night. UPDATE: It’s also notable that later in the event, McCain said the following: “I don’t want it getting out of this room, but my opponent is an impressive fellow [...]
