• “Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s blogger/daughter, Meghan McCain, had lunch with ‘The Hills’ star Heidi Montag yesterday.” Also, God will someday punish me for making it possible for Montag to think McCain is a fan of the show. [LAT]
• “The city’s decision to deny protesters the ability to
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Nine-year-old Jacob Schroeder, a Scholastic Kids reporter, asked McCain today, “What qualities are you looking for in a vice presidential running mate?” McCain responded: “Someone exactly like you. Young, vigorous, talented.”
Fun fact: If the average age of the ticket was the determining factor for eligibility, and not each …
A tipster reports that “Larry Craig just complained that other countries ‘have us by the gas nozzle.'”
Said tipster notes it might not actually be a complaint.
The wrap party for the upcoming Oliver Stone flick got kinda Abu Ghraib-y:
Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright, who were arrested this past weekend at a Shreveport, La. bar, were pepper sprayed and tased by cops. And, we’re told, police went on a vulgar rant — and portions were caught on cell phone video.
The incident occurred during a
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I have to say, I think mutts are more American.
Ambinder gets co-author Adam Nagourney to push back against the push back Karen posted earlier:
This was a long and detailed poll that yielded a lot of interesting results. We could have chosen to focus on any number of themes; we decided to focus mainly on what we could learn from the poll about how blacks, whites and Hispanics view
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• Ce n’est pas un blog. [Correspondent]
• Another reason to figure out how to do a Google: “Using the gadget you can search not only the titles and descriptions of the videos, but also their spoken content. Additionally, since speech recognition tells us exactly when words are spoken in the video, you can jump right to the most
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Planned Parenthood’s PAC hits McCain with his own lack of words:
Reading coverage of this ad, I found some pundit explaining that McCain is uncomfortable talking about issues such as birth control because he’d rather talk about “big-boy issues” like war and peace. This is pretty much the argument you get from his own campaign: Okay, …
Yeah, I heard about what McCain said regarding same-sex couple adopting a child. In the interview, he even says it’d be better for the children to remain parentless rather than have two Mommies (or two Daddies). As the aunt (ish. Complicated family tree.) of two rather adorable girls who were adopted by their moms out of China, I had to …
In addition to Rush Limbaugh, I also listen to Laura Ingraham. She is not as skilled as Rush, or as smart; listening to her really is a kind of work. And sometimes it’s rewarding, like today; her guest was John McWhorter, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and sharp cultural critic who is also black. You can decide if the latter …
I’m skeptical that the legions of disappointed Hillary fans will do much damage to the party or Obama in the end. But they’re gonna have fun trying. Here‘s the latest taking-their-ball-and-going-home threat:
On Saturday, June 7, 2008, Hillary Clinton suspended her historic campaign for President. To her 18 million voters, it may have
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• “The ACLU contends those blanket powers to grab international communications of Americans without specific court orders violate the Fourth Amendment and would stymie journalists who often speak to confidential sources outside the country.” [Threat Level]
• “‘Where does he get his porn?’ conservative talk show host Michael
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In this week’s New Yorker, if you can make it past the cover, Rick Hertzberg articulates a line of thinking I’ve heard from (among others) my husband:
Obama, it turns out, is a politician. In this respect, he resembles the forty-three Presidents he hopes to succeed, from the Father of His Country to the wayward son, Alpha George to Omega
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