I know you’re going to be shocked:
A Senate investigation has concluded that top Pentagon officials began assembling lists of harsh interrogation techniques in the summer of 2002 for use on detainees at Guantanamo Bay and that those officials later cited memos from field commanders to suggest that the proposals originated far down the
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Obama’s biggest push in the South will be in Georgia, as I write today, North Carolina and Virginia. It’s interesting because according to the Joint Center — a non-partisan group that tracks black voters — his best shots are the states where Kerry won more than a quarter of the white vote and therefore the base starts out already more …
The horse race numbers in today’s Washington Post-ABC News poll are far less interesting, it seems to me, than what they say about the real 2008 battleground. The poll suggests that the election will be fought over independent voters–which is a decided contrast from 2004, when Karl Rove had all but declared the swing voter an extinct …
In the latest issue of New York magazine, John Heilemann has an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at the closing days of the Clinton campaign, and makes this argument about what she accomplished with her presidential bid:
The rapidly congealing conventional wisdom is that the answer is worse than nothing: Her legacy has been
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Not that this comes as a surprise, but read his endorsement here if your interested. And Gore will appear with Obama tonight in Michigan for those of you looking for something to watch on cable tv tonight.
In a move bound to reignite speculation that Hillary might be offered the vice presidential slot, the Obama campaign announced that none other than Patti Solis Doyle, Clinton’s former campaign manager, would be “chief of staff to the vice presidential nominee.” A complete list of other senior positions they announced today is after …
McCain called Friday’s ruling “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.” Now, other people have probably had this same thought, but it’s worth articulating here: Really? One of the worst? I mean, I love this country and all but our Supreme Court has pulled some real boners over the years… I dunno, off of the top of my …
Everything you thought you knew about electoral math is wrong.
Actually, I have a vague memory of a similar strategy — one that counted at least in part on racking up electoral college votes in the West, rather than Ohio and Florida — being floated by a Kossack or the Kos himself. Someone bloggy. I’ll use the Google. Meanwhile, commenters?
As published today at TIME dot COM.
Excerpts from some of the tributes:
President Bush:
Those of us who knew and worked with Tim, his many friends, and the millions of Americans who loyally followed his career on the air will all miss him.
As the longest-serving host of the longest-running program in the history of television, he was an institution in both news and
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I had to have someone tell me the news twice. It is literally impossible for me, and I’m sure many others, to imagine Washington without him. My condolences to his family.
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Jay raises an interesting point. Where do these things start?
The time line in my story, does indeed suggest that the rumor about Michelle Obama was fanned by a pro-Clinton blogger. But it was out there before that, and had enough currency that one of her closest friends and her chief of staff felt it was significant enough to bring to …
As several bloggers have rightly noted, I erred yesterday on MSNBC when discussing Karen Tumulty’s piece about the Obama campaign’s efforts to combat rumors and smears. I said the rumor about Michelle Obama making a derogatory comment about whites was started by conservative bloggers. That was a mistake. As Tumulty wrote in her piece, …
