Interesting signs of a divide on how to respond to a new era, at least: A former White House official under Bush said some White House alumni wish Cheney would cool it. “We all sort of feel the same way:... Full story...
History professor and Alaskan David Noon corrects Palin for repeating the myth of "Seward's Folly" - the purchase of Alaska in 1867 by Secretary of State William Seward.
Ed Pilkington tells the story: George Patten, aged eight, [...] boasted at school about having met Abraham Lincoln, having been introduced to the then presidential candidate with his journalist father.
Clay Shirky tries to figure out how to save the bookstore as a social space.
Suzanne Sena, former anchor for the Fox News Channel, joins the Onion News Network. Her starring in this particular segment is apt - and very funny:
Jonah Lehrer describes a cognitive bias: [E]ven terrible expert advice can reliably tamp down activity in brain regions (like the anterior cingulate cortex) that are supposed to monitor mistakes and errors.
Andrew Sprung sums up the findings of a new poll: An Oxfam poll of 704 randomly selected Afghans reveals untold suffering-- 1 in 5 say they've been tortured, three quarters have been forced to leave their homes at some point.
Larison counters Kristol: Were [Palin] to side openly with McCain in a primary against Hayworth, whose views match up a lot more closely with her supporters’ views, she would be seen as imitating McCain’s worst habits.
John Sides throws a few handfuls of salt at that PPP poll. Sager tries to understand what the poll means: Both 2000 and 2004 were close enough to justify some amount of paranoia.
A new poll shows a 43 percent swing against him in ten months. Why? Among other things, he believes Obama is a legitimate president.
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