Appleyard considers how blogging highlights self-contradiction: I certainly contradict myself and blogging repeatedly draws this to my attention. Being moody and impressionable, self-contradiction comes naturally and, as usual, I feel it is important to defend this character flaw as a... Full story...
How to obstruct justice: In a move endorsed by the McCain campaign Friday, John Coghill, the GOP chairman of the state House Rules Committee, wrote a letter seeking a meeting of Alaska's bipartisan Legislative Council in order to remove the.
Who is McCain trying to kid? Here's Palin's record as Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, from the vetting document (PDF) done by the Democrats in 2006, posted by Mudflats, the indispensable Alaskan blog.
This is incredible, totally incredible. A vice presidential candidate isn't going to be available to the press for two weeks? Two weeks? In September.
The last bit of Christopher Caldwell's article on 1998 article on the limits of the GOP: The most profound clash between the South and everyone else, of course, is a cultural one.
Larison on the dregs of Bushism: McCain provides the basic policy trajectory of a third Bush term, and Palin provides the biography of a folksy pro-life ”reformer with results” governor of a large, oil-rich reliably Republican state in the West–it.
A bit from an interview by Harry Collins author of Rethinking Expertise: I would say that the danger to democracy that my own discipline—social studies of science—is not doing enough to combat is the collapse of the idea of expertise.
Bill Kristol on Sarah Palin. All he writes about in this piece of propaganda is electoral strategy and the people he hates in the media.
... and politics is religion. With Sarah Palin, America has taken one very large leap toward a completely theocratic politics.
The North Carolina Senate race turns mean, and weird.
Frum again: George W. Bush had very slight executive experience before becoming president. His views were not well known.
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