Sarah Palin's Inbox Reveals Possible Troopergate Smoking Guns
Why the secrecy? Why try so hard to cover up your e-mail trail? What exactly is Gov. Palin trying to hide?
Why the secrecy? Why try so hard to cover up your e-mail trail? What exactly is Gov. Palin trying to hide?
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics
The national trend for Obama may have turned around in his favor in just the last couple of days. So even though things look grim here, Obama is already starting to bounce back.
Erik Ose | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics
A strange hacking incident earlier today tied up another loose end for Gov. Sarah Palin. Overnight, one of Palin's Yahoo e-mail accounts was compromi...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics
Surprise! It's our first anniversary column! But before we get to that, I have to pass on this information, in the hopes nobody will get stung by a v...
Erik Ose | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics
Funding is coming from a New York-based group called the Clarion Fund, a supposed 501 c(3) non-profit that this week featured an article supporting John McCain on its website.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics
It's time to fight fire with fire -- point out McCain's most embarassing votes, and paint him as an extremist or a party hack while doing so. Also paint him as anti-middle-class.
Erik Ose | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
How can progressives channel our outrage over the prospect of an unqualified, dangerously far-right wing pitbull with lipstick like Sarah Palin a heartbeat away from the presidency?
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics
Because the clock is running out on Bush and because his domestic popularity continues to fall, Maliki is using the international media to boost his own popularity with the voters in Iraq.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics
Sarah Palin has already singlehandedly introduced several terms into our political lexicon. "Hockey mom" is probably the most recognizable of these. ...
Erik Ose | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics
I got a fascinating e-mail from a Wasilla, Alaska resident who was witness to Sarah Palin's tenure as mayor. Except for a New York Times article this...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics
"Oh, I just think I'm gonna barf...."-- Marge Gunderson (Francis McDormand), from Fargo I open today with that Fargo quote for many reasons. T...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
Democrats should stay away from the baby stories. They must resist the urge to comment at all on it. Let the media do the muckraking.
Erik Ose | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics
In a breathtakingly puzzling move, John McCain showed terrible judgment by selecting first term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate. ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics
I know that just about the entire blogosphere is talking about John McCain's pick of Sarah Palin (who?) for his running mate, but I, for one, refuse t...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics
Tonight, Barack Obama encapsulated, embodied, and articulated the mood of millions of Americans who clearly see that the last eight years have been a betrayal of America.
Greg Saunders | Posted 09.28.2008 | Home
I don't know if the John McCain we've been seeing lately is the real McCain or "Candidate McCain," but either way, John McCain is turning out to be a real jerk.
Erik Ose | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics
Biden's acceptance speech proved what the citizens of Delaware have known for a long time: Biden is a regular Joe with all-American family values who also happens to be a Senator.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
Hillary made the case she needed to make to her supporters who were still sitting on the fence, and she did it perfectly, in a speech for the ages.
Erik Ose | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
These contests will help determine whether the party can hold off Republicans' attempts to seize back control of Congress, or add seats to the Democratic majority they gained in 2006.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
Don't buy into the media narrative that this is some sort of "divided party" -- because today's Democrats aren't. All true Democrats are pulling hard to defeat the legacy of George W. Bush.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics
John McCain said something ridiculous to a reporter yesterday. I hasten to point out that the previous sentence should have been a major media headlin...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.20.2008 | Politics
Obama has slipped below the magic 270 number for the first time since he became the Democratic presumptive nominee, and McCain has just about caught up with him.
Erik Ose | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
If the left is ever going to get serious about winning elections, we need to stop insisting on 100% ideological purity from our candidates. News flash: politics is about assembling winning coalitions.
Deanna Lee | Posted 09.18.2008 | Media
As an ABC-- American-Born-Chinese -- I had to settle for a less personal sort of honor and pride in "returning" to my family's homeland.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics
I don't usually comment on sports, so take anything I say with a grain of salt. I'm no professional sports guy, nor do I play one on the web. But I h...
Erik Ose | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics