Joe Biden's Tears Remembered
Weeks after Joe Biden's election to congress, his wife and daughter would perish and I would write a note of condolence. Though the letter is long gone, his response back to me has been kept for 36 years.
Weeks after Joe Biden's election to congress, his wife and daughter would perish and I would write a note of condolence. Though the letter is long gone, his response back to me has been kept for 36 years.
Huffington Post | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
FULL DEBATE COVERAGE, ANALYSIS Watch the town-hall presidential debate live with CNN's player. loadCNNLiveModule("myCNNLiveModule",300); -OR- Wa...
Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker") | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
During last week's VP debate, Sarah Palin talked big with claims of her administration's leadership role in an attempt to divest Alaska holdings from Darfur. Sound too good to be true? Guess why.
Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
Clean coal is a lie. The catch-all term is used by politicians and coal advocates alike to lull the American public into complacency.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics
On "Meet the Press" Sunday morning, vice presidential debate moderator Gwen Ifill said Palin "more than ignored" some of her questions -- she "blew me...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.04.2008 | Media
Tina Fey continued her dominance as late-night's favorite character in yet another killer portrayal of Sarah Palin on this evening's "Saturday Night L...
Jillian York | Posted 11.04.2008 | Home
During the run up to the vice presidential debate, there was much media and blogosphere speculation as how Governor Sarah Palin might handle the debat...
Corinne Calesso | Posted 11.04.2008 | Home
NEW YORK, NY: Houndstooth Pub is one of those bar-restaurants on 8th Avenue near Penn Station with red walls, black woodwork. Big tv screens replace ...
Peter Mehlman | Posted 11.04.2008 | Politics
What's the point of television sports criticism? It's not like a Broadway Musical where a bad review may keep you from seeing it. The game is over.
Darryle Pollack | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
Based on the debate, what would a 5th grader think about what they are learning in school? They might believe that what we tell them is true: anyone in America can grow up to be president.
Carl Bernstein | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
Palin appeared to lack any semblance of the requisite depth, knowledge, or sense of history we should expect in a president or vice president. As a Republican former White House chief of staff said to me, "Palin is evidence of desperation; she is an embarrassment."
Stephen Zunes | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
There was no heavily-armed al-Qaeda or Shia extremists in Iraq until the Bush administration decided to invade that country and overthrow Saddam Hussein, who had prevented such groups from emerging.
Huffington Post | Posted 11.03.2008 | Media
Gwen Ifill appeared on "Oprah" Friday to debrief following Thursday night's Vice Presidential debate, which she moderated. Oprah asked Ifill about th...
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
Palin is an example of what opponents of Affirmative Action would call someone who has "low level accountability" in her new position.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.03.2008 | Media
Update: The final numbers are in: 69.9 million viewers watched the Vice Presidential debate, making it the most watched debate since 1992 and the most...
Elon James White | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
With this episode, Comedian Elon James White talks about the vice presidential debate and interviews watchers of the showdown at Drinking Liberally debate party.
James P. Rubin | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
With our nation facing two hot wars abroad and an economic melt-down at home, substance matters. And when it came to substance, Senator Biden had a good night indeed.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
John McCain gets guttural while touting his running mate's performance in the vice presidential debate. Watch: UPDATE: Here's a remixed version cou...
Bill Katovsky | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
Palin is to "Wheel of Fortune" what Biden is to "Jeopardy." Around and around, her Hamster-wheel arguments travel, before slowly clicking into a predictable slot. Ad infinitum. Ad nauseum.
Joe Peyronnin | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
It is now pretty clear that the vice presidential candidates will not be a deciding factor in this election, even though they each exceeded their low expectations for the debate.
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 11.03.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — Who's running for president, anyway? More than 70 million people watched Thursday's vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and S...
Pollster.com | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
CNN and CBS, the two networks that released surveys immediately after the presidential debate last week, have done the same for the Vice Presidential ...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.03.2008 | Media
It's not just conservatives like Bill Kristol, Peggy Noonan and David Brooks who have lowered the bar so far that even a grasshopper could not limbo under it.
Michael Showalter | Posted 11.03.2008 | Entertainment
If last nights debate was a production of Macbeth the critics would have called it bad casting. "Why would anyone cast Heidi Montag in the role of Lady Macbeth?" They'd say.
Steven Petrow | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living