Month: September 2008

I’ve long felt that this election has the potential to tip from the type of toss-up contests we’ve become accustomed to into a blowout. We’re not yet seeing evidence of that in the presidential race, but the...

I admit it, the past week has left me speechless. As I sat and read the news about how the last of the investment banks shuffled off into extinction (kinda; they’re just becoming regular old banks now), it did feel like I...

Here’s a challenge for you. Can you, in a brief paragraph, summarize what the stakes are in this presidential election so that an undecided voter can have some clarity on their choice? I find the enterprise difficult for...

Hey, BooTribbers! I’m honored to be speaking at Duquesne University’s upcoming symposium “Making Sense of the Sixties,” about the assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King....

(Crossposted from My Left Wing.) All of this off of my favorite enemy newsline, the magnificently loony Drudge Report. (10:45 AM EST, 9/23/08) This creep is a good example of what is driving our political so-called...