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Sarah Palin’s Children Sarah Palin on her daughter’s pregnancy: “”We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us. Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. We’re […]

Gustav Hurricane Gustav is projected to make landfall tomorrow morning. Our thoughts are with the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. There’s good information on the weather at Jeff Masters’ blog and Weather Nerd; and on New Orleans at NOLA.com’s Hurricane blog and Best of New Orleans. The latter reports that things are […]

Borderline This is amazing: “On Saturday, a Democrat tasked with opposition research contacted the Huffington Post with this piece of information: as of this weekend, the McCain campaign had not gone through old newspaper articles from the Valley Frontiersman, Palin’s hometown newspaper. How does he know? The paper’s (massive) archives are not online. And when […]

Executive Experience On the McCain Report, Michael Goldfarb writes that Sarah Palin “has more executive experience than Barack Obama and Joe Biden put together”, a point that, by some strange coincidence, has popped up all over the conservative blogs. I think that the idea that Palin has an advantage over Obama in this area is […]

Now that I’m back from the convention, and have transferred all my backed up stuff onto my new computer (sigh), I’ve finally had a chance to sit down and consider McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate. I was in an airplane during her speech yesterday, but I saw her speak with McCain […]

Convention by hilzoy Sorry to have been absent: I’ve been having internet problems. I did manage to catch a little CNN coverage after I got in last night, and it was absolutely surreal: the convention they are covering bears no relation whatsoever to the one I had been walking around observing all yesterday. I’ve been […]

Never Say Never… Politico: “But Biden watchers also know that there is much to like and admire about the man. Biden is a fighter who is joining a campaign some Democrats believe should scrap a little more. He is a serious adult on the serious, adult issues of the day. And no one will liken […]

Gaining Ground By Standing Still Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office released new long-term Social Security projections (pdf): “CBO projects that outlays will first exceed revenues in 2019 and that the Social Security trust funds will be exhausted in 2049. If the law remains unchanged, the Social Security Administration (SSA) will then no longer have the […]

McCain Flip-Flops On Women’s Lives From ABC News: “ABC News’ Teddy Davis and Rigel Anderson Report: John McCain’s campaign signaled on Wednesday that the Arizona senator is backing away from his previously stated goal of changing the GOP’s platform on abortion. (…) McCain’s plan to take a hands-off approach with the abortion platform stands in […]

In my ideal world, the fact that John McCain cannot remember how many houses he has would not be a very big deal. It does make it clear just how wealthy he and his wife are, and it raises the question how well he understands life outside the cocoon of privilege. But in my ideal […]