A reader writes (yes, really): Jeff, I’m a longtime reader of your blog and I’m delurking for a second to see if you’ve seen this article that says conservative blog readership increased in 2007 while liberal blog readership decreased… Looking at those numbers (even before I picked up the fwd’ed e-mail), I noted that the numbers for the Lefty blogs are less uniform in their decline.  However, I also note

Philip Klein, writing at the American Spectator: EDWARDS’S PUGILISTIC populism (which John Tabin captured brilliantly last week) is an absurd spectacle to witness in person. I’ve never heard so much macho talk coming from an adult since I used to watch the WWF as a kid. Klein goes on to note that rhetoric “is especially silly coming from a man who wants to reengage with Iran and North Korea.”  Klein could have

An article like Adam Nagourney’s “What if Iowa Settles Nothing for Democrats?” is patently silly on its face, though perhaps a marker of the shallowness of The New York Times.  At RealClearPolitics, Jay Cost lays out the data showing that Iowa not only settles nothing, but is rarely influential on New Hampshire, let alone the rest of a presidential campaign. Yet an article like Roger Simon’s “Should Hillary Clinton have skipped Iowa?”

The story was broken by crack reporter Ryan Seacrest on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.” At presstime, Hanna Montana was unavailable for comment.

Via Memeorandum, I note that after Sen. Hillary Clinton finally got called on her ignorance about the upcoming election in Pakistan by Sen. Joe Biden (because the media could not be bothered), she unleashed yip-dog Howard Wolfson on — among others — ABCNews: “Well, his party is on the ballot,” said communications director Howard Wolfson, in an interview at Clinton headquarters in Des Moines, Tuesday, suggesting that the senator knew

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post on the tendency of people to overrate polling for the Iowa caucuses and to underrate the importance of organization, I note (via Memeorandum) that both Sen. Hillary Clinton and John Edwards are taking issue with the latest Des Moines Register poll, which had Obama seven percent ahead of Clinton, while polls by CNN and Zogby both show Clinton clinging to a statistically insignificant lead. This sort of hubbub from the

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) – A drug that could do for women what Viagra has done for men is being tested at the University of Virginia. The drug is a testosterone-laden ointment called LibiGel and it’s intended to boost the libido of women who have lost interest in sex. It will be prescribed at UVa in coming months to women who are suffering from hypoactive sexual desire disorder. A testosterone-laden ointment,

Someone at Free Republic attended the hearing in this matter.  Sgt. McNulty appeared, but Grodner was a no-show, and the judge issued a bench warrant.  Apparently, at some point after the hearing was concluded, either Grodner or a representative arrived and asked for a continuance, which was granted.  Ya think one of us could have showed up late after a bench warrant had been issued and been granted a continuance?

Memeorandum and PowerLine alert us that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton doesn’t know that the upcoming elections in Pakistan are for individual seats in the parliament, and that Bhutto, Nawaz and Musharraf are not on the ballot. No doubt that Clintonoids will point out then-Gov. Bush’s inability to even name Gen. Musharraf when was running for president in 1999.  Of course, intervening events should have Pakistan more on a candidate’s radar now than

As someone who went to college in Iowa and (as PW regulars know) someone who likes to analyze polls, I note that John Fund is largely correct in pointing out the flaws of the Iowa caucuses and the reasons why polls are of little use in predicting their outcome. The main quibble I would have with Fund’s piece is that — in an apparent hurry to conclude — he glosses over the