At Newsweek, Michael Isikoff has a small piece on ASK Public Strategies – a “consulting” firm that specializes in lobbying via “astroturfing” run by Barack Obama’s top strategist, David Axelrod. However, true to Newsweek’s general left-wing, pro-Obama stance, the piece buries any link between ASK’s corporate clients, like the utility company Exelon, and Obama near the very bottom of the inverted pyramid, noting in passing: One of them, Exelon, lobbied Obama

Insouciant: (Source) Mona on Karl TMI I think we ought to have happyfeet go here and file a report.

A glance at the front page of the Washington Post website before retiring last night had four stories pegged to the new Indiana Jones movie: an archaeologist complaining that the Indy movies are (omg!) not an accurate portrayal of the profession; the wacky backstory on antiquities from Afghanistan on display at the National Gallery of Art; a Reuters story from Friday about Russian Communists calling for the movie to be banned

At The Left-Wing Review of Books, left-wing journalist Michael Tomasky reviews three new books on presumed GOP presidential nominee John McCain, including one by admitted liar (and piss boy to George Soros) David Brock.  However, Tomasky’s favorite is by Matt Welch, an editorial-page editor at the Los Angeles Times and a former editor at Reason magazine: His book is the best of the three. The other two, though useful, would have

At the Politico, David Paul Kuhn reports on the strides the DNC has made microtargeting voters for GOTV efforts, which has become increasingly important to the parties as the more traditional forms of communication become less and less effective in campaigns. Yet you find that some in the GOP have a very blasé attitude about it: Some Republicans question whether the DNC could catch up in the span of just

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All the books that I have seen about the science and economics of global warming, including the two books under review, miss the main point. The main point is religious rather than scientific. There is a worldwide secular religion which we may call environmentalism, holding that we are stewards of the earth, that despoiling the planet with waste products of our luxurious living is a sin, and that the path

Most Effective Interrogator: Elderly Woman Who Reads Children’s Books to Detainees Saturday night trippy Love between the ugly is the most beautiful love of all The comment to this beautiful cover of Rundgren’s Love of the Common Man makes my heart ache This looks ripe for abuse I always get a thrill when this happens

The Associated Press reports: BAYAMON, Puerto Rico – Barack Obama told veterans Saturday that he can’t understand why Republican John McCain opposes legislation that would provide college scholarships to people who have served in the U.S. military. “Now, let me be clear: No one can dispute John McCain’s love for this country or his concern for veterans. But here’s what I don’t understand. I don’t understand why John McCain would

TIME magazine’s profile of Michelle Obama reminds us of a standard Barack Obama claims to observe: The latest strike came from the Tennessee Republican Party, which posted a YouTube ad ridiculing Michelle’s now famous “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country” remark. That prompted Barack Obama to throw down a gauntlet of his own. “I would never think of going after somebody’s