The Washington Post has a column from German journo Christoph von Marschall noting that Barack Obama’s campaign has refused multiple requests from international reporters to travel with the candidate on his current international junket: Perhaps Obama considers members of the foreign media a risk rather than an opportunity. His campaign learned the hard way how comments to foreigners can resonate at home — recall adviser Austan Goolsbee’s hints to a

In his latest posting, Glenn Greenwald (a/k/a “Rick Ellensburg,” “Thomas Ellers,” “Ellison,” “Wilson” and “Ryan”) claims that “certain views that deviate from the elite consensus are banished from sight — simply prohibited — even when those views are held by the vast majority of citizens.” His primary example is a recent poll by the University of Maryland’s Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), which shows that 71% of Americans say

Yesterday, the Television Critics Association named AMC’s Mad Men – a period piece about the world of advertising set in New York in the early 1960s — the program of the year, the outstanding new program and the year’s best drama.  It received 16 Emmy nominations last week.  The show and lead actor Jon Hamm both won Golden Globes.  It was the recent subject of an in-depth piece in The New York Times

Senior Democrats are done playing nice.  Former DNC Chairman Don Fowler and DNC Secretary Alice Germond are expressing — wait for it — “fatigue and irritation” at those Hillary Clinton supporters withholding full support from Barack Obama and demanding that they get behind him “without conditions or demands.” Thus, they have resorted to the proggressive weapon of choice — the sharply-worded e-mail: I must confess a bit of fatigue and

Taking Aidan to Camp Howe today, 3 1/2 hours each way, with 2 hours of dithering while there, so I won’t be posting anything till this evening. Hope your Sunday’s a bit less regimented. Ta! Karl’s got some excellent stuff in the pipeline, and you can muse over change we can alter to/hope we can hope for in the short meanwhile, in furtherance of our national continuation. It could be