…for the Samsphere conference. Or don’t. It’s a free market political activism thing, after all, so it’s not like it needs your cruddy charity. Samsphere will not play the victim card! — Having said that, if you’re in the Denver area and have the inclination, drop by the Adam’s Mark Hotel; I’ll be speaking on the 1:00 panel. What I’ll be speaking about is anyone’s guess at this point —

OpenLeft’s Chris Bowers (an Obama backer) argues that — after all of the intraparty sound and fury of the past few months — the Michigan delegation will be seated at the convention with a pledged delegate breakdown of Clinton 73 and Obama 55, while Florida will be seated with a pledged delegate breakdown of Clinton 105, Obama 67, and Edwards 13.   After many of his readers’ heads exploded, Bowers posted a follow-up, noting

The Huffington Post carries a piece from Celeste Fremon about what Hillary Clinton says in secret: At a small closed-door fundraiser after Super Tuesday, Sen. Hillary Clinton blamed what she called the “activist base” of the Democratic Party — and MoveOn.org in particular — for many of her electoral defeats, saying activists had “flooded” state caucuses and “intimidated” her supporters, according to an audio recording of the event obtained by The

Okay, who kicked the ant hill? Gore Boosting McCain (Stoller) Obama Clueless (Krugman) Clinton Duplicitous (Fremon) ABC Overlooking Big Story: Their Debate Coverage (Tyndall) Candidates’ Horoscopes Bonus absurdity! Greenwald: Beltway Pundits Disingenuously Claim to Speak for Joe American, Drudge (i.e., The Anti-Greenwald) Is Emperor of American Media Gobsmackingly typical: Greenwald cites a Philadelphia Daily News poll from their website, in which 85% thought the debate was bad or horrible due

Regular PW visitors know that one of my recurring themes is that laypeople often interpret public opinion polls far too literally, with an under-appreciation of how much art there is mixed with the science involved in polling.  Indeed, I have noted that election polling, where there are often multiple polls with different results, makes for excellent case studies in how differences in polling methods can affect the results.  The following example is even more

I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but my will has been broken. I’ve realised that covering Mrs Clinton’s campaign without explicitly stating that it has turned into a win-at-all-costs operation fueled by phony outrage, hypocritical proclamations and absurd notions of who is electable and who is not is an exercise in deliberate deception, and I can’t do that. Perhaps I am weaker than my colleagues, but a certain fatigue

A McClatchy story about a study of the Iraq conflict by former senior Pentagon official Joseph Collins is blasted by Collins at the Small Wars Journal blog: The Miami Herald story (“Pentagon Study: War is a ‘Debacle’ “) distorts the nature of and intent of my personal research project. It was not an NDU study, nor was it a Pentagon study. Indeed, the implication of the Herald story was that this

At AoSHQ, Gabriel Malor takes issue with Eric at Classical Values — as well as a number of AoSHQ commenters — who have reacted to the news about the week-long raid by Texas authorities of a Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints polygamist compound by wondering whether Muslims and renegade Mormons receive the same treatment on TV: Yes, there’s moral relativism going on here, but it’s not coming

New information regarding this year’s trek at the website. If you’ve got the scratch, think of kicking a little over there, or plugging it in your space.

Vladimir: “Take that, Sarko!” “I have always had a negative opinion of those who, with their snotty noses and their erotic fantasies, meddle in other people’s lives,” he said. Oh, yeah, Puto?  Well, Jeff could beat you up.  And it’s not as though you’re not known for meddling in people’s lives. Record number of Americans have (their) heads up (their) asses.