By TED VAN DYK September 5, 2008; Page A13 The media- and blog-generated uproar about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's oldest daughter's teenage pregnancy is one of the most disgusting episodes in recent political memory. My...
Published: Friday, Sept. 5, 2008 12:19 a.m. MDT American politics has produced some surprises and some disappointments through the years. Democratic candidate George McGovern chose Thomas Eagleton as his running mate in...
The chief political pundit for The Seattle Times has announced that he'll be pitching for Paul Allen. David Postman is leaving after 14 years to work in media relations for Vulcan, Allen's voracious development company....
The "Shy Conservatives" may sound like an endearing breed, but in their quiet way they have frustrated liberal hopes and confounded pollsters on both sides of the Atlantic for some years. In the general election of 1992,...
Published: Sept. 3, 2008 at 9:13 PM ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Republicans blistered Barack Obama Wednesday, as speakers to GOP delegates in St. Paul, Minn., panned much of the Democratic presidential nominee's...
I read, in growing nausea, the unfolding of the original 'Trig Palin can't be Sarah's baby' story at Kos and the DU, hitting refresh a few times to see new comments as I just could not believe that these people were for...
I think it's a good idea, as we call it, to float names--in other words, put the name out publicly, leak it some way maybe, so it is known around the country that 'Joe Blow' is being considered. Now comes John McCain,...
Posted to the web 3 September 2008 "Primum vivere, deinde philosophare"-Let's eat first, then we can think. In Haiti, the government was over thrown because of food riots; people had been reduced to eating clay biscuits....
By Daniel Trotta Wed Sep 3, 10:19 AM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - The online prediction market Intrade sees a 14.6 percent chance Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be withdrawn as the Republican vice presidential nominee before the...
This week's top five This week's theme: Top 5 music-politics moments 5. 1978: Willie Nelson smokes pot on White House roof 1. 1970: Elvis asks Richard Nixon to be drug czar A couple weeks ago, country artist John Rich...