McCain '07: I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a governor for a short period of time. The Truth-O-Meter follows the candidates' claims, backing up and debunking
Times obit for author David Foster Wallace, with particularly heartbreaking last paragraph. Wallace's remarkably honest Kenyon commencement speech. Various authors' reactions to Wallace's death. Response to Kakutani's position on Wallace over time. David Foster Wallace news, links, and more on The Howling Fantods!
Throughout her political career, [Palin] has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her, and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance. McCain has long rankled evangelical voters--Obama isn't having much luck converting them, either. Op: Palin makes thinking passé; saying her main qualification is that
Op: Even in a political culture accustomed to truth-stretching, McCain's skirting of facts has stood out this week. Military might will do little to help the next president maintain U.S. dominance--immigration is the only thing likely to invigorate the economy. The reviews of Palin'
Unlike in previous years, Sept. 11 becomes a day for reflection and service--and ceasefires. In interview, Gibson takes Palin video out of context, Palin reverses policy on global warming, confuses foreign policy facts. (excerpts here) Palin's favorite clothing brands revel in sales lift--except Patagonia, which refuses
She's the kind of broad who speaks on behalf of other broads but appears not to like them very much. On Palin's Bizarro-world brand of feminism. Every day, Everymoment Now tracks the number of articles that reference each candidate. Eerily absorbing: Graphing the candidates'
Archive: Terror attacks hit U.S. A third of Mexico and a quarter of Germany think the U.S. government was behind Sept. 11. Palin's touted pipeline is years from federal approval, at least a decade from completion--if never finished, it could cost Alaska up to $500
Intelligence forecast being prepared for the next president says the U.S. won't have much fun for a very long time. McCain and Obama in a row over lipstick remark; Huckabee says cut Obama some slack. On the Alaskan secessionist movement, of which Sarah Palin, says the group&
Gov. Paterson accuses the GOP of racial coding in its heckling of "community organizer." White women voters are deserting the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama because of the sudden emergence on the Republican ticket of Sarah Palin. Conservative talk host Reese Hopkins finds 70 cases of listeners'
Bob Woodward says top-secret U.S. "killing program" is responsible for Iraq's reduced violence. American missiles kill 23 in North Waziristan--including eight children--and miss targets, say Pakistani intelligence officials. After years of staying indoors to avoid violence, Iraqis now face another problem: obesity.
