10:23 Biden is rolling again. Just hope people are still watching.
10:22 “[John McCain] is the man that we need to leave, lead…” –Sarah Palin
10:21 Joe Biden says maybe it’s his “excessive passion?” How self-flagellatory. (sp.?)
10:19 “Shining city on a hill”… attributed to Ronald Reagan by Gov. Palin. I [...]

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I want to make a plug, both shameless and, considering the (lamentable) title of my blog, counterintuitive. This weekend is the fall meeting of the Colloquium on the American Founding, and there are a few talks on the docket that would be of interest to folks of all political stripes. These talks are usually pretty [...]

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Maureen Dowd has an unusually readable column on the Op-Ed page of today’s New York Times. That’s possibly because, as she claims in the introductory paragraph, she didn’t write it. The conversation she imagines between Barack Obama and (fictional, sadly) President Josiah Bartlet of Aaron Sorkin’s lamentably term-limited NBC drama The West Wing contains some [...]

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Sarah Palin has finally surfaced, in an ABC interview with Charlie Gibson.

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William Saletan in Slate.
What do we think?

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Memo to Harry Reid/Harry Reid’s spokesman: please don’t do that again.

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This is me. This is me trying to resist mentioning Sarah Palin.
See how long that lasted?
But I want to talk about Palin in the context in which she appears to have been picked: as a fresh, young face in the Republican party; a candidate of change, if you’re into that sort of thing. More generally, [...]

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Well, I have to admit that it’s a little funny how much coverage an essentially meaningless primary is getting tonight. Sure, Obama is losing really, really badly in West Virginia (like, totally, really badly), but it seemed all week as though all the media outlets had agreed that WV and on were just show contests. [...]

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Meredith, apparently Sergio Vieira de Mello’s death caused the President to give up golf. Nice to know he cares.

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A couple of things I learned from that last post:
1) Tagging “HuckaBurgers” four times will only yield you a count of one in the tag cloud.
2) The full excecution of this revolution in Tag Cloud Theory (I call it this in the hope that one day, I will be able to earn a PhD in [...]

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