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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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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