... arrested on drug felony charges. Questions: 1. What drug? 2. Will Bristol Palin ever marry Levi Johnston? 3. Bristol's baby -- a boy -- is due tomorrow. Will Andrew Sullivan stop obsessing about whether Trig -- born Apr…
How interesting! A clever choice. It made me go back to my notes on the Saddleback Forum , the hour-long interviews that Obama and McCain gave to Rick Warren back in August. I liked Warren's style and thought Obama had a goo…
Jimmy Carl Black, RIP . ADDED: The album cover above is "We're Only in It for the Money," one of my favorite records, which is full of great songs including one that I think is just as appropriate for election eve …
"Because this is America . And the world has never needed her more." *** From a list of things I'm looking forward to, post-Election Day: Andrew Sullivan will stop writing creepy stuff like that.
I missed it, but I see Andrew Sullivan had it along with Huffpo , both without significant comment. Hot Air has it with the comment: "Fun and humanizing for most of us, fun and humiliating for media types already given to …
Video: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 . Excerpts. Commentary: 1. TBogg mocks Palin's speech. She does chatter through a lot of phrases that often don't hang together as sentences. And she gets words wrong, saying "lack&qu…
I'll highlight a few, but read the whole thing . 18) (John McCain has chosen a running mate) "whose primary qualification seems to be that she hasn't had an abortion." -- South Carolina Democratic chairwoman Car…
Andrew Sullivan raises doubts about whether Sarah Palin is really as pro-Life as she claims. The premise is that to have amniocentesis is to act in a way that reflects a belief that abortion is a possibility. I note the addition…
I called bullshit on HC's "apology" yesterday, but let's look at it more closely: Language Log has the in-depth analysis of the transcript: The apologizer's goal is to cite the narrowest possible range of o…
"A rising black politician in the Democratic party is a threat to them and their power over blacks. So they are doing what they can to crush him, and punish any Democrat who associates with him." That's from Andrew …
"Hillary, by contrast, is polarizing not because she wants to be, but because the right-wing attack machine made her that way. She's 'polarizing' only because a certain deranged slice of conservative nutjobs dete…
Andrew Sullivan has this elaborate generational analysis: One difference between Obama and Clinton does not seem to me to have been stressed enough. They are of different Democratic generations. Clinton is from the traumatized ge…
Andrew Sullivan says "it's going to be a long campaign" if we can't. I'm all for mixing personal remarks in with political analysis, and I agree with Sullivan's implication: The superficial look of thin…