Friday Talking Points [51] -- Some Positivity
While we're all waiting for someone to leak the Palin Troopergate Report (which is reminiscent of waiting for "Fitzmas" during the whole Scooter Libby...
While we're all waiting for someone to leak the Palin Troopergate Report (which is reminiscent of waiting for "Fitzmas" during the whole Scooter Libby...
Shayana Kadidal | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics
Finally, thanks to Brian Ross and surveillance expert Jim Bamford we have a report from the inside on what the NSA was eavesdropping on. And the facts are almost as bad as we expected.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media
McCain has joked that the media is "his base" of support. It was a funny line, but there is a truth at its core: the media has been hard on Obama but unbelievably light on McCain. And this has to stop. Now.
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
Unfortunately these questions remain largely unanswered, almost two months after the last debate.
Chris Weigant | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
As Robert Anton Wilson pointed out (or William S. Burroughs, if you prefer), hexagram 23 of the I Ching is "breaking apart." Anyone who subscribes to...
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics
Happy Leap Day! Because we are given an extra day this year, I would like to spend it in a good old fashioned Bush-bash. Maybe it's because everyone'...
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
Tomorrow night may be the last debate in the Democratic primary race. This will be the twentieth debate so far, which has to be some kind of record. ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics
It's been a busy week for Democrats, with a lot to cover. There has been good news and bad, but on the whole I'd have to judge the week a success for...
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics
I'm going to start off with a quick piece of advice for both Democratic campaigns (or perhaps for Howard Dean) -- spend the next few weeks taping ever...
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics
Time for another fun round of Democratic talking points for the weekend ahead! After a hiatus for the year-end awards, and then a special "all electi...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.02.2007 | Politics
Since this column has not been afraid to coin new terms, I submit for the blogosphere's approval the Bush Doublethink Corollary to Godwin's Law: "Stat...
Some videos you just have to see to...
It appears in this video that President Bush's approval is in a sorrier state...
"As Sarah Palin settles back into her job as the state's chief executive, a new...
Dear Senator Lieberman, Congratulations! You got away with it! So despite...
Today, Al Qaeda's number 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri,...
In an earlier post...
Katie Couric discussed her infamous interview with Sarah Palin Wednesday night on...
WASHINGTON -- What does an accomplished man of the world get for his 66th...
John McCain is returning Jackson Browne's August lawsuit complaining about McCain using his...
It's a fact of life: we grow older. But if you're President of the United States of America, it...
WASHINGTON — The $25 billion rescue plan for the auto industry, desperately sought...
President-elect Obama's plan to put a million electric vehicles on the road in 10 years...
Surgeons replaced the damaged windpipe of Claudia Castillo,...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics