Uncategorized
-
Why is Duke linking the Iraq war to 9/11?
Duke University (where I’m a graduate student) is holding a series of events commemorating the fifth anniversary of 9/11 that includes two movies about the war in Iraq: The following events, which are all free and open to the public, will be held at Duke University to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11
-
Revenue is good
As you may have noticed, I added some revenue-raising features to the site over the weekend in an effort to offset my hosting and service costs. There’s now a tipjar for donations as well as ads from Google and Kanoodle. All contributions and clickthroughs are appreciated!
-
Tim Rutten on appeasement rhetoric
I want to note that Los Angeles Times columnist Tim Rutten also wrote a long column on appeasement rhetoric. It’s worth reading, although Rutten reverses the sequence of speeches (Cheney at VFW, Rumsfeld at the American Legion, Bush at the American Legion) by quoting Cheney and Bush and then stating that they “set the board
-
Horse’s Mouth posts for 9/6
Here are my posts on The Horse’s Mouth today: –MRC: Accuracy is relative — the conservative watchdog plays off the inaccuracies of “The Path to 9/11” by suggesting that they are less than “Fahrenheit 9/11”; –Bogus tax cut statistics again — the Wall Street Journal exaggerates the benefits of the Bush tax cuts.
-
Horse’s Mouth posts for 9/5
Here are my posts on The Horse’s Mouth: –The Bush playbook keeps working — the parallels between a 2001 controversy over a statement by John Ashcroft and the recent controversy over Donald Rumsfeld’s speech to the American Legion; –The launch of Pollster.com — a new site should help to raise the quality of polling information
-
Horse’s Mouth post for 9/3
Here’s yesterday’s post at The Horse’s Mouth: –The Post crumples again — for the second time in a week, DC’s paper of record disregards its own reporting and reprints administration spin.
-
Meeting the Peter Feaver challenge
Peter Feaver, a faculty member in political science at Duke (my department) and a current National Security Council staffer, issued a challenge at the American Political Science Association meeting on Friday, which Steve Clemons summarizes: Peter Feaver basically took exception to those who had suggested that members of the Bush administration had been out frequently
-
Which candidate is most electable in 2008?
The Tradesports futures market offers four contracts for the 2008 election — one for the Democratic nominee, one for the GOP nominee, one for the candidate who wins the presidential election, and one for the party that wins. Using these contracts, we can determine who the markets think are the most electable candidates. The markets
-
Hillary favorability: Static since 2000
Charles Franklin, the Wisconsin political scientist who blogs at Political Arithmetik, has put together an excellent graphic showing the long-term trend in Hillary’s favorable/unfavorable ratings: Franklin comes to the same conclusion I reached a year ago — despite all the hype about how she’s become less polarizing, Hillary’s favorability ratings haven’t really changed since 2000.
-
Washington Post Radio appearance
If you’re an early riser in the DC area, you can catch me on Washington Post Radio (1500 AM and 107.7 FM) at 7:10 AM tomorrow morning talking about my Time.com column on appeasement rhetoric.