Sarah Palin is an able liar, as her acceptance speech showed. She may be a coward, too, at least when it comes to facing down the reporters she blasted from the comfort of that solitary podium in St. Paul.

The McCain campaign has admitted to a

Make An Effort is a campaign for The UnConvention (www.theunconvention.com) designed by Minneapolis advertising agency, Campbell Mithun, to encourage Twin Cities residents to find their own unconventional ways to welcome the visitors who arrived for the Republican National Convention this past week. The campaign does not ignore the...

YouTube + Yahoo! Answers + Twitter + Unremitting Blogging = Sarah Palin.

Last night, we saw the debut of a politician who was made possible by the last 5 years of the Internet. Those in the game call it Web 2.0, and it carries in its wake many variants of...

When I was a little girl, one still heard the inspiring slogan that America was a place so full of promise and equal opportunity that "Any boy can grow up to be president."

(The 21st century corollary, "Any flag lapel pin-sporting attractive outdoorsy conservative female with five children one of...

Last night, while Americans sat quietly expecting to watch a video 'tribute' to victims of the terrorist attacks  on September 11, 2001--John McCain took advantage...

The Evil-Doers and Haters video

No surprise, Palin gets between McCain and the cameras after Mac's speech.
Meanwhile, McCain's gesture describes whose...

John McCain's nomination speech was so flat, so disjointed, so utterly devoid of any vision or affirmative plan for the U.S. -- it's hard to say much about it, other than it sucked.

That's basically what CNN's Jeffrey Toobin was driving at when he panned it in historic proportions...

As I reported here weeks ago, the new (and fourth) Bob Woodward book on President Bush would be published a week after Labor Day, under strict secrecy with his Washington Post promised first dibs. Late today, however, Fox News said it had obtained an advance copy, and quickly spilled some...

If nothing else, and I suspect there may really be nothing else, Sarah Palin gives us a magnified view of weaknesses of the punditocracy, which we might begin to call the Palindrones.

Can't you feel the "what planet are they from?" dissonance in your bones as the Right Wing complains...

Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings. Check your inbox. It's a Google Alert! Taking us to infinity and beyond. (Perhaps I'm messing up my hero references.) Point being Google does what the 6 o'clock News and our daily papers never could....

Well, isn't Gov. Palin the gift that keeps on giving?

Just when the pack was sure that John McCain chose her to reach out to disaffected Democratic women and lure Hillary Clinton supporters to the GOP, Palin roared onto the national stage Wednesday with Barack Obama so squarely in her...

By giving a far right speech, Palin  - as well as the convention itself - has made the job of defining McCain a lot easier. The past two nights have vividly confirmed what progressives have been saying for the last nine months - John McCain is the same as...

within the first few minutes of palin's speech my phone started to light up with text messages. I could instantly tell that my liberal friends (and there are many) were nervous. palin the future president and next vice-president of the United States had something to say. the messages started with...

"Shame on you for writing that article! Shame on you!!!"

"I'm calling you because what you wrote is so politically slanderous. I'm shocked that a woman would do that. You are a disgrace to your gender and your country."

"Yeah, great story. You and your freak publisher. Just...

If you work at home and are distractable like me and you tend to listen to cable news at a low volume throughout the day, pausing only occasionally to scream WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT or OH FOR GOD'S SAKE GET HEATHER WILSON OFF MY TV or YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY...

It should come as no surprise that John McCain's VP nominee elicited rowdy applause from an otherwise comatose gathering of Republican delegates. The Republican Party, it seems, never tires of hearing the same talking points about the Democrats, and they never stop looking for newer and younger people to deliver...

Wednesday night's Republican convention was another page out of the GOP/Karl Rove playbook that has brought them victory for decades. Here's an excerpt:

1) Don't talk about your party's disastrous policies and the results: our failing economy, declining national security and domestic infrastructure. Instead, focus on the "toughness" and...

After a spokesman for the Obama campaign observed quite accurately that many American Jews consider Patrick Buchanan, the former right-wing Republican presidential candidate and aide to Presidents Nixon and Reagan, to be a Nazi sympathizer, Buchanan's friends on MSNBC's Morning Joe show, where he is a frequent guest, rallied to...

After a week of images of the Palin/McCain soap opera, the ante rose even higher Wednesday at...