Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
So, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg wants Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat. Is she qualified? The New York Times takes a look at her resume. New York Daily News takes a look at her spirit. Is this the rebirth of the Kennedy dynasty? If…
Krugman
Princeton economist and New York Times columnist won the Nobel Prize in economics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said it selected Krugman, whose columns appear on Tuesdays in the Post-Dispatch, “for his analysis of trade patterns and location of…
Take your pick. Does the headline refer to the presidential campaign or the economy?
A Saturday New York Times story looked at the relationship (or lack thereof) between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers, the founder of the 60s radical group the Weather Underground.…
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin round-up:
Mitt Romney says let her speak. Yep. The same Romney thought to be on the VP short list.
Biden beware.
Conservative columnists are not getting in line. Or rather, they are getting out of line.
But when you knock her…
Scary: The Times Online (the Internet site of “The Times” of London) is reporting that we’re running out of Internet addresses. And that could be a problem. From the times:
The world is about to run out of the internet addresses…
Seriously, isn’t responding to a subpoena required? First Harriet Miers and others in the Bush administration refuse to testify under subpoena from Congress, which was investigating in the firing of U.S. attorneys. Now Todd Palin, first dude of Alaska, is…
Forbes magazine looked at cities all over the country to find the best places to buy a home. Houston, San Francisco, Atlanta and St. Louis all made the top 10.
Yes. St. Louis.
I love St. Louis. I don’t mind the summers,…
Sla
te’s got a funny column this week about Jonah Goldberg, a syndicated columnist we run on Mondays. Read “Karadzic’s Gift to Jonah Goldberg” here.
Goldberg claims in his book that liberalism and New Ageism are descended from fascism. (Honestly. That’s what…
Obama seeks support from Hillary Clinton’s donors, gets the cold shoulder (via TPM media).
And he takes heat from the netroots about his support of telecom immunity (via Huffington Post).
It doesn’t get much funnier: Karl Rove is spearheading an effort to label Obama…
The telecom immunity bill surfaces again. Sens. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., vow to filibuster. That’s a promise we’ve heard before. Read it here, via Huffington Post.
And she returns like royalty. Politico reports on HRC’s return to the Senate.
Meanwhile, Bill…
Hill and Barry to appear together again next week, the NY Daily News reports.
Katie Couric plays funny, via Poynter’s Romenesko.
DNC calls for investigation over McCain and public financing, from Huffington Post. (My advice: Get over it and talk about issues.…
At an event to honor her earlier this week, Katie Couric lambasted the media for its alleged sexism regarding Hillary Clinton. And last night, she used her “Notebook” segment to continue the theme. She didn’t name names, but she made reference to…
A hedge fund manager disappears in murky circumstances. Maybe suicide, maybe not.
One member of Obama’s vice president search committee has quit after a “special mortgage” he received from troubled bank Countrywide was made public.
Talk of the Nation today featured a discussion…
BradBlog, a voting rights blog by Missouri’s own Brad Friedman, has the uncut video of Jon Stewart of the “Daily Show” interviewing Douglas J. Feith, author of “War and Decision” and undersecretary of defense under Donald Rumsfeld. The interview ran…
Watching the Derby Saturday was heartbreaking. When the camera cut to Eight Belles on the ground inside the track, all the excitement from the race drained.
I’ve never been a fan of horse racing (or animal racing of any kind), but…
“May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.” Pierre de…
It’s 2:30 p.m. down here at 900 North Tucker. The Cardinals are up 3-0 in the top of the eighth. The predicted pouring has yet to begin. Perhaps Bill DeWitt struck a deal to keep the rain south of his…
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