Everyone Is Sounding Like a Beltway Insider”> Lee Gomes argues that the Internet has turned garden variety political junkies into virtual Beltway insiders.
While all good reporters have their own sources, they also share the same daily reading list. Most start with the big national papers, though you can skip those and head right for a site like Mr. Klein’s “the Note” at ABCNews.com and “First Read,” via MSNBC. NationalJournal.com is an obligatory stop by news junkies, and newsflashes are available at CNN’s Political Ticker. RealClearPolitics.com shows a list of what its editors consider to be the leading stories. You can also link there to the latest polls, or flip to similar information at pollster.com. Another aggregator of political news, memeorandum.com, uses a Google-style algorithm to determine the big political story of the hour.
There’s a lot to this. Indeed, there’s so many valuable sources these days that e...
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12 Year Old Taliban Boy Beheads Man on VideoFrom: politics.boogietrain.nl
Post Date: 2008-02-16 05:58:33
A few years back, the horrific videos of Islamic terrorists sawing off the heads of kidnapped hostages on video had the Internet abuzz. Eventually, though, the tactic lost its shock value and it seemed to backfire, causing disgust among the Muslim populations who had otherwise been sympathetic to the Islamist cause.
Indeed, there were so many that I’d forgotten the names of most of the victims, even those about whom I’d posted at the time. Nick Berg . Kim Sun-il . Keith Mau...
more Obama May Accept Public Financing LimitsFrom: politics.boogietrain.nl
Post Date: 2008-02-16 05:42:07
John McCain is trying to publicly shame Barack Obama into accepting federal fundraising limits in the fall campaign — and Obama is indicating that he might .
Hammering Senator Barack Obama for a fourth straight day, Senator John McCain said here on Friday that he expects Senator Obama to abide by his pledge use public financing for his general election if Mr. McCain does so as well. “It was very clear to me that Senator Obama had agreed to having public financing of the general...
more Bill Clinton Says Obama Not Part of 1990sFrom: politics.boogietrain.nl
Post Date: 2008-02-16 05:06:12
Bill Clinton is attacking a strawman again.
ABC News’ Sarah Amos reports that former President Bill Clinton — despite myriad promises he would stop assailing his wife’s opponent given how it has backfired on her — upped his harsh attacks today in Tyler, Texas.
“There are two competing moods in America today,” Clinton said. “People who want something fresh and new — and they find it inspiring that we might elect a president who literally ...
more 25 Million VisitsFrom: politics.boogietrain.nl
Post Date: 2008-02-16 04:38:28
OTB hit the 25 million unique visitor mark as measured by Sitemeter sometime shortly after midnight. I installed the counter on February 4, 2003 (five days into OTB’s run) so it took a little over five years to reach that total.
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