Liberal Talk Radio

Great anecdote from Joe Klein:
Obama had a choice at that moment. He could thank Petraeus for the briefing and promise to take his views “under advisement.” Or he could tell Petraeus what he really thought, a potentially contentious course of action — especially with a general not used to being confronted. Obama chose to speak [...]

The Prof, some friends and I had a lively debate the other night about I-1000, the “Death With Dignity” (a.k.a. physician-assisted suicide, or PAS) initiative being considered in Washington State this fall.
I was torn about it: my libertarian and progressive instincts both told me to support it (individual rights), but I’m conservative enough [...]

More or less, anyway. Somewhere, his old buddy Ayn Rand is frowning disdainfully.

A month ago a tax calculator went around the internets (I talked about it here) showing how much better the typical family would do under an Obama administration.
A month later, the calculator has been absorbed into the Obama borg. Nice.

Will this get people paying attention to wiretap abuses at the NSA?
Faulk says he and others in his section of the NSA facility at Fort Gordon routinely shared salacious or tantalizing phone calls that had been intercepted, alerting office mates to certain time codes of “cuts” that were available on each operator’s computer.
“Hey, [...]

A couple of weeks ago, the Prof and I discussed the “Swedish option,” with respect to the bailouts. When Sweden faced a similar banking crisis over a decade ago, it nationalized its banks and saved its economy. The US plan was different. Instead of nationalizing the banks, we’d just buy up their [...]

From Stan Greenberg’s focus group of undecided Colorado voters, as quoted by Amy Sullivan in Time:
Even more dramatic was the shift in the voters’ personal reactions to the two candidates. Before the debate, McCain had a 48/46 favorability rating; that improved to 56/36 by the end. But that’s about where Obama started the evening—54/36. After [...]