Washing the MSM’s...

John Nolte, Big Journalism Oops. My headline mistakenly reads “cracker” journalism.What I meant to write was ”crack” journalism – but in a completely sarcastic way.At the top of Politico’s front page today...

Obama/Romney Looking a ...

Ron Brownstein, NJ One striking aspect of the new ABC News/Washington Post poll released Monday is how closely the internal results of its head-to-head match-up between President Obama and Mitt Romney track Obama's performance against John McCain in 2008. Overall, the poll found...

Is Olbermann the Last H...

Rebecca Dana, Newsweek It was early November when tensions between Keith Olbermann and Al Gore escalated into a crisis at Current TV. There had been a short honeymoon after Gore, the channel’s co-owner, had handed the notoriously temperamental anchor a reported $10 million...

Toppling the Ivory Towe...

Richard Price, Tech Crunch Many academics are excited about the future of instant distribution of research. Right now the time lag between finishing a paper, and the relevant worldwide research community seeing it, is between 6 months and 2 years. This is because during that time, the...

Paul’s Flinty Wor...

David Halbfinger, New York Times His parents married two days before the crash of 1929. He was reared on nightmarish stories of currency that proved worthless, told by relatives whose patriarch had fled Germany in the dark of night when his debts were about to ruin him.Hard times, and...

Santorum’s Last S...

Katrina Trinko, National Review For Rick Santorum, Missouri’s primary is likely his last opportunity to regain momentum.Newt Gingrich isn’t on the ballot, thanks to his campaign’s decision not to file. (Missouri’s caucuses, held beginning in...

The GOP’s Economi...

Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast It was somewhere between hilarious and pathetic to watch Republicans respond to the positive jobs report last Friday. Some friends and I were counting the minutes until some Republican started casting aspersions on the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS),...

Obama’s Made-up J...

Joseph Curl, Washington Times When it comes to the unemployment rate, it’s nice to be president.Sure, it wasn’t so nice for President Obama in October 2009, when the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics declared the rate was 10 percent. But exactly a year from Election...

Obama Holds Edge Over R...

Dan Balz & Jon Cohen, Washington Post Boosted by improved public confidence in his economic stewardship, President Obama for the first time holds a clear edge over Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in a hypothetical general-election matchup, according to a new Washington...

Flaws Won’t Stop ...

Jonathan Tobin, Commentary Since Florida Republicans gave him a massive victory on Tuesday night, Mitt Romney has not had a good few days. His absurd statement about not caring about the very poor, from which, as Seth wrote earlier, he has already backtracked, was a gaffe of the first...