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Redefining ‘Conservative’

Dan Froomkin does a good job today of covering how Bush’s speech last night was rather odd, in many ways, coming from someone who is self-described as ‘conservative’. Some of…

Finally, a Plan

…the White House plan. The effort is being directed by Mr. Bush’s chief political adviser, Karl Rove, and his communications director, Dan Bartlett. I’m relieved. I’m glad that the Bush…

Kudlow on Demand and Supply for Oil

…energy: As Dan Yergin, president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, recently wrote in the Washington Post, rising energy prices today will cause energy supplies to explode tomorrow. I’m not so…

What Karl Rove Really Said

Dan Bartlett went on the morning talks shows to explain that Rove’s speech included this sentence: Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war; a…

We All Knew That…

…and ongoing twit Dan Okrent did at least manage to explain how David Brooks (and yes, Maureen Dowd, as well) stays employed: I also believe that columnists are entitled by…

The Guardian’s Experiment

…undecided voters in a semi-rural county in central Ohio. How has it gone? The Daily Telegraph (a right-of-center British newspaper) says not so well: British intervention in poll backfires Dan

The President on Outsourcing

…works. Dan Drezner argues: “Bush gives a decent response on TAA and education”. Brad DeLong scoffs at this idea that NCLB is a jobs program: “Not for anyone over 17,…

VP Debate Live Bloggin’

…late night yammerers will declare a BC04 victory. Of course, VP debates don’t really matter. Lloyd Bentson destroyed Dan Quayle, and we know how that worked out for Dukakis. Cheney…

Distributed Fact-Checking

…on blogs (to an extent yet to be determined) to do the fact-checking work for them. In fact, Dan Froomkin of the Washington Post has explicitly asked blogs to post…