Don’t know what Tumblr is? Ask your kids. For everybody else, follow Obama’s Tumblr here. They’re using it as a way to tell a collaborative story about the campaign. Anybody can submit stories/photos/etc and a few will get picked for publication. So while you probably won’t get any hard hitting news on this channel, you’ll [...]

Hi. Remember me? Probably not, but that’s okay. It’s been nearly 18 months since my last contribution here at The Donk. For that, I apologize to you — the reader — and even moreso to our benevolent host, Mister Gardner. Since my last post, I have gone from being a stay-at-home-dad/pajama-clad-political-blogger to being amongst the [...]

As Kathy Kattenburg of Moderate Voice said earlier, this transcends politics. Here’s the info… She is a University of Washington undergrad and she has been missing since Saturday afternoon, when she left the Rainier Beach neighborhood headed to the UW Seattle campus. Her parents have been trying to reach her all weekend; she apparently never [...]

Since mw invited me to guest post on my own blog, because he apparently found a news item about the Tea Party I hadn’t, I thought I’d take him up on his thoughtful offer. I guess I’ll finally find out what it feels like to be him. First, about the Tea Party stuff, great news. [...]

The liberal blog Open Left suddenly announced today that they’ll stop posting content because… we have gradually run out of money to maintain operations. It is a difficult decision, but we kept going for as long as we could. But… The site will not disappear, and all published content will remain online {…} Wait…what? Open [...]

No mystery. I’ve been VERY busy. And I didn’t want to keep posting about being very busy. So I figured, upon returning, I’d just let everybody know what’s going on. Between work and other projects (film and multimedia), my time has been completely consumed. My apologies if it seemed like I don’t care about the [...]

First he told Jeffrey Goldberg that he was wrong when he told Russia to bomb us during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Now he’s saying that the entire Cuban model is flawed? From The Atlantic… But during the generally lighthearted conversation (we had just spent three hours talking about Iran and the Middle East), I asked [...]

Most active political bloggers get between 20 – 30 emails a day from PR companies and other news sources trying to get you to write about their news. Lately I’ve been getting a lot of releases from National Journal about new journos they’re adding to their team. I noticed a few higher profile names, but [...]

We here at Donklephant want to make sure you know that we’re laughing at you, not with you… 23) Saul Alinsky (7) 23) Bill Clinton (7) 23) Hillary Clinton (7) 19) Michael Moore (7) 19) George Soros (8) 19) Alger Hiss (8) 19) Al Sharpton (8) 13) Al Gore (9) 13) Noam Chomsky (9) 13) [...]

Solomon Kleinsmith, who is a contributor here from time to time and just started a great new site The Rise Of The Center, has put together a list of indy/centrist/moderate blogs you should check out. Here’s a taste: The Pragmatic Center – Nick Goebel, who I’ve chatted with a bit, has his head on straight. [...]

This was certainly a nice surprise! In a column that runs through names like Christopher Buckley, Kathleen Parker, Michael Smerconish, Joe Scarborough, Joe Klein and David Broder…we’re mentioned! Here’s the photo. It focuses on Joe Gandelman and the fantastic work he has done with The Moderate Voice, but we’re right there in the description…along with [...]

Just an FYI for those of you who are looking for some late night political reading. Media Temple is scheduling some maintenance on their infrastructure and it’ll mean that the site will most likely be down at that time. But never fear…we’ll be back up soon! Best, Justin

The title says it all. If you tweet or have been thinking of a good excuse to get on Twitter, follow us @thedonklephant. We tweet all of our posts and some other fun facts too. Now, if you’re new to whole “twitter” thing, this article provides some good pointers: What Should I Tweet About? Also, [...]

Hey all, I’ve been dormant these past couple weeks given work and other obligations, so I wanted to write and tell everybody what’s been going on. First and foremost, I’ve been focusing on my job over at AMC. We just launched a new website in late October and you can imagine how much work that [...]

Warning, this may bore some of you to tears. Others may find it absolutely fascinating. My hope is more of you fall into the latter camp since I’ve essentially been forced to give you a behind the scenes look at how contributors come on board. Confused? Don’t be. All will be revealed soon enough. Some [...]

Hey folks, Justin here. Yesterday a new contributor, Kyle Brady, started posting on the site. As is my policy here, I allow people to blog as they see fit unless I think it goes against the spirit of the site. However, upon reading the post, I felt it contained several things that could be considered [...]

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It feels a little hard to believe, but we’re marking another milestone on the site today: 9,000 posts in a little over 4 years. Many, many, many thanks to my fellow contributors who have written thousands of thoughtful posts. And many, many, many thanks to all of you who read and comment everyday. Here’s to [...]

Hey all, I’ve heard quite a bit of back channel chatter about the last two posts on the blog and I wanted to explain how I was responsible for the topic even showing up here in the first place. Doug and I are friends on Facebook and he feeds his posts through his profile. I [...]

I found this over at Power Line and I’m reprinting it in full… I’m delighted to be collaborating with Joe Trippi, one of my favorite liberals, on a bipartisan project to support America’s veterans. The project is called the Eleven Eleven campaign; the objective is to get 11 million Americans to contribute $11 apiece to [...]