If you’ve ever seen NOW with David Brancaccio and Maria Hinojosa, you’ll know they always do fascinating, in-depth reporting about the American experience and beyond. Their coverage of the 2008 election has been no different.
Now they have a page up over at pbs.org called the Democracy Toolkit. It’s basically a bunch of links that voters [...]

As always, Michael Totten gives us some of the personal and honest coverage around…
FALLUJAH – The United States military plans to formally hand over Anbar Province to the Iraqis this spring because the insurgency truly is finished in that part of the country. Most Americans have heard about the success in this province by now, [...]

I was tagged by Pat over at Stubborn Facts.
Here’s the game…

Pick up the nearest book ( of at least 123 pages).
Open the book to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the next three sentences.
Tag five people.

Right now I’m reading Marketing to Moviegoers: A Handbook of Strategies Used by Major Studios and Independents.. Here’s my meme…

Activision alleged [...]

A snarky response to an earnest question:
I’m not sure whether I should feel flattered or annoyed with all the attention Justin Gardner of Donklephant has given me recently. Donklephant turning into Michael Van Der Galiën Watch? It’s great that Justin has moved from Ron Paul to Barack Obama - good decision - but it’s getting [...]

If you’ve been following my discussion with Michael about Obama and Hillary, then you’re all caught up. If not, you can click here and here.
Initially we were talking about identity politics, but the discussion quickly moved onto the experience issue and what being “moderate” means. Basically, I’ve been taking Michael to task for railing Obama [...]

I was just over at Joe’s place and found this (comment, arrow and circle are mine)…

Just to be clear, Google ads are ALL automated so bloggers have nothing to do with this content showing up on their site. However, they can filter out the URL in question so ads from that URL don’t show up [...]

(UPDATED and pushed to the top because of a response I gave to Michael’s counterpost.)
Why is Michael van der Galien buying into Taylor Marsh’s dissection of a video where Obama uses some lingo made famous by Malcolm X?
First, here’s the video…

Then, Marsh’s question after the video…
But why isn’t Barack Obama’s speech, which he touts on [...]

This podcast looks at (1) results of the South Carolina Democratic Primary; (2) a brief discussion about the media coverage of identity politics and (3) a look ahead to the Florida and February 5th primaries…
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A new site just popped up, at least for me, and I’m intrigued. It’s called RedBlueAmerica and it’s put together by the E.W. Scripps Company, which owns cable outlets HGTV, the Food Network, the DIY Network, Fine Living and Great American Country (GAC). They also own a bunch of newspapers and local TV stations.
So why [...]

Obama does not, however, praise his policies.
Here’s the video:

Note to liberal blogosphere, what Obama wants to be is the “liberal” Reagan. On election night 2008 he wants to hear how “Obama Republicans” gave him a decisive victory over the Repubilcan nominee. That way he can get the nation behind ideas like universal health care, [...]

Since I have a background in public relations and marketing, the following explanation as to why the Department of Justice can’t put Talking Points Memo back on their press release list is especially funny.
From Balloon Juice:
Mr. Berger,
I appreciated your desire to be in tune with DOJ press releases, however, unfortunately I am not able to [...]

Bloggers will be short changed as columnists, pundits, and politicians compete for the limited supply of phrases containing the word “change” for the needed blog post titles to describe the NH results in the next 24 hours. But leopards can’t change their spots, and unless you are a lead blogger, the view never changes.

I’ve also never read anything he wrote. But his final post, published post-humously, is incredibly touching.
Rest in peace.
UPDATE:
I can’t believe I spelled his name wrong. Many apologies. Thanks to Jim S for giving me a heads up.

[Re-published from 2008Central.net. We will update this post on Donklephant periodically, but for the latest check out the live blog at 2008Central.net]
Tonight, the New Hampshire Democratic Party is having its annual 100 Club Dinner. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Bill Richardson and Dennis Kucinich will be delivering speeches at this event. You [...]

So says Bloggasm:
It has long been understood that the largest liberal blogs have generally produced more web traffic than the largest conservative blogs. But I have noticed a general trend over the past few months that I didn’t want to write about until the end of the year. After surveying the traffic stats of many [...]

1,532 posts.
9,113 comments.
561,467 unique visits.
760,434 page views.
Hello 2008.

So then, we’ve raised around $105.50 so far, even though the donation meter says $15.50. See, I wasn’t smart enough to set that up when I first started the drive, but trust that before I did we had around $90 in the till.
And while I’m very thankful for all of you who’ve helped out [...]

It took about two and a half years, but check out our sitemeter for all the details. Right now we sit 1,000,047 total visits and 1,451,712 total page views. w00t!
And if you’re in a giving mood, hit our donation drive on the far right to help celebrate this event. Things have been slow going so [...]

A reader suggested I use a ChipIn widget instead of just doing posts, so I set up an account. The good thing about this is you can now just click on this widget directly and donate through PayPal.

To date we’ve raised $80, so there’s a long way to go before we hit $3,000, but many [...]

So far we’ve raised $80! Big thanks to everybody who has donated to date.
However, the aim is $3,000 so we’re really quite far from our goal. Maybe my aim was too lofty, but I imagined that we’d get at least 60 donations the first couple days, not 6. :-)
In any event, remember that all the [...]