Most pundits agreed that Hillary Clinton delivered a big speech on Tuesday night, but what impressed the liberal punditry the most-including the likes of Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann, was her “sock to the face” of John McCain, 71. The chattering classes agreed that the Dems need to take the gloves off, because that’s the [...]

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All eyes are on Denver this week for the convention. With 15,000 journalists roaming area surrounding the Pepsi Center for scoops, there’s no shortage of stories pouring out of the Mile High city. But pumping out informative —and hopefully entertaining —pieces isn’t just a matter of being in the right place at the right time [...]

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Blaming the media is what grown ups do when the dog ate their home work. Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell is no different.
Instead of delivering closing remarks at a panel where Tom Brokaw of NBC News, Bob Schieffer of CBS News and George Stephanopoulos of ABC News agreed that election coverage has been pretty fair and [...]

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If you missed Tuesday’s Democratic debate in Ohio and then looked at a collection of headlines, you would think it had been an all out catfight between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. (Excuse the expression— I don’t want to be accused of sexism, maybe I should call it a decidedly manly term like a “battle” [...]

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Sometimes “Martin’s got cooties!” and “Madison just peed her pants - again!” aren’t the only things hollered on the playground. In an event as likely as pigs taking flight, trashy British tabloid The Sun has gotten serious and pulled together a cross-section of kids to talk about the racial slurs they’ve been stung [...]

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CBS News’ Baghdad Correspondent Lara Logan recently sent out an e-mail pleading for friends and colleagues to push CBS to air her “Battle of Haifa Street” report on any of their news programs. They have thus far agreed only to post the video on their Web site. Watch it here and you’ll see why they’re [...]

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Dubbed “digital natives” or “the thumb generation,” young people today are quick to adopt new technologies and to adapt them as they like. Exactly what they’re doing and why is research gold for anyone interested in the future.
Take the way kids create languages to facilitate text messaging. (In case you’re older than 26 [...]

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The Vanity Fair expose killing on Bush Administration incompetence is busting out beyond the usual VF readership of 300 ziillion because it kills using the words of the very neocon theorists who engineered the insane “liberation” of Iraq. David Rose, who interviewed the neocons, told his interviewees that the piece was slotted to run in [...]

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