Fact checkers are not under assault—but poor fact checking should be
Sadly, this is not in the spirit of Christmas. I originally was going to write a charming tale about a Christmas-saving rodent of some kind, because people seem to like that sort of thing and because during Christmas-time, even disease-carrying vermin...
Fact checkers are not under assault—but poor fact checking should be
Sadly, this is not in the spirit of Christmas. I originally was going to write a charming tale about a Christmas-saving rodent of some kind, because people seem to like that sort of thing and because during Christmas-time, even disease-carrying vermin...
Early state polls: Gingrich with wide lead, Romney headed for third in Iowa?
Sources: PPP | ABC/WaPo | Winthrop
As you can see, Newt Gingrich's surge is showing no signs of relenting—he continues to open up the widest leads of any candidate thus far in the campaign, and given that all his baggage is so widely known, ...
ABC/Washington Post poll: Herman Cain soars despite sexual harrassment allegations
(Jason Reed/Reuters)
Abt/SRBI for Washington Post/ABC News. 10/31-11/3. Registered voters (Republicans and GOP-leaning independents). MoE ±5.5% (9/29-10/2 results):
Mitt Romney: 24 (25)
Herman Cain: 23 (17)
Rick Perry: 13 (17)
Newt Gingrich: 12 (9)
...
Ten years later … our failed elites
The Legislative Belly. View of the ministerial benches in the improstituted house of 1834.
(Daumier, Hammer Collection)
Via Atrios, Fred Hiatt proves he is the same as he ever was—dumb as a bag of hammers. On the last 10 years, Hiatt's WaPo says, "...
President Obama, Congress hit record lows in pair of new polls
(Yuri Gripas/Reuters)
President Obama's approval rating is now at its lowest point ever in a pair of new polls, with Congress ranked even lower.
NBC/Wall Steet Journal (data):
After the bruising debt-ceiling fight — as well as Standard &...
Polls: Liberals steady in Obama support, everyone in DC looks worse to public
Gallup, week of July 25-31
From Gallup this afternoon:
Most of the week's news headlines focused on failed plans and recriminatory accusations, although by Sunday, congressional leaders and the president announced the outline of a negotiated agreemen...
Did Grover Norquist really give GOP permission to end the Bush tax cuts?
This guy is cool with ending the
Bush tax cuts? Are you kidding?!?
(Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
Washington Post editorial board:
WITH A HANDFUL of exceptions, every Republican member of Congress has signed a pledge against increasing taxes. Would ...
Did Grover Norquist really give GOP permission to end the Bush tax cuts?
This guy is cool with ending the
Bush tax cuts? Are you kidding?!?
(Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
Washington Post editorial board:
WITH A HANDFUL of exceptions, every Republican member of Congress has signed a pledge against increasing taxes. Would ...
The Washington Post’s bizarre defense of the Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. phone hacking scandal
Reporting the news is so old school
If this was the mindset at the Washington Post in the 1970s, Richard Nixon would have served out his second term:
The phone-hacking scandal surrounding Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. has just about everything: charg...
David Broder, the Best Boy on the Campaign Bus, Dies at 81
Filed under: Obits, 2012 PresidentThe legendary Washington Post political reporter treated his journalistic calling and the voters with reverence and never succumbed to the know-it-all self-importance that is an occupational hazard on the political bea...
