Ben Smith posted an interesting chart showing Sarah Palin’s ever increasing fan base on Facebook. Unfortunately, this chart does not mention how many of her 600,000+ fans friended her ironically.

Making matters even more confusing, it’s tough to tell whether comments like this are serious or just a joke:

Sarah, you are our Esther “for such a [...]

I’ve made no secret on this blog that I am a fan of Joe Biden, but he is really starting to kill me.
While mostly flying under the radar in media coverage as a VP candidate thanks to the trainwreck that is (was?) Sarah Palin, I think he deserves credit for convincing many white, blue collar [...]

Normally I avoid Karl Rove’s cookie-cutter partisan drivel at all costs, but this column from a few days ago, “ObamaCare Isn’t Inevitable”, made me laugh. Is he really trying to scuttle health care by dubbing it “ObamaCare?”
For some insight into Rove’s genius, here is what he said two months ago:

Mr. Obama is popular because he [...]

From Politico:

For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to “those powerful few”: Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and — at first — even the paper’s own reporters and editors.
The astonishing offer was detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided [...]

After two weeks of setbacks, the last 24 hours have proven to be a turning point in the fight for universal health care.
As President Obama grabbed the spotlight and held another health care centered town hall, under the radar, more tangible steps were taken towards the elusive legislative victory that has haunted American Presidents for [...]

As covered ad nauseum in the press over the last two weeks, Twitter has been both an organizing force within Iran and a platform to broadcast injustice to the larger world. But it has never been a perfect source of reliability–while many reported with vigor and authenticity, others mistakenly posted false information, and still more [...]

A new trend seems to be emerging in Democratic politics. While Democrats are on target to win additional Governorships and possibly a few Senate seats in 2010, some of the old guard establishment candidates are seeing their polls numbers lagging in their re-election campaigns. And they are turning to a tactic that would have been [...]

And it’s a tie.
They also weren’t said today, but in the early 1970s. Unfortunately, the off-hand quips were not part of the public record until early this morning, as the National Archives released 150 more hours of White House audio tape. As a consequence, we now have two more gems to add to Richard Nixon’s [...]

Christopher Hitchens wonders aloud about the mental stability of the ruling mullahs in Iran:
It is a mistake to assume that the ayatollahs, cynical and corrupt as they may be, are acting rationally. They are frequently in the grip of archaic beliefs and fears that would make a stupefied medieval European peasant seem mentally sturdy and [...]

There have been many fascinating articles published over the last week that try to explain today’s situation in Iran through the prism of the country’s 1979 Revolution, and to better understand the situation they now face, you should read as many as you can get your hands on.
Unfortunately for the English reader, all the Kh [...]

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