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Hypocrisy can be funny

As Jon Stewart shows here: (Warning: There is one naughty word). Teen pregnancy. Women candidates. Qualifications for office. It's all covered. ( Full post )

Change or Experience?

Now that the conventions have passed and a Republican star is born, it's safe to say that experience isn't the issue that's carrying the day. ( Full post )

Palin at the plate

The news of the day has to be Sarah Palin. Back, back, back, back, back ... yep, it was a home run. ( Full post )

The obligatory John McCain story

The Onion is one of my favorite sources of non-news, though I understand its slick look has deceived more than one reader into thinking it contained legitimate news, not satire. This morning's Onion article about John McCain is entertaining because of its insight into the challenges newspapers face during times like these. ( Full post )

Home run call

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Civic Elder: Leonard Doohan

(Photo by Rajah Bose/The Spokesman-Review.) ( Full post )

Obama: The early years

The Palin drone is irritating some of the customers here at MOO. What about Obama? Where's the details on him? ( Full post )

Gimme an N. Gimme an O.

What's that spell? Our View on the push for public funds to renovate Husky Stadium. ( Full post )

Wednesday's Loose Thread

Can't stop yawning this morning. Got plenty of sleep. Coffee at my side. Can't quite put my finger on it. ( Full post )

The Drive at 5

Here's an open thread to discuss Joe Biden or something. You remember Biden, right? Right?
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Parenting and Palin

Here's a good New York Times article on the reaction of mothers to Sarah Palin. At the end, it mentions Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who has a child with Down syndrome. ( Full post )

Tuesday's Loose Thread

OK, not much going on. A bit of a storm in the GOP camp. Gustav has blown over. ( Full post )

Proceed with highway work

The long debate has secured improvements to the plan, and a federal appeals court has speedily rejected further protests. It's time for Idaho to proceed with the Sandpoint bypass on U.S. Highway 95. So says Tuesday's editorial. ( Full post )

Was Sarah Palin vetted?

We know that McCain first met her in February. I believe their appearance in Dayton was the second time they've been together. ( Full post )

Calling all followers

Back when the field of 2008 presidential candidates seemingly numbered in the dozens, I found myself hoping for an Obama-McCain final. There were two people who had shown enough independence to deal with ideological conflict as honest, respectable differences of opinion. Both had shown an ability to see merit in the opposition's case and to join forces across party lines in the interest of a solemnly held value.
With candidates like that on the ballot, maybe we could have an enlightened, constructive and informative campaign.
So far, I think the candidates have done a pretty good job of voicing their cases without some of the mean-spirited pettiness that has become common in years past. It's all relative, of course.
Still, as some of the evolving threads on this and other blogs show, the leaders may be trying to show the way, but the followers have gone off along tired old paths of negativism.
In my opinion, it's a sad reflection on the candidates if the most their backers can do is trash the opposition.
If that's the what the campaign promises, we'll have missed a rare opportunity. ( Full post )

Happy Labor Day

The Baby Boom generation is starting to exit the work force stage. Monday's editorial suggests the Boomers ought to consider a curtain call. ( Full post )

Sunday editorials

All politics, all the time. Today's "Our view" offereings include a comment apiece on the nomonations (or nomination to be in one case) of Barack Obama and Sarah Palin. ( Full post )

From our downtown branch

Do you remember the flap over demolishing the historic Mowawk and Rookery buildings? Have you followed the conflict that has ensued over the trees surrounding the parking lot that's there now? Today's editorial brings you up to date. ( Full post )

Dumb Bomb

Worst point of the day about Sarah Palin comes from Steve Doocy of Fox News. He explains how Palin does indeed have foreign policy experience. More than Joe Biden. You just have to listen to appreciate it. ( Full post )

Palin, eh?

How do you feel about John McCain's pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate -- bypassing such big names as Romney, Ridge and Pawlenty? ( Full post )