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  • Rated Who Will Restore the Balance of Power? (Blog entry) | June 26, 2008 - 10:30am
  • Published Weekend Watchdog Wrap-up (Blog entry)
    June 23, 2008 - 10:08am

    This Sunday was a real head-scratcher for the Watchdog. Depending on how you look a it we 0-for-3, because none of our questions were asked. On the other hand, maybe we 2-for-3, since two of our questions were answered even though they weren't asked.

  • Published Weekend Watchdog (Blog entry)
    June 20, 2008 - 4:38pm

    Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked. We'll post a wrap-up here on the blog on Monday.

  • Published Money to Learn (Blog entry)
    June 19, 2008 - 4:03pm

    It's the kind of thing that's easily written off as a photo opportunity: a presidential candidate sitting down with a worried student and a financial aid administrator, working out a plan to help the student pay for her education. But, not if the candidate is one who understands the importance of education, and the difficulty of paying for it. So, when I read about Barack Obama helping a college student with her tuition concerns, it made sense.

  • Published Drill Here. Wait 10 Years. (Blog entry)
    June 18, 2008 - 1:25am

    First John McCain, then Newt Gingrich, and now president Bush — in an apparent about-face that puts him in the position of opposing both his father and his brother — has taken to peddling offshore drilling as the quickest way to ease consumer pain at the gas pump. As Isaiah J. Poole pointed out, Gingrich has even launched an online campaign, with a simple slogan: "Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less."

    But the reality is more like, "Drill Here. Wait Ten Years."

  • Commented Interesting Anecdote in a discussion on Real Men Don't Type (Blog entry) | June 16, 2008 - 10:04am
  • June 13, 2008 - 11:00am
    Remember subprime mortgages? They've been nudged out of the headlines by gas prices lately, but they — and the crisis catalyzed by the collapse of the subprime market — are still news.
  • Published Weekend Watchdog: Open Thread (Blog entry)
    June 6, 2008 - 10:52am

    It's that time again. Time for the watch to patrol the Sunday shows, on the look-out for a relevant question — should one get through. Which ones should get through? Make your suggestions and pose your questions in the comments, and when the guests are announced this evening we may pick some of your questions for the Watchdog. Come back and check out our usual Weekend Watchdog post to see who's on the guest list and whether your question is on the Watchdog list.

  • Published History (Blog entry)
    June 4, 2008 - 9:50am

    I can only think of one moment in my memory that compares to this. It was when I stood in front of my television and watched the Berlin wall come down, live on CNN. I'm not yet sure that another wall has come down now. But there's an opening now. It was there before, but it's much, much wider now. Through it, we can just see the other side, and even have more hope of reaching it.

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  • Published Weekend Watchdog Wrap-up (Blog entry)
    June 23, 2008 - 10:08am

    This Sunday was a real head-scratcher for the Watchdog. Depending on how you look a it we 0-for-3, because none of our questions were asked. On the other hand, maybe we 2-for-3, since two of our questions were answered even though they weren't asked.

  • Published Weekend Watchdog (Blog entry)
    June 20, 2008 - 4:38pm

    Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked. We'll post a wrap-up here on the blog on Monday.

  • Published Money to Learn (Blog entry)
    June 19, 2008 - 4:03pm

    It's the kind of thing that's easily written off as a photo opportunity: a presidential candidate sitting down with a worried student and a financial aid administrator, working out a plan to help the student pay for her education. But, not if the candidate is one who understands the importance of education, and the difficulty of paying for it. So, when I read about Barack Obama helping a college student with her tuition concerns, it made sense.

  • Published Drill Here. Wait 10 Years. (Blog entry)
    June 18, 2008 - 1:25am

    First John McCain, then Newt Gingrich, and now president Bush — in an apparent about-face that puts him in the position of opposing both his father and his brother — has taken to peddling offshore drilling as the quickest way to ease consumer pain at the gas pump. As Isaiah J. Poole pointed out, Gingrich has even launched an online campaign, with a simple slogan: "Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less."

    But the reality is more like, "Drill Here. Wait Ten Years."

  • June 13, 2008 - 11:00am
    Remember subprime mortgages? They've been nudged out of the headlines by gas prices lately, but they — and the crisis catalyzed by the collapse of the subprime market — are still news.
  • Published Weekend Watchdog: Open Thread (Blog entry)
    June 6, 2008 - 10:52am

    It's that time again. Time for the watch to patrol the Sunday shows, on the look-out for a relevant question — should one get through. Which ones should get through? Make your suggestions and pose your questions in the comments, and when the guests are announced this evening we may pick some of your questions for the Watchdog. Come back and check out our usual Weekend Watchdog post to see who's on the guest list and whether your question is on the Watchdog list.

  • Published History (Blog entry)
    June 4, 2008 - 9:50am

    I can only think of one moment in my memory that compares to this. It was when I stood in front of my television and watched the Berlin wall come down, live on CNN. I'm not yet sure that another wall has come down now. But there's an opening now. It was there before, but it's much, much wider now. Through it, we can just see the other side, and even have more hope of reaching it.

  • Published The War Inside (Blog entry)
    May 23, 2008 - 12:08pm
    If my father were alive this Memorial Day, he would still display the flag. But not without anger, if he knew how today's veterans are abandoned to fight the war inside — the same one he fought when he came home — on their own.
  • Published Dear Congressional Conservatives (Blog entry)
    May 22, 2008 - 10:10am
    If you guys want to keep governing, you're going to have to think about whether the realities more and more Americans face are problems that require a solution, and whether a conservative government — or government, period — can solve them. No, scratch that. You're going to have to think about whether a conservative government — or government, period — should solve them.

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