Here’s a political riddle: When Republicans attack Democrats for allowing third-trimester abortions, why don’t Democrats respond by pointing out that Republicans want to ban first-trimester abortions? When it comes to abortion, Democrats forever allow themselves to fight on Republican terrain. And Republicans know it. On page 92 of the 2004 Republican platform was this sentence.…

Check out this video of Obama shooting hoops. If he’d hit the rim, it would have had no effect on the election. If he’d missed entirely, he would have lost the election (since he’d be an elitist girly-man). But since he hit it, I think he just won Michigan. Maybe Ohio, too.I jest but this…

The political prognostication website 538.com explains that Obama’s supporters are more enthusiastic than McCains and suggests that the solution for McCain might be to put Mike Huckabee on the ticket to rev up evangelicals. “It’s certainly the simplest and most direct way for McCain to lock down the support and enthusiasm of that desperately-needed evangelical…

Via Andrew Sullivan, Jane Mayer elaborates on her criticisms of Marty Seligman, the psychologist who she believes helped the U.S. Government develop torture techniques. Many of her questions are good and we’d like to see him answer them, too. However, her claim that his denial [full text here] made no effort to explain what he…

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