As times passes, thousands of memories become hundreds which then become just a few. It’s always so hard to predict, in the moment, which will be the memories that survive. I remember less and less about 9/11 but the few flickering images are vivid. I was in Washington and my family was here in NYC…

The other day I wondered allowed if I’d missed some big John McCain national service speech. He’d been a big advocate of civilian service for years but I hadn’t heard anything about it, while Obama has been emphasizing it (more about Obama’s plan here). Paul Glastris, the editor of the Washington Monthly, which published McCain’s…

“The more the New York Times and The Washington Post go after Sarah Palin, the better off she is, because there’s a bigger truth out there and the bigger truths are she’s new, she’s popular in Alaska and she is an insurgent. As long as those are out there, these little facts don’t really matter.”…

Those of you think Sarah Palin is dangerous because she belongs to that mysterious brand of Christianity known as Pentecostalism (i.e. one of the fastest growing denominations), might want take note of the fact that Leah Daughtry, the CEO of the Democratic National Convention and Joshua Dubois, Obama’s faith outreach director, are both Pentecostals, too.…

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