The Lippard Blog

Kat and I made arrangements to travel to D.C. for the inauguration a few months before the election. Our plan was to attend regardless of w...

Newsweek reports some interesting tidbits from behind the scenes of the election process in both the McCain and Obama campaigns : Both the ...

Arizona will now have a majority of Democratic Representatives in the House, as Rick Renzi is replaced by Ann Kirkpatrick in District 1 in a...

From the Iowa State Daily : Audience members escorted out of Sen. John McCain’s, R-Ariz., campaign event in Cedar Falls questioned why they ...

Amy Silverman's "Love the War, Neglect the Warrior: His fame's based on his POW status, but Senator John McCain's made a po...

There are reports that Sarah Palin is "going rogue" by continually going off message and clashing with key McCain aides. One McC...

Daniel Zubairi, one of McCain's state leaders for Maryland, stepped forward to publicly criticize a person who was criticizing Obama and...

Arizona ballot proposition 101, the Medical Choice for Arizona amendment, says this : Be it enacted by the People of Arizona: 1. ...

This is no doubt not a representative cross-section of McCain and Palin supporters, but it's a disturbingly ugly set of them. It's ...

The Economist conducted a poll of 683 research associates of the National Bureau of Economic Research . 142 responded, of whom 46% self-id...

McCain's economic advisors : Doug Holtz-Eakin source Holtz-Eakin is a formerly respected academic and government economist who has been...

Sam Harris has a great op-ed piece at Newsweek : The problem, as far as our political process is concerned, is that half the electorate reve...

I've previously written to critique claims that Sarah Palin is a Christian reconstructionist or dominionist , or that she's a young-...

Radley Balko at The Agitator replies to Jennifer Rubin at Commentary about why the Washington Post's coverage of Cindy McCain's add...

A McCain-Palin ad cites factcheck.org to claim that Obama has made false attacks on Palin--but the attacks haven't come from Obama. McC...

Sarah Palin said in an interview with Charlie Gibson that Alaska "produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy.&quo...

USA Today reports that the Biden family has given $3,690 to charity over the last decade , an average of $369 per year, on "modest&quo...

Yahoo reports : Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has charged her state a daily allowance, normally used for official travel, for more than 300 night...

The Daily Show has outdone itself with this one. UPDATE (September 8, 2008): The part about McCain crashing five planes isn't true .

Campbell Brown at CNN shows what a reporter is supposed to do when questioning the representative of a political candidate--insist that they...