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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
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Having seen photo propaganda used in the media to benefit Barack Obama, one has to wonder if it will be equally important to circulate a picture that may not show the 'savior' in a particularly good light. As such, a ticket design for the Democratic National Convention has been accompanied by a bit of controversy. The credential appears to show an upside-down American flag on both sides. What's worse,...
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The Carpetbagger Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Now that my friend Kevin Drum has made the announcement, I can pass along the big news. Starting this Friday, Aug. 22, Kevin will be leaving the Washington Monthly, heading over to a new blog at Mother Jones. He’ll be replaced at Political Animal by … me. Yes, five-and-a-half years and more than 16,000 posts later, I’m [...]
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Greg Mankiw's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
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My friend Bob Carroll does the math : Senator Obama would raise the top individual tax rate back to 39.6 percent, impose an additional 2 to 4 percent tax on earnings for some over the existing Social Security wage cap, and bring back the phase-out of the personal exemption and certain itemized deductions for higher-income taxpayers. When added up, the top effective marginal tax rate rises...from 37.9...
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homebiznotes.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
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HomeBizNotes.com To celebrate the U.S. release of Harry Potter, The Story of a Global Business Phenomenon by Susan Gunelius, we’re conducting a random drawing giveaway of a copy of the book. (See my interview of Susan at Home Biz Notes for more information about the book and why Susan wrote it.) Simply leave a comment below telling us [...]
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Digital Influence Mapping Project (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
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Marketing and public relations are coming together. PR is growing as an industry while "traditional" advertising - what ever that is - remains flat. Still, we have taken no new ground in 'measurement' and articulating the tremendous ROI of PR....
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
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The Associated Press is so omnipotent that it can divine what poll results mean, even if it directly contradicts what the pollster says about them. The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press announced the results of a poll it did on the presidential race on Wednesday. AP must not have liked Pew's results or its conclusions, because, in an unbylined report, it totally recast them , as you'll...
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snapped shot (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
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HIGHLAND, Calif. — Authorities say a 16-year-old girl who died after losing control of her car had been texting on her cell phone moments before the accident. Kayla Preuss, of Highland, was driving on the Interstate 10 Freeway in Redlands when she lost control of her car and crashed. She died of head injuries. Authorities say Preuss had been driving drunk and was speeding. But another factor may have...
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The Carlat Psychiatry Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
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According to a paper published in the current issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, Merck conducted a sham clinical trial whose purpose was to turn 600 physician-researchers into marketing seeds to boost sales of its arthritis medication Vioxx. This study, called the ADVANTAGE trial, was billed by the company as a placebo-controlled study comparing Vioxx with the pain reliever Naproxen. However, according...
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Travel Weekly Blog (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
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The US National Hurricane Center's latest advisory puts Tropical storm Fay over Cuba and moving towards Florida, with sustained wind speeds of 50mph (hurricane strength is 74mph and above). Image: National Hurricane CenterThe following warnings are in place in Florida:...
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
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If you go to any of the major sports sites on the Web—ESPN.com, Yahoo Sports,, Sports Illustrated—you’ll find pretty much the same thing: a picture of Michael Phelps, Olympics coverage, and maybe some fantasy baseball. David Katz, a former Yahoo executive who used to run Yahoo Sports, is trying something different with SportsFanLive, which [...]
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The Debate Link (Free subscription) | yesterday
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I'm somewhat of a zealot when it comes to attacking the use of the term "Judeo-Christian", which I think inaccurately lumps together two very different religious traditions. Sometimes my critique is thus on the general usage , and other times it's about particularly inane applications. John McCain, apparently, likes to use "Judeo-Christian" a lot. And if the Boston Globe's coverage is at all reliable,...
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enrevanche (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Edwards: The Musical @ McSweeney's. Just go. Now. Hat tip: Carrie
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Power Line (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
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In yesterday's radio address, John McCain talked about how the energy issue unites foreign and domestic policy. He began with Russia's invasion of Georgia, and explained how that conflict relates to energy and thus to domestic policy: Georgia stands at a strategic crossroads in the Caucasus. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, which brings oil from the Caspian to points west, traverses Georgia. And...
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Respectful Insolence (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Late this afternoon, I happened to be sitting in my office perusing the websites for the latest batch of surgical journals, trying desperately to catch up on my reading, something that I, like most academic surgeons, am chronically behind in, when I happened upon the website of the Archives of Surgery . There, the lead article caught my eye, and I downloaded it for later reading. Then, as I perused...
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Advice Goddess Blog (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
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Was the reason our founding fathers fought for free speech really so tiny little thugs who call themselves "progressives" can foil any possibility of it on the websites of anyone whose speech they disagree with?
