I really like Michael Dobbs. He’s generally fair and balanced in sifting through truth and fantasy spun by candidates on all sides of any ticket. . .sort of a “just the facts, ma’am” kind of guy.

Congressman and financial policy wizard Barney Frank (D-MA) is sanguine about these takeovers. He thinks that Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson is taking the right steps and will steady and balance Freddie and Fannie. My own view is that when the U.S.

Last evening, I attended the moving wedding of my friend Mark Brzezinski and his beautiful new wife Natalia Lopatniuk. The ceremony and dinner were held at the National Museum for Women in the Arts — which has a wonderful collection of painting and sculpture I had never seen before.

This 3 minute clip has some pretty darned good stuff from Joe Biden.

(Wasilla Public Library in 1950s) I’m about the last in the blogosphere to paste this balanced and sober historiography of Sarah Palin’s life and views — as told by a fellow resident of Wasilla, Alaska.

A friend from CNN just sent me this video clip from Tuesday, 26 August in Denver. I liked it as it reminded me how incredibly exciting the opening days of the Dem convention were.

I just received notice that the next International Atomic Energy Agency report to its board of governors on Iran will be Monday. Hopefully, I’ll get this report soon after distribution to the board from embedded sources and will have the findings here.

I’ve always been intrigued with political franchises. I used to study the crime bosses of Chicago and the political/criminal bosses of Japan.

I’ve had a couple of weeks now of travel and have enjoyed most of it — to Denver for the DNC, Boston for APSA, and Minneapolis/St. Paul for the RNC.

Thanks to TWN reader “ces” who professes not to be a photo shop expert, but he has fixed the two typos in posters being waved around at the Republican National Convention the last two nights. TWN reader Julianne sent the original two pics in this morning.