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Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....

The New York Times analyzes its own environmental poll, and concludes, "Public Remains Split on Response to Warming." But on the poll questions (PDF file) that relate to actual proposals in Congress, the public isn't split at all. For example:

The most entertaining liveblog goes to Minnesota Monitor by a mile. D-Day laments: "the country suffers when the questions and the format are seemingly the opposite of what would generate anything informative. I have no idea who won. I don't even know or remember...

Surprisingly little questioning in the presidential debate about what needs to be done to combat global warming, though both former Sen. John Edwards and Sen. Joe Biden were able to work in their support for caps on carbon emissions.

For the health care portion of the presidential debate, moderator Brian Williams did not ask any candidate what they would do to provide universal health insurance. He only asked either "What taxes would you raise?" or "How would you pay for it?" It's not an...

Asked about his criteria for picking Supreme Court justices, Sen. Joe Biden criticized the conservative activist wing of the Court, including the new justices John Roberts and Sam Alito. Discussing the recent abortion ruling, Biden said: The truth of the matter is...

The presidential debate led with Iraq, with much of the discussion tracking what we already heard at the MoveOn.org Town Hall. Except for former Sen. Mike Gravel, who proposed legislation "making it a felony to stay there," telling the current congresspeople on the...

Starting a hour from now (7 PM ET), we'll be liveblogging tonight's Democratic presidential debate, airing on MSNBC. We'll be keeping our eye on the actual substance -- in particular, what they're offering on health care, global warming, Iraq and strengthening our...

Watch conservative leader William Kristol of The Weekly Standard and Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect debate whether "conservatives can be trusted to govern" during a May 3 luncheon at the National Press Club.

Following yesterday's poverty-related posts from Isaiah and me, about how we can avoiding the conservative "us vs. them" frame, Shawn Fremstad from Inclusionist left a provocative comment: ...we need to stop framing the debate in a way that automatically plays into...