by Bill Scher | Apr 9, 2008 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
Earlier this week, I mentioned that the conservative blog RedState is trying to pressure the traditional media to treat critiques of John McCain's embrace of a 100-year occupation of Iraq as lies and distortion. Today, RedState sent an email alert to readers to...
by Sara Robinson | Apr 1, 2008 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
The old joke goes that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who think there are two kinds of people in the world, and those who don't. Funny thing is: it's not a joke. In fact, it turns out that this one oddly recursive fact can tell us a whole lot about...
by Bill Scher | Jun 18, 2007 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
The Take Back America session was titled "How Conservatism Has Failed," but with the strong desire for positive change, discussion quickly moved to how to turn that failure into progressive action. Our own Rick Perlstein succinctly summed up why conservatism failed,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 17, 2007 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
Isaiah J. Poole is the executive editor of TomPaine.com. We’ve made some changes to TomPaine.com that will make it faster-paced, more interactive and more compelling. You will notice that we have elevated our editor’s blog to be the centerpiece of our...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 21, 2007 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
Columnist Paul Krugman on Monday wrote that he did something highly risky: He ate a salad. We are well familiar with the e. coli contamination of lettuce and spinach, and the more recent cases of pet food contamination. But Krugman, following on the heels of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 3, 2007 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
When Rick Perlstein, a senior fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future, wanted to offer an example of how conservatives have gotten government wrong, he talked about chickens. These are chickens that are carrying a chemical that is used to make plastic forks and...
