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...weeks visiting election-news sites and hitting the Refresh button on your Web browser. New Fox News poll out this afternoon! No? Let's go to Gawker and see what Elisabeth Hasselbeck said about Barack Obama on The View today! Are those poll numbers up at Politico? Drudge? Huffington Post? No? Refresh...
...Colombia Free at Last After eight years as a prisoner of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), former Colombian lawmaker Oscar Lizcano escaped from his captors, hiking for three days with his former farc guard through the jungle before reaching an army post. His escape is the latest setback for the rebel group, weakened by defections and a daring operation earlier this year that rescued 15 hostages, including politician Ingrid Betancourt...
...month. The ACLU focused in particular on two of the state’s standards that will immediately nullify a voter’s registration: if he or she obtains a driver’s license in another state and if the mailed voter cards are returned by the post office as undeliverable. This case highlights the problem with inconsistent voter registration standards. Differing standards between states can cause confusion for new voters, and in particular for college students who frequently travel back and forth between states...
...doesn’t always work. In the British election of 1992, Neil Kinnock ran a similar campaign and lost narrowly to a post-Thatcher Conservative Party which had been in power for 13 years. John Major, who won, succeeded in distancing himself from Mrs. Thatcher, who by then had become unpopular both inside and outside her party, particularly over the issue of greater ties with Europe. Similarly, John McCain has attempted to move away from the Bush administration...
...Microcastle” sheds both the pretension of “Cryptograms” and the monotony of the band’s last release, the EP “Fluorescent Grey.” The album is a mild, atmospheric, and irresistibly catchy progression of dreamy, post-shoegaze pop, anchored in conventional rock structures and traditions. The waltzing, operatic opener, “Cover Me (Slowly),” only drifts in its guitar-effect cloud for a little over a minute before snapping into the more mechanical “Agoraphobia.” The latter?...