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Swampland

McCain's 'Manchurian Candidate' Attack

Today's speech shows that McCain, despite the recent slide in the polls, is determined to continue to disrupt Obama's story line with sharp attacks. Read more

Real Clear Politics

10/6 Recap

Another day of state polling, another day of good news for Obama... Read more

World

The Middle East Blog

Talking to the Taliban: Sign of the Woes in Afghanistan

Seven years after the invasion, is the U.S. strategy doomed to failure as a top British diplomat reportedly believes? Read more

The China Blog

Beijing's "Blue Sky" Days

Earlier this year we mentioned some serious questions raised about Beijing's air pollution statistics. Read more

Business & Technology

The Curious Capitalist

"The Market Has Flopped..."

Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker had a little press conference this morning to discuss the structure of financial regulation or—more precisely, a report called The Structure of Financial Regulation Read more

Work in Progress

How'd You Find Me?

Time.com has a brand spankin' new design. Trolling around it the other day, I found it clean, attractive and relatively easy to maneuver. But there's one big change: there's no link on the home page to the blogs. Read more

Nerd World

Nerd World Book Club: Anathem, Parts 6-10

I have entered a stage familiar to me from other Stephenson books, a state of deep immersion where I carry the thing around all the time and read it while walking, talking on the phone, operating heavy machinery, etc., and can't think about anything else. Read more

Entertainment

Tuned In

Protecting Our Kids from Shows That Suck

I received a screener DVD collection of season one of The Smurfs yesterday and promptly hid it. Read more

Looking Around

Auction House Follies

It appears that last year Sotheby's proposed to "assist" the University of Iowa Museum of Art to sell its most important possession, Jackson's Pollock's great Mural. Read more

Photos

White House Photo Blog

Barack Obama waits for his wife, Michelle and the Bidens to ready themselves for an interview at the Public Library in Detroit, Michigan. View more

Looks like the Republicans are admitting their candidate can't stand up to serious public examination of her fitness. Let's see whether the press makes that THE story - as they should. If the media have any responsibility left, the response should be simple: "No access, no coverage."

• - Posted by FlownOver on Swamplad in response to Jay Newton-Small's "The Palin Surprise"