I’ve written before about the federal government’s experimentation with blogging. It’s a “let’s wait and see” thing for me but mostly, I’d have to be convinced that it’s not all about spin. A little over a week ago, Democratic presidential candidate and Senator (D-NY), Hillary Clinton indicated a desire to employ bloggers throughout the federal government. From Wired: “We should even have a government blogging team where people in the agencies...

Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center, published this blog entry tonight that examines the male vote behavior related to Democratic presidential candidates and U.S Senators, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. The gist of his findings: …a strong plurality of men [back] Obama. According to the Edison/Mitofsky entrance polls in Iowa, 35 percent of male caucus-goers supported Senator Obama, compared with 23 percent who backed Senator Clinton. In the New Hampshire primary, Senator Obama...

Maybe Canada just wants the U.S. to know how it feels to be on one of the less desirable lists. But is the implication in the statement in the title – that the US may torture or abuse prisoners – true or false? And if it’s true… That’s what I started to think about after I read this New York Times’ article, “Canadian Manual has U.S. on Torture List.” A training manual for Canadian diplomats lists the United States among countries that potentially torture...

On Tuesday of this week (1/15), National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation broadcast a five-minute segment called, “First-Name Basis?”. Here’s the teaser: Listeners comment on the implications of calling women by their first names and men by their surnames, and NPR Ombudsman Lisa Shepard talks about gender references and reporting. Shepard and host, Neal Conan, review how, when Hillary Clinton was more or less “just” Bill’s wife, reporters called her “Mrs....