What a coincidence...a new politics section on the same day "The Politico" appears.
Take that Vandeharris!

Is Condi Rice on her way out?
During President Bush's State of the Union address Condi Rice appeared distanced and aloof. Also during her recent visit to the Middle East she did not seem to be convinced at of all of what she was saying, especially reviving the peace plan. And if she is not convinced how is she going to convince others?

Could it be that she is getting ready to jump from the sinking ship? It would be interesting to find out what other bloggers think?
http://blameislam.blogspot.com/

Will we see substantive coverage of issues?

Since you hype the fix, which the brilliant Mr. Cizilla unfortuantely uses purely for inane horserace commentary, I doubt it.

WHEN will you cover the issues and not make us look up positions while you guys chat horserace years in advance of an election?

Why not have a blog on something that has to do with the deeper nature of reality ?
Opinions, as we all know, are quite abundant.
Why not examine ourselves, our consciousness, the lens thru which we form all of these opinions. Without which there would be no theories or opinions on any subject.
For instance the theory that we have three separate and distinct natures. Animal nature in our lower spine, human nature in our brains, and the divine in our hearts.
These are the kinds of things that we don't discuss enough, we just give our opinions because that's the way we feel about something, but WHY do we feel that way ?

I still wonder why the name 'White House Briefing' is inappropriate for Froomkin's blog, when WaPo obviously has no problem with 'Capitol Briefing'...

To: Mr. William Arkin. With all due respect Mr. Arkin I believe that your comments about our troops calling them mercenaries are disrespectful and offensive. It only shows your ignorance of the English language. Be very grateful that you live in a country like ours which is protected by the great men and women that serve in our Armed Forces.

On a funny note, I can't help but love the George Bush spoof rap video. http://www.laughfast.com
Haha, He's a curious George...

Howard Kurtz in his Media Notes Friday got completely and humiliatingly taken by a scam. He linked to two "blogs" that he said offered "typical" reaction to the idiotic Speaker-plane story (obviously drummed up by the RNC). Neither of these blogs were even real political blogs, much less "typical", and in fact one had only one post (the one that Kurtz thought was so typical) and the other was also almost brand new. (Roger Ailes explains all this, having actually done the media reporting work Kurtz gets paid for.)

Okay-- so how on earth did Kurtz get the URLs for these blogs? Who sent him these links? Did he check the links or just take the summary sent him by someone else (because he leaves out some of the relevant posts)? Does he know who sent him these links and why? Do his readers-- us-- have no right to know how and why he is so gullible to this sort of spin-release? Think of it. These are new and unread blogs. They have virtually no traffic. They have never been linked to before. So Kurtz couldn't just have happened on them perusing blogs. He had to be led to them. So who did he leading? And when, oh, when, is he going to start doing his job and actually asking questions instead of just writing what he is told to write? And if he is just going to write what he is told, how about letting us know who told him to write this?

Where are his editors? If he were a real reporter, you would have fired him or at least suspended him for pretty much just printing a press release instead of writing a story. But of course, he is not a real reporter. He is a pundit, and there are no standards at all for them, right? No editing, no fact-checking.

The Washington Post might someday be again a decent newspaper and/or website. But this is not going to happen as long as you let sloppy thinkers and writers and workers like Kurtz and Richard Cohen collect a paycheck. There are young, hungry, eager reporters-- how about taking Howard Kurtz's no doubt huge paycheck and hiring a few real reporters?

And, oh by the way, it looks like you finally fixed that apostrophe problem in the comments! Thanks!

And a p.s. here-- I tried to use your email the ombudsman feature to alert Ms.Howells to this latest Kurtz problem. But I just got error messages. Could be my computer-- but you might check that.