TM (AFP/Saul Loeb)Happy Thanksgiving AllWinners will be announced Monday PMWinners to last Monday's contest will be announced some time on Friday

Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday did not rule out running for president alongside Fox News host Glenn Beck in 2012," Andy Barr reports for Politico.Palin was asked during an interview with Fox News's "Fox & Friends" about

Wednesday's column by Maureen Dowd, eviscerating President Obama for his shabby treatment of former White House Counsel Greg Craig and supporter Caroline Kennedy, is getting favorable responses from his supporters in the blogosphere.Only a year after he had helped Barack

Josh Marshall argues that bad picks by Democratic governors in filling vacant seats make it harder than necessary to retain those seats.I was just looking at this run-down of recent polls by Tom Jensen at Public Policy Polling. The upshot

The BEA has revised its estimates for the third quarter's growth down to 2.8% from 3.5%. This is also a bit below the expected growth of 2.9% for the quarter. The main factors behind the downgrade: consumers didn't spend as

Nick Schultz points us to this interesting graphic on the private sector experience of presidential cabinets:The chart ""includes secretaries of State, Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, Interior, Labor, Transportation, Energy, and Housing & Urban Development, and excludes Postmaster General, Navy, War, Health,

Google looked like a monkey after its algorithms had an unfortunate result for searches for photos of the First Lady.For most of the past week, when someone typed "Michelle Obama" in the popular search engine Google, one of the first

I've canceled tonight's installment of of OTB Radio, our weekly BlogTalkRadio program.My co-host Dave Schuler is understandably unable to participate after the recent loss of his mother, who will be laid to rest Saturday, and I'm in no mood to

Our colleague Dave Schuler lost his mother Sunday. My sincere condolences.Dave eulogizes her in brief, moving fashion:I have lost my oldest friend, my first teacher, and my most inspirational life model. My mother has died at 88.One of my core

In discussing legal possibilities vs. tradition vis a vis the Senate filibuster rules, Matthew Yglesias pens an interesting legal scenario.After all, a lot of things are possible in our system. To the best of my understanding, nothing is stopping Rahm

Surely no matter whether we identify as Republicans, Democrats, or Independents, we can all agree with President Obama's statement regarding robotics.Now, the students from Oakton High School are going to be demonstrating the Cougar Cannon designed to scoop up and

Phil Carter, well known to longtime denizens of the blogosphere as the former proprietor of Intel Dump, has suddenly resigned as deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee policy. The NYT buries this news on A20:The Defense Department official in

Remember the bizarre case of Bill Sparkman, the census worker found hanging from a tree in Kentucky with the letters FED scrawled on his chest? Remember the media frenzy about crazy Southerners and their hatred of the federal government? At

So says the latest Quinnipiac poll. Headlines like that are a major part of why I really hope Sen. Chris Dodd gets shellacked next year. As his ethical troubles have mounted, it's gone from a minor, ir-regular irritant to an

Tyler Cowen dubs the paradox of choice — the idea that people become unhappy when given too many choices — "one of the most overrated and incorrectly cited results in the social sciences." He cites Tim Harford's recent piece in

Back when the stimulus bill was passed, I have to say that I was opposed to it. When the White House claimed it was working, I pretty much scoffed. So I have to admit that I was taken aback to

Last night, shortly after getting our 10 month old to sleep, I laughed at the opener to Esquire's "How to Entertain Kids of Any Age This Holiday Season" featurette.The premise:Suddenly, children are all over the house. Somehow, for a couple

The L.A. Times has a fascinating article about the difficulties in accounting for estimated costs in a troop surge in Afghanistan.The calculations so far have produced a sweeping range. The Pentagon publicly estimates it will cost $500,000 a year for

Steve Green: "If there really was a Party Of No, I would so join."Indeed.via Glenn Reynolds

Jonathan Last calls this NYT obit for Dennis Cole "the saddest thing you'll read today."To think that you can be one minute marrying one of Charlie's Angels and then a few years later dying alone in Ft. Lauderdale while doing