As previously blogged by this Conversationalist (me), there is a deal in the works between Hamas and the Israeli government to swap Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit for over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners held by the Israeli government.  Now, it appears that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) may be seeking to sabotage the deal: The reports allegedly [...]

Mark Schmitt, executive editor of The American Prospect magazine wrote a fascinating post about the history of the filibuster last week: Underlying that, of course, was the structural change that came with the realignment from a four-party system, in which each party had a liberal and conservative wing, to two ideological parties. (A center-left party [...]

I disagree with Daniel’s post about The Wall Street Journal possibly delisting from Google. He is right that for the Journal, this deal probably won’t have much of an effect on page views one way or another. Fine. The difference for them is that now they would have Bing paying them for doing absolutely nothing [...]

So there’s talk of Rupert Murdoch making The Wall Street Journal unavailable on Google search and only available on rival search engine Bing. The idea is that Microsoft (which owns rival search engine Bing) pays the Journal to take itself off of Google’s search engine. The Journal then earns revenue by getting more people to [...]

The New York Times reported today that a Hamas-held  Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, will most likely be traded for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners: JERUSALEM — Israel and the Islamist group Hamas appeared to be nearing a deal on Monday to exchange a captured Israeli soldier for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, including a popular leader, a [...]

The topic du jour today seems to be healthcare and with that comes, unsurprisingly, some bizarro stories that are more hysterics than actual substantive events. Take this one in The Hill which reports that Rep. Patrick Kennedy was banned from communion at a Catholic church because of his support for abortion rights: Rep. Patrick Kennedy [...]