Washington Post blogger and left-wing Journo-List founder Ezra Klein made a curious admission on MSNBC today:

Such an old document is impossible to understand? Forgetting the obvious slams that could be made at young Mr. Klein with regard to his youthful ignorance of any bit of important American culture that predates ‘N Sync, I’d instead like to thank Ezra for providing evidence of one of the basic, principled differences between the right and the left: Conservatives still look to our country’s founding documents to guide their political and legislative agendas and the left just does what they want and then tries to force it through because working within the confines of the Constitution is just “too hard.”
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The media is now dependent on a few basic food groups, which are keeping it on life support as readers migrate to the Internet and sites like this one for news, informed commentary, provocative questions, some laughs, and a shared sense of community.

One of the hoariest questions in the newsman’s notebook involves the Horse Race.  No sooner is one presidential election over than the restless, ADDled MSM has to turn its attention to the next big thing and ask: “Are you going to run for President” while the current occupant’s name is still being stenciled on the glass door of his office or painted on his parking spot:

The latest example of idle media speculation comes now with The Question being posed to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, whose tenure has been dogged by controversy over various infelicitous remarks, but who has also been remarkably successful in planting Republican flags in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts.

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