The Hankster (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
INDEPENDENT VOTERS What Independents Want (By DAVID BROOKS, NY Times) Independents, who are the largest group in the electorate, don’t have any of this. They don’t have institutional affiliations. They don’t look to certain activist lobbies for guidance. There aren’t many commentators who come from an independent perspective. Election message: Voters want results (USA Today)...
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
To follow the 79 most informative Election Night Twitterers, check our our list here. Marc Ambinder (6:05 p.m.) The first round of exit polls come to us courtesy of my friends at CBS News . Please be sure to visit their website first! First things first: even in a year when the composition of the electorate is dramatically different than the 2008 presidential election, President Obama's approval rating...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
They may not have made the list, but they made the guest list. GQ editor Jim Nelson welcomed some of DC's official "Most Powerful" and some of DC's most powerful media types to 701 last night for good food, flowing wine and Orszag sightings. In attendance: the White House's Bill Burton , Jen Psaki , Ebs Burnough , CNN's Ed Henry , Suzanne Malveaux , Edie Emery , Megan Grant , ABC's Emily...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
BOSTON, MA, (MARKET WIRE) Imaginatik plc (AIM: IMTK), a provider of Collective Intelligence software and services, is announcing the appointment of Matthew Cooper as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board, replacing Howard Marshall who retires from the Board following three years with the Company. Marshall will join the Imaginatik Advisory Board, a body of senior industry individuals who informally advise...
FamousDC (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
Matthew Cooper is still feeling it almost 24 hours later. The Atlantic: Bono, Politician I saw U2 last night at FedEx field near Washington, D.C. You had to be awed by the spectacle of the show, the 360 degree video screen and stage set, dubbed the claw, the 90,000 fans singing along but it was a reminder [...] Related posts: Rahm Hearts Oysters Politico Hearts Twitter Famously Quoteworthy: Steele...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
Suspicious Package- WaPo 's Tom Toles , Christina Sevilla of the U.S. Trade Representative's office, Bloomberg's Tim Burger , U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Bryan Greene and LAT 's Josh Meyer - performed at the Danish Embassy Friday night, across the street from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's house (she no-showed). The event was in advance of the UN's Climate Change Conference...
22dropout.com (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
Former All Black utility backs, Matthew Cooper and Jon Preston, have applauded the latest test inside backs combination. Much of the buildup to yesterday’s team announcement concentrated on speculation that Stephen Donald would…
Wonkette (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
Poor Matthew Cooper! The former Time reporter and current Josh Marshall slave or Atlantic slave or whatever has made the mistake of comparing the atmosphere on Martha's Vineyard right now to that of New York City on 9/11. He will be apologizing on Twitter all day, so stop on by! ...
BigLee's Miniature Adventures (Free subscription) | 21/08/2009
I bought several books from the bring & buy stand at the To the Redoubt show in Eastborne last month. One of these was Panzer: The Armoured Force of the Third Reich by Matthew Cooper and James Lucas. The book discusses the grand tactical ideal or Armoured Idea as devised by Guderian and others in the pre-war years. The main conclusion of the book is that the German High Commands failure to grasp...
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 20/08/2009
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is unfazed by the sometimes vitriolic debate over health care this August, sharing the opinion of other commentators that it's healthy to hash our differences out in public, even if it sometimes involves shouting--that this, basically, is democracy in action. Our own Matthew Cooper said as much , as did FreedomWorks spokesman Adam Brandon ("This...
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
The Atlantic twitters. Boy, do we Twitter! @marcambinde r is me, Mattizcoop is Matthew Cooper, @goldberg3000 is Jeff Goldberg, @1bobcohn is Bob Cohn, @jamesgibney is James Gibney, @jbennet is James Bennet, @SageStossel is Sage Stossel, SStossel is Scott Stossel, Ckummer is Corby Kummer, Gcaw is Graeme Wood, Clemtan is Clement Tan, and RecessionRoadie is Cristina Davidson
BigLee's Miniature Adventures (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
I shot this bit of video of the replica V1 at the Muckleburgh Collection while away on holiday and was trying to remember where I'd seen another on display. There's an original V1 in the Imperial War Museum in London and another at Duxford. Both are originals rather than reproductions. I'm not sure if this V1 is a replica or not but it is displayed very effectively at Eden Camp in Yorkshire. I took...
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
The Atlantic twitters. Boy, do we Twitter! @marcambinde r is me, Mattizcoop is Matthew Cooper, @goldberg3000 is Jeff Goldberg, @1bobcohn is Bob Cohn, @jamesgibney is James Gibney, @jbennet is James Bennet, @SageStossel is Sage Stossel, SStossel is Scott Stossel, Ckummer is Corby Kummer, Gcaw is Graeme Wood, Clemtan is Clement Tan, and RecessionRoadie is Cristina Davidson
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
Matthew Cooper blogs a political eulogy: There's something comic and familiar, of course, about a Louisiana politician going to jail. We've come to expect colorful rogues in jumpsuit orange. There's something more tragic to the fall of William Jefferson. Maybe...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
Matthew Cooper imagines what Bill said to Kim Jong Il. Ackerman imagines Bill as a suicide bomber.
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