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The Columbia ServiceNation Candidate Forum
Columbia University announced in an email to students that it will hold a non-partisan forum on September 11th featuring John McCain and Barack Obama. The forum will be sponsored by the non-partisan group ServiceNation. The event will be moderated by...
Rick Warren's Cone of Silence (One Last Time)
Four final thoughts on the cone of silence: First, it’s unlikely there will be a resolution to this issue that pleases everyone. There was a systemic failure. Unless someone produces a real smoking gun, there isn’t going to be a final answer. S...
McCain's Time Outside the Cone of Silence
Silencegate continues. Rick Warren will appear on Larry King Live tonight at 9PM EST; I expect King will ask a number of questions about it. The possibility of McCain's breaching the “cone of silence” raises the question: If McCain did break hi...
Scrapping over Rick Warren's "Cone of Silence"
Mark's earlier concerns of a second-mover advantage in Rick Warren's Civil Forum are appearing in today's news cycle. Warren declared that since Obama's questions were identical to McCain's, McCain would be placed in a "cone of silence" for the first...
