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SHEFFIELD: Hacking of Palin's e-mail reveals how easy it is

Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008

As FBI agents close in on the computer hacker (said to be David Kernell, son of Democratic Tennessee state Rep. Mike Kernell) who broke into the private e-mail account of Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, one startling aspect of the case has emerged - just how easy it was to compromise.

SHEFFIELD: Candidates use Web for cheap, edgy ads

Friday, Sept. 5, 2008

In the American federalist system, states have become policy proving grounds, places where ideas can be tested and elevated to the national level if proven effective - "laboratories of democracy," as Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis once put it.

SHEFFIELD: Conservatives miss Wikipedia's threat

Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008

Wikipedia, the community-edited encyclopedia that anyone can revise, is one of the Web's biggest success stories. What you may not know is that it also has become an important player in the political world.

SHEFFIELD: Profanity greater on liberal blogs

Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008

Are liberals more profane than conservatives? Online, the answer seems to be yes. Profanity, those taboo words banned from the broadcast airwaves, is a feature of many people's daily lives. It's much less so in the establishment media world. TV and radio broadcasts are legally prohibited from using it, most newspapers (including this one) have traditionally refrained from its usage.

SHEFFIELD: Online, conservatives miss bigger point

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Besides coming to grips with the lukewarm presidential candidacy of Sen. John McCain, there are few questions roiling the online Right more than what the future holds.