More than 100 million people use Facebook, but until recently, Aaron Sorkin was not one of them.

It’s not always that candidates for president or vice president have children who are serving in the military during wartime. But the 2008 election will be decidedly different.

The idea is to make fat-cat funders think twice before writing a check for attack ads against Democratic candidates and causes.

Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska since 2006, is John McCain’s choice for his vice-presidential running mate. The selection is considered a high-risk, but also high-reward gamble to woo conservatives, as well as female voters who may feel alienated by Barack Obama’s defeat of Hillary Clinton.

R. Hunter Biden’s work as a lobbyist and hedge fund principal has created some awkward moments for Joe Biden, just as the Democratic vice-presidential nominee is emphasizing his working-class origins and how he has tackled moneyed interests on behalf of ordinary Americans.

With all the talk of political dynasties passing the torch - or being shoved out of the way - little attention has been paid to another Democratic scion who shared the stage with Hillary Clinton last night. Her name is Cecile Richards.

Stuart R. Ross, the man who brought the Smurfs to America, would seem to be starring in his own made-for-TV production, but it’s hardly a cartoon.

In the two months since the man nicknamed “the bullet” took charge, John McCain’s campaign has grown harder-edged and more combative, relentlessly attacking Barack Obama’s perceived assets, including his promise to be a change agent.

Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons gave nearly $3 million to the American Issues Project so it can run a TV ad linking Barack Obama to 1960s anti-war radical William Ayers and the Weather Underground.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, defended her investment in T. Boone Pickens’ Clean Energy Fuels Corp. during an appearance Sunday on Meet the Press by saying she is investing in something she believes in.

People Magazine’s sexiest man of the year, Matt-Damon, is also the face of the ONE Campaign; a non-profit organization that raises public awareness about the global issues of hunger, poverty, and disease.

Both John McCain and Barack Obama portray themselves as agents of change who would clean up Washington by curbing the influence of powerful special interests. So why are they permitting those interests to pay for their weeklong political conventions?

While Bill Allen waits patiently to testify against Sen. Ted Stevens and others in ongoing corruption cases, the Alaska businessman and his children have set up several new companies that deal in energy, construction, real estate, tourism and aviation.

Barack Obama obviously didn’t choose Joe Biden as his running mate to gain electoral votes. Delaware has just three.

Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, former CEO of American International Group, will have his day in court next month to answer shareholder charges that he and other former company officials owe them nearly $1 billion.

In an effort to jazz up its image, Microsoft Corp. is hiring Jerry Seinfeld, the 54-year-old comedian whose last starring role ended 10 years ago.

When The New York Times reported last week on a new attack book about Barack Obama, it cited a critique by Media Matters for America, the liberal watchdog group. Which is just the way David Brock envisioned it would work when he founded the group in 2004, with funding from liberal philanthropists.

In an effort to highlight some of Barack Obama’s more controversial associations, the Republican National Committee has created a Facebook spoof site called BarackBook.com.

Political analyst Rachel Maddow has gotten her own show, replacing Dan Abrams in the MSNBC lineup.

A new video from Brave New Films and The Real McCain website postulates that John McCain doesn’t care about the mortgage crisis.