The Talk of the TownComment, the Financial Page, and more stories from The New Yorker.<img src="http://feeds.newyorker.com/rss_views/talk.gif">Lizzie Widdicombe: Acting out at the Republican Convention.- September 5, 2008 Last week, in St. Paul, a band of antiwar protesters outside the Xcel Center confronted a group of stiff-looking guys in business suits as they tried to make their way into the Convention. There were chants of &8220;Shame! Shame!&8221; and a little pushing. Eventually, a flying V of mounted&160;.&160;.&160;.http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/09/15/080915ta_talk_widdicombe Hendrik Hertzberg on the big talkers- September 5, 2008 A couple of weeks before August 28th--the night that Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President, in a Denver football stadium--Stuart Shepard, the digital-media director of the lobbying arm of Focus on the Family, one of the most powerful organizations on the religious right, posed a&160;.&160;.&160;.http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/09/15/080915taco_talk_hertzberg Raffi Khatchadourian: The New York peanut gallery.- September 5, 2008 The Republican Party in New York City is not unlike a species of tropical bird, in that it has evolved in unusual ways, will most likely never be dominant, and has always held a tenuous status in the political ecology of the five boroughs. During the Republican Convention, last week&160;.&160;.&160;.http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/09/15/080915ta_talk_khatchadourian |