The Boston Globe has a jaw-dropping story about Romney’s lawn care issues. Not crabgrass, but illegal immigrants. Specifically, the same illegal immigrants that were working for him last year. This is only a jaw-dropping story, of course, because of Romney’s own heated rhetoric on the issue. And, I gotta say, for a guy who is [...]
Why we love C-SPAN: As Mitt Romney prepares to give his much-anticipated speech on religion, it’s worth spending 46 minutes watching this clip of JFK’s famous September 1960 appearance before the Houston Ministerial Association. The speech itself is eloquent and powerful, but more remarkable is the brutal question-and-answer session that follows. The ministers were, to [...]
Last night, John McCain’s response to a student’s question about Darfur drew perhaps the evening’s loudest round of applause (except for the standing ovation he got at the end). He reiterated — as he’s done before — that America must do something: in 2006 he and Bob Dole suggested that U.S. use its intelligence assets [...]
Yesterday Pew released its “Democratic Primary Preview” polls, done in association with the AP, from Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina (giving Clinton a slight lead in the first and big leads in the other two). Today comes the “Republican Primary Preview”, with numbers from the same three states testing the strength of the GOP [...]
Just got off a Joe Biden conference call and the Senator made this absolutely wonderful point: If the President was told that there was new intelligence about Iran’s nuclear program last August and he didn’t ask what that intelligence was, as Bush claimed this morning, “If that’s true then this is…the most incompetent President in [...]
Podhoretz the Elder, a man whose world view has become so twisted that he’s disappointed we might not have to bomb Iran now offers this: But I entertain an even darker suspicion. It is that the intelligence community, which has for some years now been leaking material calculated to undermine George W. Bush, is doing [...]
Candidates (and reporters) often throw around numbers without telling people where they come from. Fifteen million is one you may be hearing a lot lately in the presidential campaign. It’s the estimate Hillary Clinton uses for how many people would still lack coverage under Barack Obama’s health care plan, which–unlike hers and John Edwards’–does not [...]
