A very interesting e-mail appeal from Nancy Pelosi for money. Dear Friend, Here’s what you and I can’t let happen. We can’t allow the tension and pressures of a spirited Presidential contest to spill over and harm hard-working Democratic candidates running to strengthen our Democratic majority in the House. I will do whatever it takes [...]
HRC’s campaign just circulated a memo calling attention to how much money Obama has received from oil and natural gas companies: According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Sen. Obama has received over $160,000 from the oil and gas companies. Two major bundlers for his campaign — George Kaiser and Robert Cavnar – are oil [...]
Justin takes a look at Obama’s economics speech — which emphasized “core regulatory principles” over concrete proposals — and scratches his chin about what he sees: The reality is that it’s incredibly hard for anybody, be they regulator or CEO, to stand in the way of a financial innovation that’s churning out big profits. The [...]
• “Stafford Smith advised Binyam that when he appeared before the military tribunal he should represent himself. “His words, not mine, were going to be published by the media,” Stafford Smith writes. Binyam understood. His military commission hearing transcript, as reported by Stafford Smith, reads like a script for a farce. First comes the matter [...]
Pop quiz: If someone narrated your life, what would his or her voice sound like? Like the hipster kid from those Apple computer ads? Like a spiky-haired designer on Project Runway? Like David Lee Roth or Cindy Lauper or Gene Hackman or Wilford Brimley? Is it high-pitched and caffeinated, or low and slow? Does it [...]
Friday Morning Update: This is a pretty comprehensive update from the Washington Post, although I have my doubts about the top of the story–Sadr City is a vast place and four stryker vehicles hardly represent a major assault. The really worrisome part about this is that the U.S. is getting sucked into a potentially massive [...]
