Ambinder reports that John Bolton will be speaking at this year’s Log Cabin Republican convention.
Lord, I was missing Tom Tancredo. Here he is, via Spencer Ackerman, grilling General Petraeus. Ay caramba!
These recently released videos of Hillary presiding over a Wal-Mart grand opening — along with Sam Walton himself — show a few things: Hillary becoming hammily excited (“OH HOW NEAT!” she exclaims at one point, as well as the less giddy but just as hyperbolic, “I am so proud of this company and all it [...]
Woe is me. I am set upon by harpies, from the center, the right and the Weh-right. The saddest of these is Lanny Davis’s act of Clintonphilia in the Wall Street Journal, which may set a land-speed record for disingenuousness. The subject again is the infamous Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Third paragraph: Clearly Mr. Obama does [...]
Amb. Ryan Crocker and Gen. David Petraeus won’t set goalposts for Iraq. They won’t say when troops can start coming home in large numbers. They won’t define clear conditions for withdrawal. As they have been saying for nearly two days now, they will know success when they come upon it. This is kind of like [...]
Creeping lame-duckism? Nancy Pelosi has just announced that she will call for a change in the rules tomorrow to prevent a vote on the Colombia trade deal that President Bush sent to the Hill yesterday–in violation, congressional leaders say, of a deal they had to negotiate some other issues first, including Trade Adjustment Assistance and [...]
• “One of them’s got a chocolate bar that’s been broken into pieces by its corporate owner, and the other’s got a jar of peanut butter, 60% of which has been scooped out and sold to increase the share price for Viacom shareholders. In the TV news business, we call that two once-great tastes that [...]
Last night, The Week magazine presented its “Opinion Awards,” which it likes to bill as the only prize in journalism for opinion writing. Except for the Pulitzer. The awards are, of course, also an occasion for a fancy dinner party and much elbow-rubbing and — because this is Washington — there is a panel. Last [...]
The lead story of today’s Washington Post: Federal employees used government credit cards to pay for lingerie, gambling, iPods, Internet dating services, and a $13,000 steak-and-liquor dinner, according to a new audit from the Government Accountability Office, which found widespread abuses in a purchasing program meant to improve bureaucratic efficiency.
