Mike Allen highlights this exchange from Barack Obama’s interview with Barbara Walters that will be broadcast tonight: WALTERS: How are you going to get along without your BlackBerry? OBAMA: (Laughs). This is a problem. … One of the things that I’m going to have to work through is how to break through the isolation and [...]
Arguments against gay marriage tend to fall into three broad categories: it is a threat to tradition (the idea is historically not sanctioned; the bible does not approve); it is a threat to children (kids will learn about homosexuality in school, confuse gender roles, or even become gay themselves); and it is a threat to [...]
From the Washington Post, a reminder that that Bush Administration is not over: Last week, the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs sent an e-mail to mayors reminding them that time was running out if they wanted to comment on the proposal the administration issued in July, which laid out how the government might curb [...]
I recently spoke to Fred Davis III, the advertising mastermind behind John McCain’s presidential run. Looking back, he described a campaign of missed opportunities. “I made a list once, which no one will ever see, of all the reasons that my hands were tied on this campaign,” he told me. “And I’ve never had a [...]
He will stay on as Secretary of Defense for at least the first year of the Obama Administration, say Martha Raddatz and Jake Tapper at ABC.
Over the years that I have been in Washington, many of the finest, most sophisticated and most dogged journalists I have known have been reporters in small newspaper bureaus, who have seen it as their mission to make sure that the politicians elected to represent their readers back home stay honest. This story by Jennifer [...]
After a decade of using Bank of America travel charge cards, the Pentagon has decided to go with another bank.
Ann Coulter has a new book, “exposing” liberal media bias. She recently broke her jaw, though–a fitting symbol for the end of the Fox News regency–and won’t be able to talk about it. Perhaps she’ll take advantage of the opportunity to watch and learn. (One imagines that the televisions in the White House, locked onto Fox [...]
It’s great to get one–and a real bummer not to make the cut.: In the pen next to the two turkeys that will be driven to President Bush next week are nearly a dozen alternates, who will be being processed at about the same time the president receives his Thanksgiving turkey from the Hills. While [...]
Justin’s take. UPDATE: And TNR’s Noam Scheiber tells us why Tim Geithner and Larry Summers may be a match made in policy-wonk heaven.: But, beyond the pairing of person and job, it’s the way these guys complement one another that’s really key here. Geithner is the rare bureaucrat with the smarts and the self-confidence to [...]
