The story is called “The City Where the Sirens Never Sleep.” It is about Detroit. It is written by Matt Labash of the Weekly Standard. Read it here.
…by Jeff Goldberg, via Andrew Sullivan: a tent hospital in Sderot to treat the Palestinian wounded.
Fred Kaplan has, as usual, a smart piece on Obama’s second-tier appointments at the Pentagon and State. I’d add a couple of observations: 1. I agree that it’s good news that people like Holbrooke and Ross are being successfully recruited to do the difficult negotiations to come–but I wonder about the special envoy set-up. This [...]
Here’s what he said to AP yesterday: Q You think that waterboarding, for example, was warranted in the three cases that it was used. Do you have any qualms about the reliability of that — of the information that comes out of a technique like that? THE VICE PRESIDENT: No, I don’t. I think [...]
It’s a curious oversight on the part of Obamaland, and maybe more than that. Jonathan Martin notes the absence of the outgoing DNC Chairman at yesterday’s news conference announcing Tim Kaine as Dean’s replacement: The obligatory praise did little to placate Dean loyalists, and the mention of Emanuel, who Dean famously clashed with when Democrats [...]
