As Karen indicated, Obama spoke this morning about swine flu and other topics in a speech to the National Academy of Sciences (full text of his remarks after the jump). The President used the occasion to reiterate his intention–first declared in his inaugural address–to “restore science to its rightful place.” I generally agree with the [...]
I keep hoping Paul Krugman is wrong about the need to nationalize the big banks–the government’s proper role is to regulate banks, not make profit-and-loss decisions–but he’s certainly right about the paper-profit Ponzi game that the big bankers insist on playing–and the toxic notion that they should be rewarded with obscene salaries for their ability [...]
Not if the Obama White House can help it. It’s worth pausing a moment to recall the political history of this ailment, which is not pretty.
This post isn’t about politics or swine flu or TARP funds or torture–just old-fashioned hometown pride. Right now the most-read article on Time.com is about a Michigan high school senior who notched perfect scores on the SAT, ACT, and PSAT. I’ve been focusing on more depressing education news in my home state recently, so I [...]
Mark Steyn, the British conservative who seems to play at thinking rather than going through the actual work of thought, is all upset about the deteriorating situation in Pakistan. Well, yeah. Pakistan, neglected for eight years by a mortally hoodwinked Bush Administration, is a mess. The entire North West Frontier Province now seems ready to [...]
The bloggerati is just amazing sometimes. The comments of one admirer of Jim Jones in my 100 days piece has now telescoped into Jones in Trouble! The hilariously inaccurate Michael Goldfarb has now ginned up a conspiracy and a confrontation involving Richard Holbrooke and Doug Lute. So let’s set things straight: As far as I know, [...]
But we still have Minnesota (171 days after the election and counting), where the Supreme Court has announced it will not take up Norm Coleman’s appeal until June 1.
After more than three weeks of recounts and confusion, Republican Jim Tedisco has conceded the special election for the NY-20 seat, giving Democrats a 255-178 majority in Congress and the all-powerful Murphy Caucus a fourth member.
In today’s installment, brought to us by the C-SPAN Video Library, we discover that people from Tennessee don’t necessarily like each other: UPDATE: It turns out that the Congresswoman and the former Vice President had an opportunity to continue their conversation. A source tells Swampland that when Gore got on his commercial flight home to [...]
I have minimal high regard for the members of Congress’s Appropriations Committees. They tend to be mortal porkers, whose first priority is stuffing their home districts with federal projects. Any attempts by Appropriators to go high-minded about matters of policy should be taken lightly–especially when it concerns the military: these are the clowns who’ll try [...]
