In the early hours of Wednesday morning, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked to define success in international global warming negotiations. “Well, look,” Gibbs said, as he braced himself through a patch of rough turbulence on Air Force One, which was at the moment crossing Europe on its way to Rome. “I think [...]
The geniuses over at the Commentary blog, taking a brief time out from their never-ending campaign to announce the Collapse of the House of Obama, have now locked onto the President’s support for the right of Muslim women to wear hejab (that is, a head scarf) and turned it into Obama support for the burqa, [...]
From our G8 Photo Essay:
A tricky question for those who are drafting the legislation.
Is it possible that the North Koreans launched a July 4 cyber attack on the US government? If so, what’s the appropriate retaliation? Should we turn the electricity in Pyongyang on and off a few times, if we can do it? The North Koreans are clearly in the midst of some sort of internal meltdown, [...]
My interview with the soon to be ex-Governor of Alaska at her in-laws’ place in Dillingham, Alaska.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is meeting with Finance Committee ranking member Charles Grassley and other key Republicans at 12:30 EDT. Time is running out against a self-imposed deadline to pass health care legislation by the August recess. Reid’s message, I am told, will be that Democrats are getting impatient with the mixed signals that [...]
Even before most alarm clocks had sounded in New York and Washington, President Obama had already driven in four motorcades, taken two helicopters rides, and flown on his plane from Russia to Italy. “My wife Michelle. So nice to see you. So good to see you,” Obama had said, upon greeting Italian President Giorgio Napolitano [...]
The ranks of the nation’s unemployed have dropped by one. As we had noted earlier in this space, at least one former Attorney General had been having trouble finding work in the legal profession. Now, the Austin American-Statesman tells us that Alberto Gonzales has landed a job teaching political science and recruiting minority students at [...]
