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After I mentioned in yesterday’s Al Franken story that both Senator Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd have been absent due to medical reasons – thus making the Dems’ majority more like 58 than 60 — I got a lot of questions about Byrd’s health. Byrd was hospitalized after a fall in his home the week [...]
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The flood is slowing–by a trickle. ADP, the paycheck company, reports an estimated 473,000 jobs were lost in the United States in June. That’s 35 percent less than the amount of lost jobs in March, when the bloodletting peaked, but only 2 percent less than the amount of lost jobs in May. Economists now estimate [...]
Michelle Obama has unwittingly caused a national French debate over working on Sundays. It seems the First Lady wanted to take Sasha and Malia shopping while there: the problem was virtually every store in Paris is closed on Sundays. There is a ban in France, a Catholic country, on working the day God rested. Embarrassed, [...]
A couple weeks back, I wrote about the turmoil in the office of the Inspector General for Amtrak. More details have since come out. The head of that office for 35 years, Fred Weiderhold, Jr., it turns out, retired just one day after a independent report he had commissioned was released, documenting a number of [...]
Todd Purdum wrote a very dishy story on Sarah Palin in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. But even more revealing of how dysfunctional campaigns really operate is Jonathan Martin’s account of what happened next. If John McCain’s team was like this on the campaign, it’s interesting to imagine what a McCain White House would [...]
