The White House has released a new website, the “Reform Reality Check,” the latest “fact-check” sites, aimed at debunking some of the more egregious characterizations of the still-amorphous health care reform effort. It is a signal that the Obama Administration is settling in for a long slog against its conservative critics, a fight not just [...]
The first sentences in her various obituaries inevitably refer to Anne Wexler as “an influential power broker” or a “powerful lobbyist,” which I suppose sends signals of a certain sort into the blogosphere. But I never thought of Anne that way, even though she was one of the more powerful women in Washington. She was a mentor, [...]
A week ago, Lloyd Doggett, a Democratic congressman from Austin, Tex., became an instant YouTube sensation when his “office hours” at a South Austin grocery store turned into a mob scene. It was one of the first indicators of what a lot of his colleagues would see in their own districts over this very rocky [...]
Tweeps weigh in* on Sarah Palin’s scary, scary Facebook post: And: *Find them here.
I had to do some administrative catch-up work Friday afternoon in my office, which allowed me to flip back and forth between MSNBC and Fox News as an ambient distraction. They were, let me say, quite awful to watch. Both stations, stuck by no fault of their own in the summer no-news slide, have become [...]
Birthers! Health care riots! Manson redux! If it’s Friday, it’s once again time to learn what Paul Slansky took away from this week. What got your attention?
Our colleague Massimo Calabresi knows a lot about the risks a reporter must take to uncover the truth in an international danger zone. From 1995 to 1999, Massimo covered wars in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo for TIME. He was once detained in Serb-held Bosnia while investigating mass graves there as part of a reporting project [...]
Never mind the creepy Kenyan guy trying to marry daughter Chelsea, the Secretary of State has some moves. (At 25 sec.)
