In the summer of 2004, the Bush White House asked its Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to add three sentences to his announcement of an elevated terror threat alert for key U.S. cities. According to his new book, The Test of Our Times, Ridge did as he was asked, adding the following lines to his [...]
The latest news coming out of Afghanistan is not good. There is likely to be a second round of voting in the presidential race, which will keep the government in flux and U.S. troops preoccupied for at least another month–and the results of any election will be questioned because of the semi-successful Taliban suppression of [...]
A few days old, but hey, I’ve been on vacation. Here’s an image from the White House Situation Room, via our White House Photo Blog:
TIME’s Elizabeth Dias chimes in with this post: With Ramadan’s new crescent moon poised to rise, President Obama extended Muslims his warmest wishes for a holy month of renewal–and his intent to renew America’s relationship with Muslims around the world. His media-savvy YouTube message indicates that real renewal requires listening both to foreign policy concerns [...]
Presidential Spokesman Robert Gibbs today tried to define “wee weed up,” the phrase Barack Obama employed on Thursday to describe the excited anxiety that Washington tends to experience over less-than crucial happenings. “Bedwetting is — would be probably the more consumer- friendly term for. . . ” Gibbs said before trailing off, sounding himself a [...]
Jon Stewart had on Betsy McCaughey last night. McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York, who made her career and reputation in 1993 by speaking out against President Clinton’s health reform effort with arguments that often ranged from slightly misleading to outright fiction. (See here for the Atlantic’s Jim Fallows on one of [...]
Charles Krauthammer has not been entirely unreasonable in the current health reform battle. A few weeks ago, he proposed his own plan: malpractice reform and a government health care tax credit to replace the current tax exclusion for health care benefits–in other words, he favors a single-payer system (the government would be the payer via [...]
On August 1, 2004, just days after the Democratic National Convention nominated presidential candidate John Kerry on a national security platform, the Bush Administration raised its terror threat level to “Code Orange,” or high, for certain cities with major financial institutions. In a press conference to announce the change, which stepped on the Kerry storyline [...]
Here are the top ten health reform ads of the summer.
