It seems the Iranians are walking back their previous announcement about nuclear talks.
Yesterday, I wrote a piece about Tom Daschle, who went on Meet The Press to talk about the need to defeat the insurance industry without disclosing that he was working for the insurance industry. Indeed, Daschle is not the only prominent proponent of health care reform with less-than-obvious industry ties. Howard Dean, the former head [...]
Les Gelb raises some important points about the Administration’s plan to welcome Georgian troops as part of the coalition forces in Afghanistan–and the mixed signals the Administration has been sending the Russians.
You knew it was coming. Before we continue, a claim: I speak with absolutely no authority on Jesus, or his views, but I would bet a few days in purgatory that if Jesus were alive today, he would tell his followers not to watch any more cable news in August. Just going with my gut [...]
The debate over health care reform remains surreal. We are now focused on President Obama’s (sort of) unchanged position on the public option and the late-blooming possibility of health care co-ops as a replacement for said option. This is a foolish diversion from the actual work of health care reform–not as foolish as the Republican [...]
If there was an award for Best Use Of A Blog To Demonstrate The Political Mess Of Health Care Reform With Crafty Gen X Childhood Story Book Device, it would go to Marc Ambinder for this post here.
News this morning from the always excellent Laura Rozen of Foreign Policy magazine that Iran has announced that it’s willing to open discussions on its nuclear program without preconditions. This may be good news, or maybe not. Rozen quotes Trita Parsi about the prospects: Parsi said while the Iranian response is in some ways predictable, [...]
We love to give the High Sheriffs grief around here. (Speaking of which — hey, what happened to the paragraph breaks in the comments section?) But they do create some wonderful things for all of us. The latest is a player and archive that compiles the work of our talented video team, Craig Duff, Vannessa [...]
Both Joe and Karen weighed in on this earlier today, but I thought I would just add my voice to the choir saying I don’t quite understand what the big deal was Sunday over the “public 0ption” statements by administration officials–beyond the press needing a Monday story in the middle of summer. As Karen wrote, [...]
Jenny Sanford has opted to explain herself, her husband’s affair and her plans for the future to Vogue, the women’s fashion magazine, for which she poses in a cottony white one-piece, with a matching skinny belt and dangling straw hat. So what say she of her husband’s drifting? The only explanation that makes sense to [...]
