From TIME’s Sophia Yan: Ripples of protesters, thousands of them of all ages, lined Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to the Capitol Saturday. Deafening chants could be heard, from “You lie, you lie!” echoing South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson’s outburst during President Obama’s Wednesday speech to plaintive cries of, “Enough, enough!” If Dems thought [...]
…everywhere, to everyone, it seems–to Iran, in the context of the P5+1 talks, and to North Korea, outside the context of the six party talks.
Paul Slansky’s take on the week that brought fame to Congressman Joe Wilson — and $450,000 to his opponent’s campaign treasury. What made your week special?
Over at Tuned In, our colleague Jim Poniewozik has a message for Glenn Beck.
It turns out that Iran’s letter to the P5+1 (the UN security council’s permanent members plus Germany) isn’t a flat stonewall of nuclear talks, but a gauzy invitation for negotiations about, well, almost anything…except Iran’s nucelar program. And while I’ve been very much in favor of such talks in the past, we are dealing with [...]
In advance of his new album, Jay-Z has been making the rounds. Earlier this week, in an appearance on New York City’s Hot 97, he described a phone call he had with Obama during the campaign, in which Obama evoked Michael Jordan and dissed the basketball team Jay-Z partially owns, the New Jersey Nets. Worth [...]
A simple question for this horrific anniversary: If we’ve had so much success picking off Al Qaeda leaders with our Predator drones (and we have), and if we’ve been able to locate elusive sociopaths like Baitullah Mehsud and today’s announced snatch of Muslim Khan by the Pakistanis…
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