Maine Senator Olympia Snowe’s idea of creating a public option as only a fallback if private insurance companies fail to produce genuine competition seems to be gaining currency at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue at the moment. Today’s Washington Post has new details on how a “trigger” would work:
Three journalists for the Associated Press present when grenade explosion took off the leg of a Marine, Cpl. Joshua “Bernie” Bernard, in Afghanistan on August 14, in the middle of the deadliest month in that country for U.S. forces since 2001. They wrote a story about it, and published a photo of it. Defense Secretary [...]
From our White House Photo Blog. Because, really, can we ever see enough puppy pictures?
Once again, Paul Slansky sums up the nuttiness of one week–Bachmann Bartiromo Overdrive, crazypants secession talk in Texas, return of “The Blob,” Cheney family tag team, “Animal House” in Kabul, it goes on and on– in his weekly index. What’s making you grateful that this week is finally over?
Joe Scarborough, David Frum and John Podhoretz (here) are speaking out against the proposed Republican school boycott next week. I’ve disagreed, vehemently, with Podhoretz and the neocons at Commentary in the past, but I will say this: they come to their beliefs honestly. They think hard about the positions they take, deal in some version [...]
In response to a torrent of criticism, originated and directed by Fox News’s Glenn Beck, White House adviser Van Jones has apologized for some of his past statements and distanced himself from a document he once signed. “In recent days some in the news media have reported on past statements I made before I joined [...]
