This is insane. The guys at Conservapedia (aka, “the trustworthy encyclopedia”) have decided to retranslate the Bible in what they’re calling the Conservative Bible Project, because “liberal bias has become the single biggest distortion in modern Bible translations.” And you thought liberal bias was limited to the evil mainstream media. Apparently the early Church fathers [...]
One of the more popular rumors in Iran when I visited last June was that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is Jewish. Now the Telegraph newspaper in London has gone public with the story. Apparently, he comes from a line of weavers–yes, tallit-weavers–who changed their names recently, to prosper in the Islamic Republic. Indeed, Ahmadinejad’s name, Ahmadi-Nejad, literally [...]
Once again, Paul Slansky catches what the rest of us missed this week. Swampland commenters, what made your week?
Or so the former Senate Republican Leader, a surgeon who has written a new book on health care, told me a few minutes ago in an interview. Were he still in the Senate, “I would end up voting for it,” he said. “As leader, I would take heat for it. … That’s what leadership is [...]
There will be a fair bit of second-guessing and recriminations to come, now that the IOC has bounced Chicago in the first-round. One question is whether this does anything to tarnish Valerie Jarrett’s unique role as Obama’s wise voice of counsel. Jarrett’s role in Chicago’s Olympic bid pre-dated her arrival at the White House, but [...]
It is possible that the defeat of Chicago at the International Olympic Committee, a stunning, first-round defeat, will be good for the president over the long haul. His loyalties to his hometown are unquestioned, but the prospect of Olympic building scandals, of friends and fundraisers benefiting form the Olympic spending, and the virtually inevitable over-budget [...]
The Senate Finance Committee’s rejection of two public option amendments has set off a flurry of other proposals that could upend the reformed health care system imagined in the Chairman Max Baucus’s original bill. Earlier today, Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell introduced an amendment that would empower states to set up their own insurance pools of [...]
Can John Ensign survive this story in the New York Times? The headline sticks to the boilerplate: Senator’s Aid After Affair Raises Flags Over Ethics But the article has lots of new, dishy details, including this passage:
President Obama issued an executive order this afternoon, prohibiting government employees from texting and emailing while driving government vehicles or while driving on government business or while driving and using electronic devices purchased by the government. The idea is that the federal government should set a good example to encourage everyone else refrain from driving [...]
