Let me be precise here: Fox News peddles a fair amount of hateful crap. Some of it borders on sedition. Much of it is flat out untrue. But I don’t understand why the White House would give such poisonous helium balloons as Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity the opportunity for still greater spasms of self-inflation [...]
On Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden, who is traveling in Eastern Europe, sent out a warning to millions of Barack Obama’s supporters through the Democratic National Committee’s email list. We’ve got a fight on our hands. Powerful insurance companies are pulling out all the stops to defeat the President’s plan for health reform. They’re spending [...]
Michelle Obama proves she still has the moves in this photo from our White House Photo Blog:
Associated Press is reporting that Iran hasn’t accepted–nor has it rejected–the plan negotiated in Vienna to have its uranium enriched for medical use in France or Russia. The Iranians instead propose that they be allowed to purchase the enriched uranium. There are two ways to look at this reaction: as a haggle or a stall.
On the choice facing Republicans in Florida…and nationally. And here’s David Frum on the same phenomenon in New York.
There aren’t many Democrats that would be willing to take on their own White House on the sensitive topic of czars – especially since the mere mention of the word by virtually any elected official sends Fox News in paroxysms. Russ Feingold weighed in a couple of weeks ago. And today at 2:30pm, Senate Homeland [...]
Fred Kaplan has a piece about the excellent job John Kerry has done persuading Hamid Karzai to allow a runoff and, perhaps, some reform measures in Afghanistan. This reinforces the piece Jay Newton-Small did for Time earlier this year, about Kerry’s renewed sense of purpose as a Senator. Meanwhile, Joe Lieberman’s bill of unnecessary heresies [...]
Add another complication to the tangle of relations–with a happy face–that is the U.S.-Russian relationship. It does not concern nuclear weapons, Iran, missile defense, Saakashvili’s Georgia or even Vladamir Putin’s creepy penchant for baring his pecs. Rather the dispute centers around an alleged criminal, whom Russia authorities seem intent on protecting from prosecution. Viktor Bout, [...]
