Time.com gives us a glimpse of the nightmare. Here are a few places where you can give money to help.
The excellent Dsvid Leonhardt has an important column today in the Times about the Obama Administration’s failure to name a Medicare director. I can cite many other such vacancies throughout the Administration, mostly attributable to the perverse scrupulousness of the confirmation process…which, in turn, is mostly attributable to my colleagues in the media–and the assorted [...]
The New York Times has a precious–and painful–interview with Harold Ford, Jr., Tennessee’s favorite New York Senate aspirant. Some highlights: Q. Have you been to Staten Island? A. I landed there in the helicopter, so I can say yes. Oof. Q. Let’s talk about abortion. A. I want more jobs in New York….. Q. And [...]
In a terrific piece of reporting, National Journal’s Peter Stone has revealed that even as the health insurance industry was publicly supporting the Obama Administration’s drive for health care reform last summer, it was secretly funding ads against it during that crucial period:
It’s been said before, but let me say it again: Fox News creator Roger Ailes is a genius. His peers in the executive suites of rival networks, newspapers and media conglomerates still hire talent for their abilities. Ailes knows you can also hire talent for who they anger, who they unite and what they represent. [...]
First thing to say is that Haiti is not a country known for it’s earthquake preparedness. Second thing is early reports are bad. A collapsed hospital, with people screaming inside. A separate three-story building collapsed. The White House is trying to figure out what the damage, after President Obama was told about the quake at [...]
This is one for the spy novels…in fact, David Ignatius’ most recent offering, The Increment, had a very similar situation: An Iranian nuclear physicist is killed. The Iranians blame the Great Satan, of course, but then we learn: Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, 50, was described by colleagues as a respected Tehran University nuclear physicist. Reformist websites and [...]
This is the playbook: Democrats go populist (drug companies, Wall Street, the rich) while Republicans rail against the “machine.” The latest ads from Massachusetts: Scott Brown’s response to Martha Coakley after the jump.
I was hoping to go down to Nashville to cover the Tea Party Convention there next month–yes, yes, in part to hang out with a few of my music buddies–but it seems the Real Americans aren’t interested in having the press report on their serious, no doubt, tribulations. I mean, what would Glenn Beck make [...]
As pundits turn themselves inside-out over Harry Reid’s inartful comments about Barack Obama, yesterday’s release of another batch of Nixon papers gives us a little reminder of what truly racial politics looked like at a point in our not-so-distant history:
