We here at Swampland generally like political sex scandals–the senator and his Aunt Judy, the presidential candidate and his videographer, the governor and his work socks. But so far we have been mum on the tangled tale of Peter Orszag, and maybe for good reason. He wasn’t married, or anything. And it appears that he [...]
Over at the Curious Capitalist, Justin Fox tells us: The long-awaited end of the Great American Job Destruction of 2008 and 2009 did not arrive in December, as some forecasters hoped it might, as the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported another 85,000-job decline in nonfarm payroll employment this morning. The BLS did revise November’s payroll [...]
All signs should be pointing up for the GOP. They are the out-party at a time of serious economic woes–85,000 more jobs were shed in December and 661,000 people, or about as many people as live in Baltimore, gave up looking for work. Polls show rising enthusiasm among conservative voters and falling enthusiasm among Democratic [...]
This statement was distributed Thursday by George Little, a spokesman for the Central Intelligence Agency. Before the Detroit incident, the CIA collected and shared information about Abdulmutallab with other agencies. The CIA has taken a close look at how we can do even more to support our government’s efforts to disrupt terrorist plots. On January [...]
The White House has posted two documents, one summarizing a preliminary investigation of the intel failures and another describing corrective actions that Obama has ordered. These documents can be read here. Obama’s full statement Thursday is posted after the jump.
Here’s a slightly belated posting of a story that came out this morning on time.com on what Chris Dodd and Byron Dorgan’s retirements could mean for Dems in 2010 and beyond. There’s the obvious silver lining for Democrats to Dodd stepping down: Richard Blumenthal has a much better shot at the seat. I’d say that [...]
On the otherwise very serious topic of the war on terror in Yemen: an inside-the-Beltway look at the Yemeni ambassador to the U.S.
As Karen noted earlier today, she and I have a story in this week’s magazine about how much states will be on the hook if and when federal health reform passes. The impetus for the story was, in part, the growing number of governors across the country publicly slamming the idea of expanding insurance coverage [...]
Alone in our nation’s capital last night, I decided to keep in touch with the culture by going to see Avatar in 3D. I hadn’t read much of the commentary about the movie, but the word of mouth was that it was visually spectacular–and yes, spectacular it was, especially in 3D (which has improved markedly [...]
