It seems to me that while acres of forest have been sacrificed to detailing the Undiebomber follies, the other terrorist attack during Christmas week–the suicide bomber who took out much of a CIA station at Forward Operating Base Chapman on the Af/Pak border–was a far more significant event. Turns out he was a double agent, [...]
There’s more and more talk that the House and Senate will bypass a formal conference committee entirely, and instead, work out the differences between their two versions of the health bill in the leaders’ offices, a process that would involve only a handful of key committee chairmen. That closed-door shortcut of the normal process has [...]
On New Year’s eve, at 6:53 a.m., Newark Mayor Cory Booker responded, via Twitter, to a complaint about snow removal. We are out now hitting the streets. RT @barbieblack88 @CoryBooker when are they going to start cleaning up this snow! Four minutes later, Ravie Rave, an Internet radio talk show host who is one of [...]
Yikes. As the Secret Service deals with the news that a third party crasher–in addition to the publicity-whoring couple who shall not be named–ended up at the White House state dinner in November, perhaps the security service might want to consider consulting with some professionals. Like whoever reconfigured the guest list checking procedures for the [...]
Peter Baker has a solid, timely piece about Obama and terrorism coming in the NY Times magazine–so timely that the magazine jumped its publication date by two weeks and posted the story on the Times’ website today. The piece is detailed, and excellent, in describing the similarities and differences between the Bush and Obama counter-terrorism [...]
Except he apparently didn’t know it. Over at the New Republic, Anthony Wright explains.
The Washington Post’s editorial page has been tacking right in recent years and so today’s editorial on Undiebomber, and the cynical Republican assault on the President, is noteworthy….especially this: With former vice president Richard B. Cheney in the lead, the [Republicans] have embarked on an ugly course to use the incident to inflict maximum political [...]
David Sanger and William Broad lay out the next stage of the Obama Administration’s Iran policy in the NY Times today and it seems pretty solid to me. The President gave Iran a year to comply with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which it is a signatory; and four months to formally agree to the [...]
I am shocked and saddened to learn today of the sudden death of Deborah Howell. She was a source of inspiration, having made her way up in this business at a time when the newsroom was hostile territory for women who didn’t want to spend their careers writing wedding announcements. Because of her, it was [...]
