UPDATED BELOW: With a White House fact check of the apparent Alito fact check. Late last night, I wrote about Justice Alito’s apparent fact check of President Obama’s speech. During Obama’s description of the Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United decision, Alito shook his and appeared to mouth the words “not true.” This morning, it appears that [...]
In its never-ending crusade to change the subject when the President gets something right, the Drudge Report has a banner headline: What is she up to? Hillary Skips State of the Union, which is linked to this decidedly innocuous story. The fact is, the Afghanistan conference has been planned for at least a month–and is [...]
The President last night did not spell out a tactical way forward for his struggling health reform initiative, but he did make the case for a comprehensive bill. And I was struck by his frank admission that the process of getting there has turned off the American people: Still, this is a complex issue, and [...]
It was a terrific performance. He almost seemed to be having fun up there; he delivered the speech in a free, almost informal manner. It was easily digestible, user-friendly…but it was also a fighting speech. Certainly, he stuck the needle time and again into the hides of the recalcitrant elephants in the room. It started [...]
The following excerpts of Obama’s speech tonight were released by the White House. (Jon Ward over at the Daily Caller has excerpts from Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s response.)
For much of my first week in Haiti I traveled with Life Magazine photographer Keith Marlowe. We met through TIME/Life folks in Miami and probably somewhat foolhardily drove nine hours from Santo Domingo into the unknown that was Port-au-Prince less than 72-hours after the devastating 7.0 earthquake. He has today a gallery up of his [...]
Pop quiz: Name a candidate who has run for federal office in the last half century who did not promise voters either a tax cut or more government funding for services. (To make it harder: Name a winning candidate.) I can’t think of one, because everyone I have ever covered or read about promises either [...]
