Along the way to a scurrilous conclusion about the President, Marty Peretz of the New Republic makes a good point: Israel should have been mentioned among those countries that have made extraordinary efforts to help in Haiti. Peretz’s notion that Israel was purposefully left off the list because there was no equivalent Arab assistance to [...]
In December of 2007, ABC News’ Brian Ross came out with big scoop: A “leader of the CIA team that captured the first major Al Qaeda figure, Abu Zubaydah,” appeared on camera to announce that the waterboarding of Zubaydah had worked. The story was quickly picked up by conservative pundits and other reporters, adding what [...]
We are on the brink of interesting times in Iran. The 40th day after the death of Ayatollah Montazeri–a day of public mourning–approaches with the promise of the same sort of street demonstrations that attended his funeral and the holiday of Ashurah. February also marks the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution and, in a change [...]
Democrats are still smarting from Scott Brown’s upset victory in Massachusetts last week. Health reform seemed inevitable and then, suddenly, it wasn’t. As Karen pointed out, Democratic lawmakers are still searching for a path forward that might include reconciliation. They may succeed, but certainly not because the American people got on board with their plans. [...]
After looking at all their other options–drafting a smaller health care bill, or passing the most popular parts piecemeal–Democratic leaders in the House and Senate have come down to the realization that they’ve got one play left on health care: Get the House to pass the Senate bill, with the assurance of a set of [...]
UPDATE: O’Keefe announced on January 29 that he was not trying to wiretap the phones, just test them. See his statement here. Remember James O’Keefe, the skinny white kid, who dressed as a cartoon pimp and exposed ACORN as a mess of an organization, rocketing himself to Fox News fame? Well he was just arrested [...]
Really. According to Public Policy Polling, via Taegan Goddard: Americans do not trust the major tv news operations in the country- except for Fox News. Our newest survey looking at perceptions of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News finds Fox as the only one that more people say they trust than [...]
I agree with much of what Michael Scherer has written below–but I still think Ezra Klein has made the crucial point here: if you call a spending freeze and you can’t cut the crap programs, you have to cut the good ones or you seem doubly weak: unable to cut the lousy stuff and unable [...]
