CPAC

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference launched today in Washington DC. I’ll be heading up to the Marriot Wardman in Woodley Park shortly to check out some of the afternoon festivities. But I caught Marco Rubio – probably the most anticipated speaker of the three-day event — on C-SPAN this morning. The former speaker of [...]

Alan Simpson vs. The Deficit. Again.

Back in the days when I first arrived in Washington, Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming was one of my favorite people to seek out. That was pretty much the case with just about every other reporter in town, too. Simpson was always good for a salty quote; more importantly, he had a way of looking [...]

Morning Must Reads

–One of the few areas of comity and cooperation between the parties during the Obama administration has been education policy.  The Washington Post reports this morning that Democrats and Republicans in the House are taking a bipartisan stab at rewriting No Child Left Behind. –It looks like the White House may have a deal on [...]

President Obama To Meet Dalai Lama, Test Limits Of Symbolism

At 11:15 this morning, two Nobel Peace Prize winners will meet privately in a room that is best known as the place where President Franklin Roosevelt planned World War II. This fact likely has little symbolic value, but given that the event in question–a long-awaited, once-delayed meeting between President Obama and the Dalai Lama–is all [...]

FactCheck.org: Cheney v. Biden

In their dueling Sunday show appearances, FactCheck.org says, neither Veep colored entirely inside the lines. It’s worth reading their entire report, but here are some of the highlights:

Evening Miscellany

–Tech President charts the origin of that jobs graphic. –A politician may finally be allowed to use John Mellencamp songs at rallies: John Mellencamp. –It’s impersonation day; the NRCC channels Nancy Pelosi in a fundraising e-mail and Charlie Crist ghostwrites a CPAC address for Marco Rubio. –Bush 43 asks, “Who the [heck] is Marco Rubio?”

Marc Thiessen, The Catholic View Of Waterboarding And The Validity Of A Victim’s Perspective

Andrew Sullivan has a rather extensive refutation of former Bush speechwriter (and new Washington Post hire) Marc Thiessen’s argument that the physical and psychological abuse inflicted on terror detainees by the Bush Administration were “carried out in a moral way” compatible with the Magisterium of the Catholic Church. It is worth reading Sullivan’s piece in [...]

Set Your DVR

Michelle Obama to appear on Mike Huckabee’s show this weekend on Fox. Both of them, of course, are waging public campaigns against obesity. Will they also find time to discuss Huckabee’s recent declaration that he was not “abandoning Jesus” by inviting Obama Girl on the show?

We Want Reform, So Long As It’s Free or Really, Really Cheap

I could have written any number of headlines about a health care poll released this week by Zogby International and the University of Texas Health Science Center. Like most of the polls done in the past year related to health care, there are an infinite number of story lines that could be pulled out to [...]

Housing Starts Up

Good news? Not necessarily, our Curious Capitalist colleague Barbara Kiviat tells us.