Here’s my take from the first day – which was mostly meet and greet. Later in the evening former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo delivered a predictable speech on immigration reform and the health care bill – an updated version of his 2008 stump speeches during his short-lived presidential campaign — as the audience munched on [...]
There has been much talk on the interwebbing of late about the amateur absurdity of the Carly Fiorina Demon Sheep ad. (I chimed in myself on Wednesday, suggesting that people watch it while playing Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon for full effect.) But the ad was created, in fact, by one of the most [...]
I realize we could probably run a whole “Whatever Happened To…?” series. But here’s my entry for today. While reading the Washington Post’s story on the Pentagon and morning-after pills, I noticed that it placed the Plan B decision alongside other pro-abortion rights policy moves, including “[an announcement]…rescinding a federal regulation that would have expanded [...]
Karen–Over the past year, I’ve been trying to keep up with a lot of different issues, in various fields, particularly foreign policy and national security. There are days when I don’t read everything posted on Swampland as faithfully as I should, sometimes entire weeks, especially when I’m concentrating on other issues or when I’m overseas. [...]
Just days after taking office a little over a year ago, Obama checked off an item that had long been on the pro-choice community’s to-do list when he repealed the so-called Mexico City policy prohibiting foreign family planning groups from receiving U.S. funds if they provided abortions or even referred patients for abortions. On Thursday, [...]
Welcome, Joe. We’ve been here for a while. But you can now join Ed Rendell and Doris Kearns Goodwin. And, oh, yeah, … me. It started all the way back …here.
In what will be one of the biggest thematic swings in my reporting career, a week after getting back from Haiti I’m heading to Nashville, Tennessee to cover the first ever National Tea Party convention. As with any kind of grassroots movement, holding a national convention is somewhat of an oxymoron. Before dispatching me, my [...]
Jim Fallows has been writing some fascinating stuff about the Republicans on his Atlantic blog–and I’d like to highlight, and comment on, two of his posts this week. First, there was this on the impossibility of bipartisanship–which led me to regret a missed opportunity I had when fencing with Bill O’Reilly earlier this week. O’Reilly [...]
