When I go to political events, I generally like to talk to people who attend them. You learn a lot that way. Not today. I arrived at the President’s health care speech at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pa., about 45 minutes early, hoping I might chat with some of the Pennsylvanians who were here. No [...]
On his last day in office Rep. Eric Massa seems to have snapped awake from the shellshock of the Ethics Committee investigation into his alleged inappropriate language around a young male staffer which Politico is reporting was sexual harassment. Gone is the contrite politician who said in an open letter Friday on his website, “I [...]
From our White House Photo Blog:
While some forces in the U.S. government, neoconservatives mostly, were touting Ahmed Chalabi as the great Iraqi Hope during the years before the Iraq war, the C.I.A. favorite seemed to be Iyad Allawi–a secular Shi’ite, former Baathist, whom Saddam tried to have assassinated (with an axe). And while Chalabi has emerged as Tehran’s man in [...]
So as long as I’m on this kick of inexpertly applying economic theory to Washington, let’s try this one on for size: Does Moore’s Law apply to congressional scandals? This, as you may recall, was the 1965 observation of Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that the number of transistors you could fit on a chip doubles [...]
One of the best songs on Jay-Z’s latest album, Blueprint 3, runs like this: Uhh, I don’t know why they worry ’bout my pockets Meanwhile I had Oprah chillin in the projects Had her out in Bed-Stuy, chillin on the steps Drinkin quarter waters, I gotta be the best M.J. at Summer Jam, Obama on [...]
