Planes have returned to British skies starting at 10pm GMT tonight (5pm ET) as the United Kingdom allowed a phased reboot of its airports. A quote from the delightfully-named Transportation Minister Lord Andrew Adonis: “It is essential that we guarantee to the travelling public that the airlines are safe and that planes can safely fly.” I do [...]
A flashpoint in a partisan legislative battle. Check. Check. A favorite GOP talking point used to reduce a massive piece of legislation into two, scary-sounding words. (“permanent bailout” and “government takeover”) Check. Check. Relatively insignificant in the grand scheme of reform. Check. Check. The public option was far from a “government takeover.” Only 3 or [...]
Marc Ambinder has done the interwebbing a great service by profiling one of its unsung heroes, the anonymous Twitter presence and Swampland hall-of-famer @pourmecoffee. He is, it turns out, a 45-year-old guy who works in the recruiting business, and does not want his name in the tubes. Most importantly, before he became Twitfamous, he started [...]
The labor unions and the political left have made Blanche Lincoln, a centrist Democrat from Arkansas, their top primary target. The rhetoric supporting her opponent, Bill Halter, has come fast and fierce. On April 13, Moveon.org sent out an email that read like this: Imagine you’re a giant Wall Street bank. Life is good. For [...]
One more advantage to being a doctor AND a political candidate? If someone in the audience at a debate needs medical attention, you’re close at hand. (h/t Ben Smith) From the AP: EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Former Governor John Kitzhaber wants his old job back, but he returned to his days as an emergency room [...]
As my twitter followers know, I’ve been marooned in London due to volcanic ash. It’s been a real hardship, I can tell you. Glorious spring is bursting in St. James Park where blue herons and swans will virtually eat bread out of your hand. There’s a great Chris Ofili exhibit – the guy whose cow elephant [...]
President Obama flew to California this afternoon for two fundraisers, one with about 1,400 donors at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, and one at the Museum of Natural History, where the ticket price is $35,200 per couple. There was a disturbance at the first event, according to a pool report at the scene [...]
