From the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in a sexting case earlier today (via the NYT): Chief Justice Roberts warned against devising a legal rule that “would require people basically to have two of these things with them, two of whatever they are — the text messager or the BlackBerrys or whatever.” Since when did Supreme [...]
At the start of today’s press briefing, Robert Gibbs did his best to tamp down suggestions that the SEC’s case against Goldman Sachs was linked to the Obama Administration’s ongoing push for financial regulatory reform. “The SEC doesn’t notify the White House of its enforcement actions and certainly didn’t do so in this case,” Gibbs [...]
Michael and I have both written before about Mitt Romney’s health care quandary. He was the architect of the Massachusetts reform plan that closely resembles the new national plan that just became law. Yet, he’s also a presumed candidate for president in 2012 and would be vying for the nomination of a party that has [...]
The economy is getting better. This is a fact. Just 25 percent of the American people believe that the economy is getting better. This is also a fact. Here’s where it gets complicated: These two facts are not contradictory. One can have a recovering economy that fails, at least initially, to bring meaningful improvement to [...]
It’s interesting that neoconservative wingnuts like Bill Kristol have now taken the flying leap and are publicly supporting war against Iran. Criticizing statements made by Mike Mullen, Kristol says flat out: Even assuming the degree and kind of “destabilization” would be the same in both the cases of attack and appeasement (which I don’t think [...]
Vice President Joe Biden took no questions Monday during his brief Briefing Room appearance at the White House. He was there to drive a message, not discuss. Iraqi security forces, with U.S. military support, had killed the two most senior leaders of Al Qaeda in Iraq, operational leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri and spiritual leader Abu [...]
I received this photo today from Major Korey Brown of the 1/12. It shows Captain Jeremiah Ellis receiving a medal from his commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Reik Anderson, in the courtyard of the Pir Mohammed School. I’ll be updating the situation in Senjaray in a few days.
TIME is taking reader questions for an upcoming interview that will run in the magazine. You can submit your queries here.
On the Chris Mathews Show Sunday, I said that some of the right-wing infotainment gasbags–people like Glenn Beck etc.–were nudging up close to the edge of sedition. This has caused a bit of a self-righteous ruckus on the right. Let me be clear: dissent isn’t sedition. Questioning an Administration’s policies isn’t sedition. But questioning an [...]
