Bit by bit, bipartisan negotiations in the Senate over financial regulatory reform have broken down. Richard Shelby, the ranking Republican on the Banking Committee split with the Democratic Chairman, Chris Dodd in February. Bob Corker filled the gap, stepping in to try to hammer out a compromise on an issue in which both parties see [...]
An ABC News report quantifies the obvious: life as a private citizen has been lucrative for Sarah Palin. ABC estimates that since stepping down as governor of Alaska in July, Palin has raked in some $12 million from book deals, speaking fees and television projects. According to the network: That conservative estimate is based on [...]
It may be premature, but it seems to me that President Obama’s nuclear summit has yielded some very important diplomatic progress. Yes, the Indians and Pakistanis are still involved in their brotherly insanity, and yes, both Iran and North Korea are still international outlaws. But Ukraine has agreed to give up its highly enriched uranium [...]
All the higher-end hotel managers must have felt their hearts go aflutter — and their eyes light up with dollar signs like a slot machine gone jackpot — upon hearing that 40-odd heads of state (and their entourages) would be coming to Washington D.C. for a nuclear summit. As the talks have gotten underway, some [...]
Because he could, I guess. The Dracula thing is just a weird thing to pin on J.D. Hayworth, since it started with someone else attacking him. And I’m not sure, but that Mars Attack footage at the end of the clip sure seems to me like it could be read as an illegal immigration reference. [...]
After a briefing on nuclear security Monday afternoon, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs took a question about the possibility of Supreme Court Justice State Hillary Clinton. He did not dodge the question. “I think the president has identified in Secretary Clinton a job he thinks she is doing–a capacity in which she is doing a [...]
Amid all the hand-wringing over how would-be underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab somehow slipped through security gaps on Christmas Day, it’s easy to forget that anti-terrorism officials did yeoman’s work last fall by thwarting Najibullah Zazi’s plot to detonate bombs in New York City’s subway system. Zazi, an airport-shuttle driver living in Colorado, pleaded guilty [...]
This week’s podcast features Michael, Alex and Kate talking about the search for Justice Stevens’ replacement, the Southern Republican Leadership Conference and more. Enjoy:
