To hear the chatter, this is big, like The Beatles partying with The Rolling Stones, or Prince sharing a stage with Michael Jackson, or Elvis doing a surfer movie with Frank Sinatra. The two alpha women of conservative politics, Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin, will share the same stage in Minnesota Wednesday for a rally, [...]
Barack Obama confirmed to Matt Lauer last week what we here at Time.com first reported in June 2009: the First Family is not looking to join a church in the Washington, DC area. The family’s main reason for calling off the search, Obama said, was the concern that their presence would prove too disruptive for [...]
TIME’s Techland blog has a good rundown of today’s D.C. Circuit Court decision that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to enforce net neutrality rules. In essence, the decision means that internet providers–probably your cable or phone companies–can pretty much avoid being stopped by the FCC from making some content online harder to get [...]
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a possible contender for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, has announced he will join a growing number of states challenging the legality of the health reform law. This further distinguishes Pawlenty from another top contender for the nomination, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (Romney, you may remember, launched state-based reforms in [...]
So what are Democratic members of Congress facing out there, as they return to their districts in the wake of passing sweeping health care legislation? Are they encountering angry mobs shouting “repeal and replace”? Are they being showered with bouquets and greeted as liberators?
The Fox News playbook calls for the promotion and evisceration of its critics. If the White House bad mouths the network, Glenn Beck adds a red phone to his set so its staff can call in. If LL Cool J objects to Sarah Palin rehashing an old interview of him for her show, a Fox [...]
After enduring a public flogging on Capitol Hill, Toyota execs will now have to contend with regulators’ attempts to slap a civil penalty on the beleaguered automaker. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today that NHTSA, whose purportedly lax oversight made it the target of withering criticism during Congressional hearings into Toyota’s customer-safety crisis, will seek [...]
We have of late been chronicling the utterances of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. First he meets with President Obama in Kabul, and thanks American taxpayers for their contributions to his nation. Then he announces that “foreigners”–like, um, the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan–are trying to corrupt the Afghan government. This earns a rebuke from the White [...]
