Afghan president Hamid Karzai will be coming to Washington in May. Over the weekend, he met with President Obama in Kabul, saying: I welcome you on behalf of the Afghan people and express the gratitude of our people for the help that America has given us in the past eight years, for the assistance given. [...]
Stay independent. Weed out the kooks. Get a focused message. From today’s Wall Street Journal: My advice to them is to keep their distance from any single party and instead influence both parties on debt, spending and an over-reaching federal government. Allowing third-party movements to co-opt the tea partiers’ good name, which is happening in [...]
This is painful to watch, almost in the same way that watching Corey Haim do that True Hollywood special was painful to watch. According to The Hill, Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., spoke at a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee. Thankfully, the military assures us that Guam will not tip over and capsize. As [...]
Michael, I’m reading Swampland while I’m on vacation (doesn’t everyone?), and your post reminded me of a story that I did on Romney and the Massachusetts health care plan back in November, 2007. Indeed, he and Kennedy had been close allies in bringing universal coverage to the state. Here’s how it came about:
A message from your friends at the Republican Senatorial Committee: (And check out the hipster Ryan McGinness-like graphics at the end. Is Williamsburg in play in 2010?) UPDATE: In other April Fools news, BarackObama.com is selling “Health Reform is a BFD” T-shirts.
Yesterday, in a post about President Obama’s offshore oil drilling plan, I noted that the “candidate of change” had once talked out of both sides of his mouth on offshore exploration. He condemned John McCain for wanting to expand offshore oil drilling one day, and then said another day that he was open to expanding [...]
