Official White House Photo by Pete Souza –It’s primary day in Arkansas, Kentucky, Oregon and Pennsylvania. Contests between Lincoln and Halter, Paul and Grayson, and Specter and Sestak, as well as a special election between Critz and Burns in PA-12 are widely seen as yardsticks by which to measure this cycle’s anti-establishment mood. Members of [...]
The New York Times is reporting that Connecticut Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, never served in the Vietnam War despite his claims that he did. At a ceremony honoring veterans and senior citizens who sent presents to soldiers overseas, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut rose and spoke of an earlier time in his life. “We [...]
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is feeling pretty good today. After using his political power as the state’s Republican leader and his veto power as governor, Pawlenty has notched a massive state budget victory that Politico’s Ben Smith says lays the groundwork for the governor’s assumed 2012 presidential run. Refusing to compromise with Democrats who control [...]
There are a lot of races this week — perhaps the busiest primary week since the 2008 season. Here’s a story from me about the five top Democratic primaries. Obviously, as I mention, there’s also the Rand Paul/Trey Grayson smackdown in Kentucky on the Republican side which it looks like Paul will likely win in [...]
As debate over SB1070 continues to rage, The Arizona Republic convenes a panel of experts to parse its practical applications. It should come as no surprise that when and how the controversial new law should be enforced remains open to interpretation. The five-person panel included two Arizona legislators: a Republican who sponsored the House version [...]
This is an excellent, well-argued piece by Peter Beinart about the moral failure of Jewish-American leaders with regard to Israel’s hard-right turn. I would hope that the leaders of AIPAC, the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League etc etc would read it and think about it carefully, and that it forces those who have refused [...]
Bob Schieffer of CBS says that’s what sources are telling him privately about tomorrow’s Pennsylvania Senate primary. (Via Greg Sargent.) “In all candor, I have been told on background and so forth that the White House is preparing for a Specter loss here, and that the president doesn’t want to be associated with that,” the [...]
The adage is: if you’re not winning against a guerrilla insurgency, you’re losing. We’re not winning in Afghanistan. And our performance in Marja isn’t helping any. Indeed, it hurts in several ways detailed in this excellent NY Times piece:
Last week, Pat Buchanan did what Pat Buchanan tends to do: He penned another muscular defense of the White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant, that oppressed affinity group that is beset on all sides by more colorful and confusing races and religions. (If you missed it, you can still buy Buchanan’s 2001 book, Death of the West: How [...]
