Today is primary day in Nebraska and West Virginia. There’s really only one race worth watching here, but it could be a doozy: West Virginia Rep. Allan Mollohan, a 14-term Democrat, is facing one of the toughest primaries of his career. Mollohan, who is in perennial trouble with the Ethics Committee for his profligate porking, [...]
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During Elena Kagan’s Senate confirmation hearing, the American public will get a sneak peak of a particularly contentious case that may reach the Supreme Court – the constitutionality of the new health reform law. Several Republican senators have already indicated they plan to ask Kagan about her view of the law’s mandate that everyone purchase [...]
My first reaction to the news that Elena Kagan had any role in banning military recruiters from Harvard Law School was outrage: there is no excuse for this. Indeed, it is disgraceful that more than a few elite universities–in a vestigial reaction to the anti-military sentiment of the Vietnam era–still don’t have ROTC programs or [...]
Marc Thiessen, the Washington Post’s new pro-torture columnist, has a typically brutish piece today in which he argues that if we only treated our latest Taliban trophy-capture, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the same way we treated Khalid Sheik Mohammed–i.e. waterboarded him in a CIA black site–we might find out who was running the Time Square [...]
That, or something like that, is the message behind this new McCain campaign ad. UPDATE: It took me a few hours to confirm but the author of this ad is Fred Davis, the man behind Demon Sheep.
Reuters is reporting that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will resign this year, falling on his sword in hopes of salvaging power for his Labour Party. Liberal Democrats, led by Nick Clegg, had been in coalition talks with the Conservative Party – which won the most seats in last week’s election but failed to secure [...]
