Updated below with Department of Homeland Security Response Michelle Obama joined Mexico’s first lady, Margarita Zavala, at a school in suburban Washington DC today, where everyone ran around, bounced balls and talked about sports. But during the Q&A that followed, a second grade student asked a question that was more piercing than anything that happened [...]
Updated So reports the Wall Street Journal. The Chris Dodd compromise I mentioned this morning is being dropped from financial reform as Democratic leadership in the Senate scrambles to line up final votes on amendments and a cloture motion this afternoon. As Jay suggested the other day, there’s a political angle. Senator Blanche Lincoln, facing [...]
A year or so after moving to Washington, I got a call from a book agent, who offered to buy me a drink anywhere in the city. I chose Off The Record at the Hay Adams Hotel, because it seemed the most obnoxious option. He sat me down, and asked, “Everyone knows what the Malcolm [...]
I have a Time.com piece up on Rand Paul’s victory party last night. For a candidate who framed himself as the crusading outsider, the shindig was a pretty genteel, insider-y affair, populated more by personal connections, campaign coordinators and influential backers than Tea Party folks. (There were none of the ubiquitous “Don’t Tread on Me” [...]
Things are getting a bit hairy. After yesterday’s grisly attack on a U.S. convoy in Kabul, the Taliban attacked Bagram Airbase this morning. There was a certain futility to this attack, which may reflect the insurgents’ frustration with the efficacy of recent U.S. successes in wiping out the Taliban’s mid-level leadership…or it may just reflect [...]
Two can play at that game. Original ad after the jump:
(I just wanna see if I can post this before Adam gets his must reads up.) See the original ad after the jump.
From the top of my Time.com story about last night: This is how it goes in 2010 at the ballot box: old orders are upended, political lions become roadkill, chosen successors get left behind and the outsider, riding a wave of discontent, becomes the new front-runner. In quick succession Tuesday night, the jittery inhabitants of [...]
