The troubles in Afghanistan. It appears that Andrew Exum, who has been part of McChrystal’s kitchen cabinet of civilian advisers, is thinking along the same lines. Update: Max Boot disagrees, but it’s interesting: he offers zero analysis of the current predicament. Just blind faith that “where there’s a will, there’s a way.” This is an [...]
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BP just sent out advance text of testimony that BP CEO Tony Hayward will deliver tomorrow before the House of Representatives. There is lots of empathy and emotion. Let me be very clear: I fully grasp the terrible reality of the situation. When I learned that eleven men had lost their lives in the explosion [...]
About six minutes in to the speech Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican, focuses on a center for Islamic studies founded at Harvard during Elena Kagan’s tenure as the Dean of Harvard Law. An excerpt: Around the same time that Dean Kagan was campaigning to exclude military recruiters, citing what she saw [...]
I didn’t think it was so terrible, although I pretty much agree with many of the points that Jim Fallows makes here. I know that there was a strong argument for Obama to make a JFK “We’ll go to the moon” sort of speech, declaring war on fossil fuels and so forth. But let’s put [...]
Read his story on the effort here.
As Bryan noted, one of the fruits of President Obama’s meeting with BP officials today is the announcement that the company will sink $20 billion into an escrow account that will be used to pay out costs associated with the Deepwater Horizon disaster. BP will fund the account in installments over the next three and [...]
“We care about the small people.” –Carl-Henric Svanberg, BP’s chairman, promising that the British energy giant would meet its obligations to the residents of the Gulf Coast.
On the heels of his successful campaigning for Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln, helping her return from the dead to eke out a primary victory earlier this month, Bill Clinton has become very popular. The former president has over a hundred requests from congressional candidates on his desk. He’s especially in demand in the South and [...]
