A motion to proceed to a resolution sponsored by Senator Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican, that would express the Senate’s “disapproval” of the Environmental Protection Agency’s move this week to regulate greenhouse gases failed today 47-53. The Agency argues that it is complying with a 2007 Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts vs. the EPA where [...]
Nearly a year ago, a former colleague of mine, Salon’s Mark Benjamin, wrote the first in what would soon become a long series of articles about dysfunction at Arlington National Cemetery. Published on July 16, 2009, the story was headlined, “Grave offenses at Arlington National Cemetery,” and it included these paragraphs: Despite nearly 10 years [...]
Members of the House and Senate are currently meeting to iron out the differences between their two regulatory reform bills and you can watch the thrilling roller coaster ride live on C-SPAN if you’re so inclined. If you need some reading material to follow along with, here are a few suggestions: A list of participants [...]
No really. This happened. Blood was drawn.
Michael Rubin does some completely spurious calculations regarding the $400,ooo million in aid that the Obama Administration is planning to give the Palestinian Authority: 1. There have been eight terrorist attacks against Israel since Obama’s inauguration, so Obama is paying President Abbas a modest sum of $50 million per attack. 2. The were 2,048 rockets and [...]
More fun from California. So good. The rap on Carly Fiorina is that she is less personable than she might be. In this priceless open mic incident, Fiorina, who won the Republican nomination to challenge Barabara Boxer, comes off as, well, sort of a jerk. The payoff line comes at the end, starting at about [...]
The California Labor Federation put out a statement today calling the following ad “patently offensive.” Watch closely and see if you can spot the outrage. (I couldn’t.) The full statement from Steve Smith, of the California Labor Federation, follows after the jump. Billionaires, it seems, are not people too.
In the dead-tree edition out tomorrow, Michael has a piece about Nikki Haley and the fusillade of attacks that helped propel her candidacy in South Carolina’s Republican gubernatorial primary. Yet for all the fireworks on the GOP side, the Democratic primary was the true shocker, as a question mark named Alvin Greene defeated a well-funded [...]
However vicious we already know the Taliban to be, but it’s still shocking to read that they have hung a seven year old boy for being a “spy.” On the one hand, you’d like to think that this sort of depravity will repel the Afghan people and dim their already limited sympathies for the Taliban. [...]
REUTERS/Lee Celano –The Wall Street Journal reports Blanche Lincoln still has good leverage for her derivatives plan, but it will be tough for the spin-off measure opposed by the White House, the Fed, the FDIC, Volcker, Geithner, et al. to remain unchanged in conference. –In his upcoming Times Sunday mag piece, Matt Bai finds some [...]
