(AP photo) –President Obama will be in the Gulf again today – his second trip in a week. BP, meanwhile, says its latest attempt to contain the spill may be working, but will be a while until we know if this is really the beginning of the end of the disaster. Any oil that is [...]
Chuck Norris — yes, everyone’s favorite ranger-cum-martial artist — is set to tour this weekend in support of Iowa gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats. Plaats, a social conservative, is in an uphill GOP race against former Gov. Terry Branstad, who ruled the Hawkeye State for 16 years during the ’80s and ’90s. And they’re going [...]
Our colleague Elizabeth Dias files this report: Two days ago Michelle Obama launched Let’s Move Outside! at Red Rock Canyon in Las Vegas to fight childhood obesity. This afternoon Obama faced a different desert activism outside the White House as he met with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer. Arizona’s controversial immigration bill, SB1070, set to become [...]
President Barack Obama meets with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer in the Oval Office, June 3, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
A few years ago I was having dinner in Washington with one of the more recognizable names in Democratic politics. A gregarious African-American man stopped by the table to pay his respects to my dinner partner. As his visitor walked away, the Democrat turned to me and declared: “Future Speaker of the House.” “Who is [...]
Dave Weigel has an interesting Q & A with Alexander Zaitchik, who’s in the midst of a publicity tour for his new Glenn Beck bio, Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance. Zaitchik, whose book evolved from the must-read profile he penned last fall on the conservative talk show host, sees Beck as [...]
The New York Times reported this morning that legislation regulating abortions is abounding at the state level, but the movement isn’t on a much larger scale than previous years — about 600 abortion-related state laws have passed since 1995, while 24 have passed so far this year. But that’s not to say there aren’t some [...]
The widely derided “junk shot” failed. The “top kill” approach was a flop. Enter the “cut-and-cap” method. Using giant shears, BP sliced off a riser from its still-gushing Gulf of Mexico oil well Thursday morning in an attempt to place a cap over the leak and siphon oil to tankers on the surface. During a [...]
-BP chief Tony Hayward — a guy who can seem blithely dismissive of the damage that his company has wrought — admits the obvious: the oil giant lacked proper techniques to combat a spill of this magnitude. The Post’s Peter Whoriskey surveys the potential economic impact on the Gulf economy, and the findings are not [...]
Fresh from the AP: WASHINGTON — Administration officials dangled the possibility of a job for former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff last year in hopes he would forego a challenge to Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet, his rival in an Aug. 10 primary, administration officials said Wednesday. These officials declined to specify the job that was [...]
