–West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin is tapping his former general counsel, Carte Goodwin, to keep late Sen. Robert Byrd’s seat warm until the state can hold a special election (likely later this year). As The Fix explains, Manchin’s decision to appoint the 36-year-old Goodwin–who would be the chamber’s youngest member–is another sign that the governor [...]
By a 60-39 vote Thursday, the Senate passed legislation that re-calibrates the flow of capital through the American financial sector and provides new powers to the regulatory regime that oversees it. The final bill is the culmination of a near two-year effort launched after 2008′s Wall Street crisis thrust the nation into recession and marks [...]
TIME’s Elizabeth Dias files this report: One hundred thousand faithful Americans are telling Glenn Beck that enough is enough. This summer as Beck travels the United States solo and with Bill O’Reilly, Faithful America–a multi-faith justice organization–has rallied its members to push back against Beck’s anti-Christian-social-justice message. When Beck makes stops in South Carolina, New [...]
Amazing how David Petraeus can just crash through impasses and get his way. He’s even able to do get Hamid Karzai, who has boggled every other American who has dealt with him, to do something he doesn’t want to do–set up a system of local militias in rural Afghanistan. Karzai’s concerns are legitimate: the local [...]
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An attack on Iran really is on the table. Note on Column Writing: Unlike blogging, column-writing is strictly constrained by space. I get about 815 words per week. This week I chose to spend those words reporting what I’d learned–all of it new information, unreported elsewhere–rather than opining about it. My opinion about an attack [...]
