TIME’s Elizabeth Dias files this report: “If you just tuned in, boy, this has got to be the weirdest damn episode you’ve ever heard on the Glenn Beck program,” Glenn Beck admitted late last night, as he took another shot at Christian social justice missions. This time he claimed that black liberation theology—theology that believes [...]
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This time.com story I have out today grew from conversation after conversation on the Hill with Democratic aides who were flabbergasted at the Obama Administration’s focus on immigration reform. “Like a dog with a bone — a bad bone,” one aide said to me. “It’s just crazy – it makes no sense,” said another. Most [...]
Glenn Beck’s ratings are sinking. Still too high, though, for the health of our democracy…but he’s giving all the signs of a fever fad, a one-trick pony.
It’s a wonder this isn’t more common: A shadowy conservative political group, called the American Future Fund, is spending more than $200,000 on an attack ad in Tennessee targeting Bill Haslam one of the Republican candidates for Governor in the upcoming August 5 primary. Here’s the spot: Did you catch that bit at the end? [...]
The reading and spinning of polls is more alchemy than science. The Washington Post, in its infinite wisdom, leads that paper today with this headline: 6 in 10 Americans lack faith in Obama. Uh-oh…paging Pete Wehner and the rest of the sky-is-falling crowd. And, of course, the numbers are not great news for the President. [...]
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–According to the Wall Street Journal, a Dept. of Transportation analysis of sudden-acceleration incidents involving Toyota found that many of the accidents were the result of human error, not faulty engineering. –The New York Times traces the NRA’s expanding platform. –A Colorado community lays off its local police force to help bridge a budget shortfall. [...]
With engineers testing the Deepwater Horizon well’s new cap, national incident commander Thad Allen is hoping for some much-needed good news. Here’s a Time.com profile of the man in charge of the government’s response to the oil spill.
