–In a show of solidarity, the Obamas will vacation on the Gulf Coast. –Karen Tumulty writes the White House has skirted racial dialogue at times. –Virginia Senator Jim Webb dives in head first with an op-ed on “the Myth of White Privilege” in the Wall Street Journal. –Federal climate legislation is deader than dead for [...]
William Galston of Brookings has come up with an eminently sane agenda to stimulate jobs growth, which will irritate partisans in both parties. I’m a skeptic about government’s ability to have a profound impact on an economy as enormous and complicated as ours, but it can help on the margins. Galston’s agenda–which includes tax reform, [...]
Fred Kaplan has a smart (as usual) response to the Washington Post’s massive series about the proliferation of secret agencies. The main problem isn’t that our privacy is being threatened. It’s that this proliferation, by its very nature, can’t do the job it was intended to do: It’s not that secrets are bad, or that [...]
Why? Because there is a Supreme Court ruling, now three years old, that carbon dioxide is a poison that needs to be cleaned up. Next year, the Environmental Protection Agency will begin regulating the hell out of Co2. The business community won’t like that, nor will many Republicans. “Putting a price on carbon is the [...]
Actually, it won’t quite be a court — though it could be down the road. A House ethics subcommittee has found that the erstwhile Ways & Means chairman likely violated House rules, a decision Rangel contested. So, in order to resolve the matter, an “adjudicatory subcommittee” must be convened to hear out the case. The [...]
Joining Sarah Palin (perhaps “affirmiating” her position?), Newt Gingrich issued a statement last night opposing the proposed building of a mosque at the World Trade Center site. Gingrich took a break from his busy no-really-I’m-running-for-president-this-time-and-while-I-have-your-attention-have-you-bought-my-new-book-slash-movie? campaign to argue that the best way for Americans to be models of religious tolerance is to stop being tolerant. [...]
Journalists are an oxymoronic tribe of fierce individualists. We’re in constant competition with each other, but we’re thrown into each other’s company–on press buses and planes–and often find ourselves in coy discussions about the amazing things we witness together. This is the stuff of memorable and close friendships; it is also valuable professionally to hear [...]
Linda McMahon is managing to do just that in Connecticut: “She tamed the traveling show world of professional wrestling, turned it into a global company and created 500 jobs here in Connecticut,” says the nice momlady in the ad. And the closing line, “Oooooh yeah.” It’s just gotta be a reference to professional wrestler Macho [...]
On why it will be bad, but perhaps not completely terrible horrible for Democrats this year.
