As regular readers know, in April, I chronicled the efforts of Captain Jeremiah Ellis and his troops to reopen the Pir Mohammed School, which had been closed and booby-trapped by the Taliban, in the crucial Kandahar Province town of Senjaray. Ellis and Dog Company shipped out in early June. (He’s now on leave, on safari [...]
In a grueling briefing marked by testy exchanges and nervous laughter, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs apologized to Shirley Sherrod on behalf of the Obama Administration. “A disservice was done, for which we apologize,” Gibbs said. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was attempting to reach Sherrod, Gibbs said, to offer an apology and discuss “next [...]
Via The Page, a little bird snapped a photo of Valerie Jarrett and Elizabeth Warren breaking bread this afternoon at the Occidental Grill in D.C.: Victory lunch or job interview?
Just when you thought Congress was spent — literally — and done for the year they’ll turn around and surprise you. No money left to do anything? United Republican opposition? Democrats are planning to take on the great white whale of spending: extending President Bush’s middle class tax cuts. The cost is estimated from $1.6 [...]
Our Miami-based colleague Tim Padgett files this report on a very savvy Charlie Crist: At first glance, Tuesday looked like a bad day for Florida Governor Charlie Crist. He’d called the Florida legislature back to Tallahassee to consider placing an initiative on the November ballot asking voters whether offshore oil drilling should be constitutionally banned. [...]
A weird and fascinating little tale from Wired‘s Danger Room: Active Denial has long been considered the “Holy Grail” of crowd control, for its ability to penetrate just a 64th of an inch underneath the skin, and inspire people to move — fast — from the pain that ensued. To Active Denial’s boosters, that made [...]
This afternoon Barack Obama welcomed the new British prime minister, David Cameron, to the White House, in a meeting the two men billed in a largely news-free press availability afterwards as a reaffirmation of the venerable US-UK “special relationship.” Neither man bit on questions about a possible investigation into BP’s role in the release of [...]
