–By a 13-6 margin, the Senate Judiciary Committee backed Elena Kagan’s nomination for a spot on the Supreme Court, sending her candidacy to the full Senate for final confirmation. The vote split nearly along party lines, with South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham the only Republican to cross the aisle in support of Kagan. The New [...]
No one (that I saw) seemed to pick up on this over the weekend, but New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg– whose name perennially circulates as a potential White House contender, to varying degrees of credulity–recently told an audience that he’s not thinking about the White House: “Every one of my positions cuts out half [...]
Judging from the newspapers these last few days, liberal activists seem to have made some progress in their quest to turn to President Obama’s choice to run the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) into a proxy for whether or not the transform-Washington, candidate-of-hope-and-change is a just talk or the real deal. Obama will pass the [...]
Michele Bachmann is making her GOP colleagues uncomfortable these days. Last week she started the Congressional Tea Party Caucus – the latest litmus test on how devoted members really are to the fledgling movement. Indiana’s Mike Pence, chairman of the Republican Conference, was quickly to sign up. Not so quick were House Minority Leader John [...]
The Senate Judiciary Committee in the next few minutes will report out the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. Her passage through the committee is all but assured given that Democrats control it by a margin of 12-7. The only bit of news this vote will yield is whether or not [...]
As an inveterate lover of neologisms, I am fiercely approviating of Sarah Palin’s recent coinage: she called on peace-loving Muslisms to refudiate the proposed mosque at the World Trade Center site. This continues two grand American political traditions. The first is benign. Those politicians who have only a passing familiarity with proper English tend to [...]
I’ve never met Jim Mattis, the new Centcom commander, but he sounds like a pretty interesting guy: It was the first winter of the war in Afghanistan, when the wind stabbed like an ice pick and fingertips froze to triggers, but a young lieutenant’s blood simmered as he approached a Marine fighting hole and spotted [...]
Fox news has refused to run an ad, produced by a veterans group, supporting passage of a energy conservation bill. It’s a terrific ad. Take a look–via Steve Benen. You decide. It’s interesting. Frank Gaffney and more than a few other conservatives believe that energy conservation is a national security issue. But that seems to be [...]
The only reason I wrote the above headline was to link to this column, by Gene Weingarten, in Sunday’s Washington Post, bemoaning what the Internet has done to newsmaking. (It is worth noting that the Washington Post still publishes Weingarten on Sunday, but now waits till Monday to publish major investigative scoops for the online [...]
