Politico summarizes the drama: three jobs in four years; posing with kids that are not his own; and then, helping out a semi-pornographic clubbing website in Arizona, where he may or may not have gone by the name of a fictional pornstar, Brock Landers. Oh, and did I mention he is the son of former [...]
For copyright reasons, I won’t post the photos from Rush Limbaugh’s wedding that the radio host has just published on his Facebook page. But take a look. They are here. The ones of Rush posing with Elton John, who is wearing what looks like diamond encrusted “EJ” sunglasses, are pretty special.
Well, of course he does. It is the nature of David Petraeus to move mountains to achieve his mission–and the immediate mountain sitting in front of him is the Obama Administration’s December policy review, which will determine how quickly we start to leave Afghanistan in July 2011. Petraeus and Stanley McChrystal came away from the [...]
The Pew Hispanic Center, which conducts stellar research on everything from health care to religion, released a report today quantifying just how many children are born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants. The report comes in the midst of a campaign by some Republicans to hold congressional hearings on whether children born to illegal immigrants [...]
I don’t know how many Americans will note the death of former Chicago Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, but it comes at a symbolically ominous moment for Democrats, who are already trying to beat back a Republican narrative about corruption on Capitol Hill. As House Ways and Means chairman, Rosty was a jowly titan of the 1980s [...]
Hail and Farewell to Evan Thomas, a superb writer and editor who is leaving Newsweek. He was a classic newsweekly writer of the old breed. He could take reporting from a half dozen staffers and cobble together a beautiful piece of prose (our Nancy Gibbs–now a top editor and columnist at Time–would also do this [...]
I hope you’ve already read TIME’s much-discussed cover story on the Taliban’s often sadistic treatment of women, and the additional moral pressure it places on Barack Obama’s decision making about Afghanistan. (Which is not the same as saying that we must stay in Afghanistan, by the way.) Along those lines comes an especially awful story [...]
Well, not really. But the last President did have some admirable attributes. One was his color-blindness and all-around tolerance–something the current Republican party has vehemently abandoned. It would be nice if Bush came out of retirement to scold the nativists in his clan about their anti-immigrant and anti-mosque phobias. But he has decided to keep [...]
