News came out today that Rep. Maxine Waters is pushing vehemently to have the Standards Committee report on her case released asap and her trial be held before the elections. Given that Congress is coming back next week to vote on $27 billion in funding for first responders and teacher, there could be a window [...]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services certainly knows its audience. As Adam noted earlier, the agency signed up Andy Griffith to appear in television ads now airing and touting changes to Medicare brought about by the new health reform law. This has caused a bit of a stir, with five Republican senators sending a [...]
Former Solicitor General Ted Olson and David Boies may be headed to the Supreme Court again. A federal judge has stuck down Proposition 8 in California, which banned gay marriage, effectively agreeing with the arguments brought by Olson and Boies who sued to overturn the law on constitutional grounds. The LA Times has excerpts from [...]
Truly, election season has arrived: Many of the ideas being promoted by Democrats to stop the slide are hardly new. House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) called the strategy “more meaningless than harmful” after voting for one Democratic proposal, a resolution to encourage packers of domestic fruits and vegetables to display the American flag on [...]
So says Dan Maes, a Colorado Republican vying to capture the party’s Aug. 10 gubernatorial primary. According to the Denver Post, Maes is cautioning voters that an effort to boost bike riding promoted by Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper–the leading Democratic candidate for governor–is a nefarious scheme propagated by the Democrat’s U.N. overlords: “This is all [...]
From (not too deep inside) TIME’s vault, here’s a quick look at how Oval Office occupants have celebrated–from FDR’s gaudy shindigs to Marilyn Monroe’s sultry serenade of JFK.
Early reports on Tuesday primaries in Missouri, Kansas and Michigan all had essentially the same theme: Where is everyone? Granted, voter turnout for primaries isn’t expected to match the grand standard of presidential elections, but the tales trickling in were still uninspiring. “It was a ghost town in Farmington Hills Precinct 4,” one Michigan voter [...]
Today, Republicans are celebrating the fact that Missouri voters just overwhelmingly approved a state anti-health reform ballot initiative. The measure, which says Missouri residents can’t be required to maintain health insurance, is largely symbolic since federal law trumps state law. There was almost no organized opposition to the measure and the various races in the [...]
Fleshing out Jeff Goldberg’s observation that Joe linked to earlier, our TIME colleague Bobby Ghosh takes a look at Feisal Abdul Rauf, the moderate imam behind the proposed Islamic center near the World Trade Center. As Bobby points out, Rauf is “just the kind of ‘peaceful Muslims’ that Sarah Palin, in her now infamous tweet, [...]
