In the White House briefing today, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs passed on a chance to comment on the burgeoning controversy over a planned mosque near the site of the former World Trade Center, calling it a “local” matter. New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg is not taking a pass. From remarks he delivered today on Governors [...]
As Arizona’s SB1070 fans the fiery debate over immigration, Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell has joined several Senate Republicans to endorse a Congressional review of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause, which automatically accords citizenship to any child born in the U.S., regardless of parental immigration status. “I think we ought to take a look at it — [...]
It should be no surprise that Pete Wehner, the pious promoter of Bush’s spurious freedom agenda, doesn’t quite believe in religious freedom. (In truth, he and Bill Kristol and the other Republican political hacks who like to pose as intellectuals see this as a great nativist issue to use against Democrats, especially our President–I mean, [...]
We’re now three months away from the Congressional elections and all the polling trends are holding–and so we can now, officially, say that things are looking pretty awful for the Democrats. This report from the Democratic polling firm of Greenberg, Quinlan and Rosner has all the gory details. People are pessimistic about the country’s direction, [...]
The Nevada Senate candidate’s rocky relationship with the press isn’t going to be getting much better after this one: For what it’s worth, nothing she says in this clip is untrue — every campaign wishes things worked that way. They just don’t usually admit it.
I’ve met Sidney Harman several times; he’s a delightful man–with a storehouse of poetry rattling around his brain–and, as an inveterate fan of weekly journalism, I can only wish him the best in his efforts to resuscitate our main competitor, known around here as Brand X. As a Newsweek alumnus, I can say it was [...]
The Washington Post’s excellent Rajiv Chandrasekaran reports on the U.S. efforts to replicate the security systems that worked in Baghdad. My conclusion: it will probably take a very long time to know if this is going to work–and, in the end, it probably won’t. The difference between Baghdad and Kandahar is that in Baghdad Iraqi police [...]
I guess those who care about international press freedom can take comfort in the fact that Marc Thiessen no longer works for the government. On the Washington Post website, the former Bush Administration speechwriter and harsh interrogation booster, offers his view of WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange. In short, Thiessen calls for the U.S. [...]
Well, at least he didn’t announce the end of major combat operations in Iraq under a banner that said “Mission Accomplished.” He did it in front of the Disabled American Veterans, the most grave and sober audience imaginable. And appropriately so, after a war that should never have been fought, a war that by some [...]
