Tuesday night’s primaries reminded us that nothing this election season is as we expect it. A third Senate incumbent is fighting for her political life this morning: in a surprisingly close race Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski is trailing Tea Party fave Joe Miller by 2,000 votes with 98% of precincts reporting. The results of this [...]
John Boehner isn’t known for commanding national headlines, but a combination of a verrry slow news moment and a catchy gimmick–calling on Obama to fire his economic team–is producing some decent headlines for the Republican House leader, who hopes to replace Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker next year. Jay already did an excellent job of [...]
TIME’s Katy Steinmetz and Feifei Sun have this fun compilation of the best TV ads thus far this campaign season. The gallery is well worth the click through — many of them are, intentionaly or not, hysterical. My favorite for oh, so many reasons (the gun slinging, the close up of his horse’s face when [...]
Ahmed Rashid, the very best journalist in the world working the India-Pakistan-Afghanistan account, has a comprehensive survey of the situation in Pakistan in the latest National Interest. It seems clear that Ahmed wrote this piece before the monsoon flooding, which has exacerbated–perhaps to the breaking point–all the problems he describes herein. But this certainly is [...]
Via the White House Flickr Feed: (President Obama puts his toe on a scale as Trip Director Marvin Nicholson weighs himself. The President and his entourage were passing through a locker room at the University of Texas in Austin on Aug. 9, 2010)
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Shirley Sherrod, the former USDA official unfairly ousted from her job back in July, has declined to rejoin the agency in another capacity. Saying she has accepted an apology from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who she met with today, Sherrod nonetheless told reporters she wants to “take a little break” from USDA work. (Vilsack sacked [...]
If you like the kind of comedy that makes you cringe as you’re watching someone train wreck their life, then this is the show for you. Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich hit the Daily Show last night. Here’s the interview. Part 1: And Part 2:
