The Minnesota governor/2012 aspirant’s upcoming book features a cover that looks mighty familiar. I guess Palin’s success is worth emulating.
The theme of this Tuesday’s primaries is: if you’re an incumbent and you love your base and you hug it close — really, really tightly — you might just win your party’s nomination. Though, some might argue that running so hard to the right (or the left) might be a Faustian bargain from which you [...]
Well, it’s good to learn that there are limits to Bill Kristol’s tactical skeevery. He clearly states here that Barack Obama is not a Muslim. No winks, no nods, no gratuitous McConnellesque “If he says he’s not, that’s okay with me.” But read the editorial all the way through and you get to this paragraph: [...]
The lead item on Politico–titled “Dems Urge Obama to Take a Stand”–is almost surrealistic. Take a stand? The guy passed health care, a stimulus bill that helped avoid a Depression, a groundbreaking financial reform bill that is too complicated to be popularly described, a bailout that enabled General Motors and Chrysler to survive. He nominated [...]
As I’ve been reporting here for several months, the Pakistanis allowed us to “arrest” Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the second in command of the Taliban, because they were upset that the Taliban and the Afghan government had launched peace talks without Pakistani participation. The ever-excellent Dexter Filkins reports out the story in detail in today’s [...]
From the always excellent White House Photo Blog.
As Crowley writes today on Time.com, health care is not dominating either party’s message heading into the midterms. But that doesn’t mean no one is talking about it. As Kate reports, Democrats are experimenting with novel ways of selling a skeptical electorate on the merits of the new law. Almost assuredly doomed Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln [...]
