Shame on all those Republicans salivating over President Obama’s support for the Cordoba Islamic Center, which is to be built several blocks away from Ground Zero in New York. Despite all the high-minded words about “sensitivity” for the families of the victims, this is slimeball politics, pure and simple, except for when it descends into [...]
After Obama’s strong statement on Friday in defense of religious freedom and the right of Muslims to build Cordoba House near Ground Zero, I wondered if other Democrats would feel they now had cover to come out in favor of the planned construction as well. After all, up to that point, the “debate” had really [...]
This election cycle has been awash in oddball campaign ads, from Alan Grayson’s summer blockbuster-themed spot to Rick Barber’s Tea Party seance to anything involving Alabama ag commissioner candidate Dale Peterson. Today’s entrant in the genre comes courtesy of Dan Freilich, a Democratic Senate candidate in Vermont. As inveterate TV watchers will likely recognize, it’s [...]
Set your countdown clocks to 2011, when Robert Gates, Defense Secretary to George W. Bush and Barack Obama, plans to step down. “It would be a mistake to wait until January 2012,” he tells Foreign Policy, in an exclusive interview. “This is not the kind of job you want to fill in the spring of [...]
Public Policy Polling, one of the rising autodial outfits, put out a national poll asking about marijuana legalization and use last week. For fun, they added a question about the 2012 Republican primary, and then cross tabulated the results. So now we know who pot smokers want for president–except not really. Here are the results. [...]
This is the tale of two polls. The first was done by Mason-Dixon, between August 8 and 11. It surveyed 400 likely Democratic primary voters with a margin of error of 5 percent. It found Kendrick Meek had a commanding lead over his Democratic Senate primary opponent Jeff Greene. Meek got 40 percent. Greene got [...]
After six years, a Grand Jury and a thousand pages of documents including staff emails, the Justice Department last week dropped its investigation into former Majority Leader Tom Delay’s ties with disgraced GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff. “I think they’d just reached a dead end. They certainly were very thorough – they talked to everybody,” says [...]
Given all the war and economic frustration and tumult, an absolutely crucial story–one that may have tremendous impact on our economy in the long-term–is taking place in China: the revolt of Chinese workers, in industry after industry, against the squalid working conditions and lousy benefits. The New York Times has been doing a good job [...]
