Arlington Heights, Ill. I’ve been doing more talking than listening the past few days, what with Rodney Crowell and Jim Pinkerton as traveling companions…if these Refrigerator walls could talk, they’d tell you some great tales about Rodney’s former father-in-law Johnny Cash and you’d hear a startling disquisition from Pinkerton on what Alexander Hamilton and Hillaire [...]
Former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson joins Hillary Clinton and the chorus blaming the media for Rev. Terry Jones today, arguing that by covering the would-be Koran desecrator we enabled the creation of “something new, something that will be studied for generations: the propaganda of the idiotic gesture.” On the contrary, the media have been accused [...]
It’s been five weeks since anyone’s seen anyone and the Senate this afternoon felt a lot like College coming back after a break. Maybe not a summer break, but a long one – like Christmas/Hanukah/Kwanza. Senators, reporters and staff milled about chatting about their vacations, codels and campaigns. The Capitol Police, usually fastidious in their [...]
Together at last, on the issue of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Reid promises a DADT vote for next week, although a likely GOP filibuster seems like a pretty big obstacle.
Arlington Heights, Ill. Traveling Companion: Jim Pinkerton Event: Actually, this happened a few days ago in Detroit. I’ve been thinking about a story I was told over breakfast in Detroit on Saturday–a monologue, almost–by Mark Kirkwood, who works at Statewide Disaster Restoration, a company that rebuilds homes and buildings that have suffered water or fire [...]
In a quick break from politics here, check out this priceless story about the Italian mafia’s adventures in wind farms and solar energy.
Sharon, Wisconsin Traveling Companion: Jim Pinkerton Event: Raymond Hubbard Casts A Vote We’re standing at the Sharon, Wisconsin, town hall, which is essentially a garage plopped in the middle of cornfields. It’s about 8:30 am, blue sky, no tears. This is where the metropolis of Sharon votes–and we’re waiting for one particular voter, a friend [...]
Wise words from Ezra Klein: It’s not that there is no argument too crazy to be obsessed over by liberals, but that there’s no crazy argument liberals won’t obsess over. They’ll totally ignore plenty of arguments that aren’t that crazy. And so too will conservatives. But the crazy stuff is fun to write about, or [...]
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Allow me to introduce the newest addition to our ever-growing Swampland team, Massimo Calabresi. A Washington Correspondent for TIME since 1999, Massimo has done stints covering the State, Treasury and Justice Departments, the CIA, the White House and Congress. Prior to that he served as Central Europe Bureau Chief during the Balkan wars. Though he’s [...]
