Who would have guessed that, in the midterm election home stretch, the White House would spend more than a week talking about television commercials? And yet it’s been nearly impossible of late to hear an Obama administration official speak without getting a quick primer in the way independent conservative groups are running hundreds of millions [...]
The long-awaited battle for Kandahar Province has begun and Time’s Jason Motlagh is there, at the heart of the fight in the same Zhari district where I embedded last April. There is a larger story here, about a change in emphasis by General David Petraeus, from counterinsurgency toward counterterrorism, that Fred Kaplan laid out here [...]
It’s not unusual to break up with someone and still hold a grudge. The bad feelings can even be acted upon in age-old ways: Throw out the ex’s favorite stuff left, throw a drink in his face in a bar, write something nasty on a Facebook page, get your friends to stop talking to her, [...]
Drudge is currently featuring this video of the President speaking in Ohio yesterday as his lead item, under the headline: The Panic of 2010. I don’t get it. I don’t see any panic there. Just a pretty good bit of campaign rhetoric. I mean, does Drudge actually think that Obama is panicking here? Or does [...]
Evoking the Continental Congress and Alexander Hamilton – and referencing Sen. Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts – Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli emerged from a federal courtroom today sounding confident that the U.S. Supreme Court will ultimately find the Affordable Care Act to be unconstitutional. Cuccinelli is leading one of several lawsuits arguing that the [...]
Yesterday in a Meet the Press debate with Michael Bennet, Ken Buck misspoke. Badly. When asked by moderator David Gregory if he thought homosexuality is a choice Buck said he believed it is and went on to compare homosexuality to alcoholism. GREGORY: Do you believe that being gay is a choice? BUCK: I do. GREGORY: [...]
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Kevin Drum touches on something that I heard from a Democratic operative this week: That the White House offensive against the Chamber of Commerce is as much about shaping the campaign-funding debate ahead of the 2012 presidential election as it is about the 2010 midterms. Part of that may be about drumming up support for [...]
I have used a BlackBerry every day since the middle of 2005, and like most men, I carry the BlackBerry in my pocket. Never thought twice about it, really. Turns out, I am a moron. I should have read the fine print. Here it is, from the BlackBerry website for my Blackberry 9000 phone: To [...]
