The New York Times leads today with Jeff Zeleny and Carl Hulse’s report
It now appears that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is going to form a new government–with the support of none other than Muqtada Sadr, who is always called a “radical cleric” by the western media and whose Mahdi Army militia inflicted some of the worst losses on the U.S. military during the recent war. Sadr [...]
I wouldn’t count on either the politics of TARP shifting too much or John Thune boasting about his vote any time soon. Here’s the Senator in a recent interview with Major Garrett and Jeff Zeleny (relevant section starts around the three-minute mark): I have probably been one of the fiercest critics and probably biggest advocates [...]
The UK has been more productive than the US in addressing climate change, legislatively at least. In 2009, the EU committed to a “20% by 2020” resolution to cut carbon emissions as a whole, a measure that allowed for intriguing means of flexibility like limiting the increase on emissions for developing (read: Eastern European) countries [...]
So it looks like the passionately-reviled $700 billion TARP bailout–maybe not quite a Big Bang for the Tea Party movement, but certainly a huge event in its history–will wind up costing the federral government relatively little. Indeed, it seems taxpayers may even turn a profit on the fall 2008 bank bailout. As former Utah Senator [...]
Los Angeles, Ca. Traveling Companions: none Events: Closing it Down Mileage: 6,782 Yesterday, in late afternoon, I stood at the edge of the Pacific Ocean. It was a beautiful day, the beach was empty, the ocean calm. The trip was over. It was an amazing experience, perhaps a transformative one. I’ve started to rethink my [...]
We hear a lot of rationales for the ongoing war in Afghanistan. One is is that we’re flushing out al Qaeda. Another is that we’re defending the stability of Pakistan. Then there’s the argument that we simply can’t accept defeat because it would have consequences beyond the immediate region–ones that would “resonate throughout the Islamic [...]
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Director Kathleen Sebelius apologized today for a 1940s U.S. government program that intentionally infected Guatemalans with sexually transmitted diseases without their consent. “The sexually transmitted disease inoculation study conducted from 1946-1948 in Guatemala was clearly unethical,” they said in a joint statement. “Although these events [...]
I’ve always been a Rahm fan, even when I disagreed with him. Love the passion, the quickness, the candor. Ron Brownstein has a nice appreciation of what Emanuel actually believes here. But his departure–and Pete Rouse’s imminent arrival–highlight a debilitating tendency that Democratic presidents have: they tend to go for chiefs of staff who have [...]
