Via Stars and Stripes, the GWOT meets Dilbert: Ladies and Gentleman, The individuals you see in full PPE and the individuals you see in “Arabic attire” armed with AK-47’s, pistols and IEDs are role players and/or USAG-K reaction force personnel who are conducting TRAINING. Please stop calling the German Police, Military Police and hiding in [...]
Sarah Palin has started another Facebook flame war, this time with a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. On Monday, Sudeep Reddy took issue with a line from a recent Palin critique of the Federal Reserve’s new program of quantitative easing: “Everyone who ever goes out shopping for groceries knows that prices have risen significantly [...]
Slogging his way through Washington over the past couple of years has certainly demystified Barack Obama. The thoughtful writer with a complex identity and exotic upbringing has gradually morphed into just another an embattled president caught up in tedious Capitol Hill battles with the capital’s usual suspects. But Obama’s remarks up his return to Indonesia [...]
No doubt, there will be a revival of racial debate over these data, reported in the New York Times today: Only 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys are proficient in reading, compared with 38 percent of white boys, and only 12 percent of black eighth-grade boys are proficient in math, compared with 44 percent of [...]
DHS announced new restrictions on air freight Monday. Cargo from Yemen and Somalia will be blocked, and large printer cartridges will be banned from domestic passenger flights and from international passenger flights coming into the U.S. I wrote a news story for the current print and IPad editions of the magazine on the Yemen-based printer [...]
The hardest part of covering the White House is portraying the banality of the human being presiding at the heart of the sprawling executive branch of American government. In the case of George W. Bush, the caricature of incompetence accepted by much of the country by the end of his second term obscured as much [...]
Two weeks ago I blogged here about one Georgia town’s loss of faith in government and the economy after its hometown bank failed. The full article is now available online here.
It’s no secret that the American people are exhausted, disappointed and turned off by Congress. But consider this sentence, which helps to define the current wreckage that is the political landscape: [F]or close to 15 years now, all major congressional actions have basically been giveaways. This is just a fact. Republicans have given tax cuts [...]
