Yesterday evening, the Obama Administration announced it was renominating Dr. Donald Berwick to be head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The White House formally nominated Berwick last year as well, but installed him via recess appointment to avoid a contentious Senate confirmation hearing. Berwick has been on the job since July [...]
The toppling of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt would open up quite a can of worms for the U.S., but perhaps no country is as concerned about the outcome there as Israel, which counts the Mubarak regime as one of its few Arab allies. Among other things, an Islamist government in Egypt that opened the now-closed [...]
A Pew Internet Research and American Life Project survey out today finds Republicans caught up to Democrats in political engagement on social networking sites between the last two election cycles: The initial disparity was in part due to the fact Democratic voters tend to be younger (thus earlier adopters). But older people, who skew Republican, [...]
A few weeks back, I was charged with reviewing the anonymous novel O. Almost immediately, I fired off a blog post pointing to a couple factual problems with the book’s marketing strategy, and speculating that the author was not Mark Salter, John McCain’s longtime literary scribe, on the basis of a single sentence’s syntax. I [...]
–New York Times boss Bill Keller goes long on the paper of record’s interactions with Julian Assange. –Centuries of legal precedent be damned, Republican state legislators in Idaho have introduced a “nullification” bill as part of a plan to fight the PPACA on states-rights grounds. More states are mulling similar measures. –Writing at Greg Sargent’s [...]
Landing today in reporters’ inboxes, a joint statement from mortal enemies Richard Trumka, labor’s leading man, and Tom Donahue, big business’s voice in Washington: WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka issued the following joint statement on President Obama’s State of the Union Address: “America’s working [...]
