You should read Tom Junod’s profile of Fox News honcho Roger Ailes in Esquire. There, I said it too. Now, come after me Steve Doocy. Make it hurt real bad. Ben Smith of Politico made this same recommendation yesterday on his blog, which apparently prompted Fox News’ Doocy to pull one of the most revealing [...]
For two years, Barack Obama has been talking about lifting the U.S. out of a financial hole. In his second State of the Union, buoyed by recent legislative successes, his successful speech in Tucson and a brightening economic forecast, he began charting a path forward. That’s not to say the address harked back to the [...]
For those who want to read along at home, the White House has released the full text. Read it after the jump.
Over the course of the Obama administration’s two-year effort to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Attorney General Eric Holder has presided over a series of Pyrrhic victories. Today he won another, as the judge in a federal trial in Manhattan sentenced Ahmed Ghailani to life without parole for his participation in the 1998 embassy [...]
As the New York Times is now reporting, “Thousands of people calling for the end of the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak clashed with riot police in this Egyptian capital on Tuesday, on a day of some of the most serious civil unrest in recent memory here.” Alexander Marquardt, a reporter for ABC News [...]
A couple of years ago a few regular swampland commentators have created their own blog, Political Lagoon. But now, we have a swamp exchange animated so we can all hear and see — albeit in moderated, robotic tones that probably don’t reflect the writers’ inner voices — a swampland commentator debate in real time!
