Rand Paul was the sole vote (96-1) against an amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill that would make flashing laser pointers at airplanes a federal offense. He explained: “I think that it is a bad idea to point lasers at pilots,” Paul told The Daily Caller. “There are a lot of states that [...]
Next month will mark the eight-year anniversary of the Iraq war’s shock-and-awe opening. And as Egypt descends into political turmoil, the meaning of that war is getting a new assessment. But the old battle lines are familiar. Some conservatives say the fall of Saddam Hussein and the emergence of a fragile democracy in Baghdad set [...]
As Massimo notes below, we are reaching a crucial moment in the Egyptian convulsion. There is a major demonstration scheduled for tomorrow–and a major question: which way does the army go, for Mubarak or for the protesters? We’ve been here before. We’ve seen the tanks stand down, as they did in Moscow in 1991–when Boris [...]
President Hosni Mubarak apparently told ABC’s Chrisiane Amanpour today that he’s fed up with leadership and would step down if he could, but that he fears for his country’s safety. Mubarak and his son Gamal, who had been rumored to have left the country, met with Amanpour at the Presidential palace in the Heliopolis neighborhood [...]
TIME’s Andrew Lee Butters files this report from Cairo: The Egyptian government denies that it had anything to do with orchestrating attacks against democracy protesters by crowds supporting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. But during my attempt to reach the protests, it became clear not only that the police are doing nothing to stop groups of [...]
In 1924, the U.S. Congress passed a law that created a quota for the number of immigrants that could be admitted to the U.S. from any given country. The math worked out like this: Between 1924 and 1927, the annual number of immigrants from any nation could not exceed 2 percent of the number of [...]
Ever since they pledged to cut spending by $100 billion during their first year in control of the House, Republican leaders have slowly backpedaled away from that promise. For one thing, it was never entirely precise; the figure was measured against President Obama’s 2011 budget, which was never adopted. (As a result, the government is [...]
