In January of last year, I flew from New York to Virginia Beach to interview Rev. Pat Robertson for TIME’s 10 Questions feature. It was a somewhat surreal experience. We taped the interview on the set of The 700 Club, sitting in fancy club chairs and mugging for a non-existent audience. Robertson, who is 80, [...]
After Jared Loughner’s January shooting rampage in Tucson, gun control advocates pleaded with the Obama White House for a strong public stand in favor of tougher gun control laws. At the time, Chris Matthews, among others, reported that a “special presidential address on gun control” would be coming “in the near future.” Since then, tumbleweeds. [...]
We don’t know yet who committed the horrific murder of a family of 5 Jewish settlers at Itamar in the West Bank, but the Jerusalem Post reports that the settlers are marching on a neighboring Palestinian area, throwing rocks. That’s not good–and the murders, if it turns out they were the work of a Palestinian [...]
Finally! Except it’s not in Libya; it’s in the Ivory Coast. And it’s not enforced by the United Nations. It’s targeted at U.N. aircraft, by the illegitimate government violently clinging to power in that African country of 21 million. As is the case in Libya, the forces of the corrupt incumbent (in this case, Laurent [...]
Like a lot of putative 2012 presidential candidates, Haley Barbour is staffing up and barnstorming the country, but he’s merely announced a future announcement about whether he’ll run. Today Barbour offered a preview of what his platform would look like. In a speech at the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, the two-term Mississippi governor blasted President [...]
For those of us in the press who spend a good chunk of our time trying to pry information out of the federal government’s reflexively self-protective bureaucracy, Jan. 21, 2009 brought good news. On his first full day in office, President Obama issued a memorandum encouraging more accessibility to government information. The memo began with, [...]
Jeff Zeleny’s good story today on the GOP hopeful flags something I heard people buzzing about after Monday’s GOP 2012 forum near Des Moines (my account here): The knock on Mr. Pawlenty, according to conversations with voters, is that his speeches sound sincere but do not always sizzle. At a faith forum last week in [...]
Japanese fire-department personnel rescue a woman from the devastated city of Natori on March 13, 2011. (EPA) –The scale of tragedy and human loss in Japan is absolutely staggering. –The unfolding nuclear crisis may throw a wrench into U.S. nuclear energy policy. The last time a nuclear power plant was approved for construction in America [...]
It shouldn’t be much of a surprise that State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley has resigned his post in wake of his too-candid assessment of the incarceration conditions of suspected Wikileaker Private First Class Bradley Manning.
