President Obama shakes hands with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush at Miami Central Senior High School on March 4. (REUTERS/Jason Reed) –The Wall Street Journal reports Wisconsin Democrats may be ready to return to the fold. Other Dems say not o fast. There’s also some talk of Republican defections. –Labor’s decision to cede everything but [...]
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I had my hands full with some editing for a couple weeks and was therefore off the blog, so I’m somewhat late to join the interesting conversation about whether Mitt Romney should apologize for stewarding a universal health care plan into law when he was governor of Massachusetts. One provocative line of analysis holds that [...]
It’s striking, though not surprising, how politicians often decide to harness the bully pulpit when they’re about to relinquish it. Back in December, when a snowstorm postponed an Eagles game, outgoing Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell sounded off about how the U.S. had “become a nation of wusses,” at risk of losing front-runner status. Via the [...]
First Barack Obama grew up in Kenya as a Mau Mau rebellion sympathizer, then, no, it’s just that Obama is more familiar with madrasas than the boy scouts (funny thing: Obama was a boy scout and, growing up, he was undoubtedly more familiar with the concept of luaus than madrasas) and now it’s Natalie Portman having [...]
For any kind of camel trader, used car salesman or politician the first bid in a negotiation is rarely the number they actually expect to get. Some suckers may agree to pay that price, but most people bargain. House Speaker John Boehner’s first bid was $32 billion in cuts, a number his freshmen laughed at. [...]
TIME’s Tony Karon explains: At a recent event, former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, who was President Clinton’s U.N. Ambassador at the time the MEK was added to the “terrorist” list, said Iranians’ “thirst for freedom and democracy” required that it be taken off the list. Former Joint Chiefs chairman General Hugh Shelton said that [...]
Donald Trump, America’s most pretend presidential candidate, puts on a workshop explaining why his divorces won’t be a liability in the campaign he won’t run: “But one of the reasons I was divorced is because I worked very hard,” he said. “And, you know, that’s a good reason. But I worked very, very hard building [...]
So rules Florida’s Supreme Court. The decision, reprinted in full after the jump, is just one page long and succinctly notes that there’s absolutely nothing that prevents Governor Scott from declining federal rail dollars. The suit filed by state senators Thad Altman, a Republican, and Arthenia Joyner, a Democrat, basically argued that Scott overreached by turning [...]
A few days ago, I casually–too casually–suggested that a no-fly zone over Libya might not be a bad idea if Muammar Qaddafi started using air power against his people. It’s still possible that a no-fly zone might be a good idea, but the decision deserves a lot more informed consideration than I gave it. As [...]
