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“Even though it’s Facebook, no poking the President,” warned Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook just moments before President Obama made his live, streaming social network debut at the company’s Palo Alto headquarters. In Facebook parlance, a “poke” is a good thing– a flirt, a show of support, a friendly nudge. For the [...]
In his latest introductory story about the GOP presidential contenders, Jeff Zeleny writes up the prospect of Jon Huntsman joining the 2012 Republican fray. The candidacy of (in Zeleny’s words) “a motorcycle-riding, keyboard-playing, Mandarin-speaking Mormon”–and one serving until April 30 in the Obama administration, as U.S. ambassador to China–would certainly be entertaining. It would also [...]
Concord, New Hampshire If it walks like a presidential candidate — visiting Iowa, South Carolina and, today, Concord, New Hampshire to kiss babies and pose for photos — and talks like a presidential candidate – “I’m sitting here at [the famed political Mecca] Barley House answering your questions – how could I not be serious?” [...]
The Japan nuclear disaster has inspired a lot of speculation about the implications for the American nuclear renaissance. The short answer is that the implications are not very good, especially since, as some of us have been pointing out for quite some time, the American nuclear renaissance is a myth. The math just doesn’t add [...]
On a day when Joe Biden clearly expresses the White House view that Libya should be a primarily European-led NATO responsibility, former United Nations ambassador and unabashed neocon hawk John Bolton is warning that President Obama’s unwillingness to unleash shock and awe there is leading to a dangerous “quagmire.” Whereas Les Gelb largely bemoaned this [...]
–Donald Trump in a 1990 interview with Playboy magazine.
Last year, an FAA work group reported on Air Traffic Controller fatigue. The group recommended “increasing the time between shifts to provide controllers adequate opportunity to obtain sufficient sleep,” according to a National Transportation Safety Board review of the report released last January. The work group’s recommendations weren’t implemented.
PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, two of the three sites shuttered in a Department of Justice crackdown on online gambling, will be allowed to reclaim their domain names in order to refund money to players, according to the DOJ.
Republican gains in last November’s Congressional elections were minor compared to the rout the party engineered in statehouses around the U.S. The GOP won a net gain of nearly 700 state-legislature seats on Nov. 2, wresting away control of 19 chambers. It was the biggest landslide in decades, dwarfing the “Republican revolution” of 1994. “As [...]
The New York Times Magazine will run a remarkable profile Sunday about President Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. Adapted from reporter Janny Scott’s book, “A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother,” it shows, in short, how much good reporting can shed new light on well-trod ground.
