It’s still not clear if House Republicans and President Obama will take their showdown all the way to a shutdown, but in case you can’t wait to watch it play out… (h/t Jessica Taylor)
–Paul Ryan rolls out his 2012 budget + entitlement reform + tax reform package today with a Journal op-ed, press conference and midday speech at the American Enterprise Institute. He’s billing it as a “path to prosperity,” and citing some mighty, um, optimistic numbers from the conservative Heritage Foundation: A study just released by the [...]
The New York Times is reporting this morning that the chaos in Yemen has forced the Yemeni military to stand down in its counterterrorism efforts against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula–and that AQAP has stepped up its planning for another major attack. Two of the most recent Al Qaeda efforts–Undiebomber and the explosive-packed printer [...]
Vice President Joe Biden gave a heartfelt, hour-long speech at the University of New Hampshire today. The topic was sexual violence, and the occasion was the unveiling of new guidance to go along with Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex discrimination, that spells out responsibilities that all federally-funded schools have when [...]
Liberals have long-bemoaned Obama’s transformation from would-be demolisher of Bush’s “War On Terror” architecture to its most effective buttress. Faced with a concerted Republican onslaught on the issue from the earliest days of his presidency, Obama chose to husband his political capital for higher priorities like health care reform and the mid-term elections and never [...]
The Army’s top spokesman, Maj. Gen. Stephen R. Lanza, wrote TIME Managing Editor Rick Stengel on April 1, alleging I had committed an “omission of fact” in my recent article about the burial scandal at Arlington National Cemetery. The problem, according to Lanza, is that I had ignored the notion that, by law, the Army [...]
“We need to arm the Libyan people to finish this regime.” That was the assessment of Ali Aujali, a former Libyan Ambassador to the United States who has defected from the Gaddafi regime and now represents the country’s “Transitional National Council.” Appearing today at the Center for American Progress, Aujali pleaded for sustained American assistance in [...]
Perhaps TIME’s most memorable cover of 2010 featured the image of an Afghan woman who’d had her nose sliced off by the Taliban, with the cover line, “What Happens if We Leave Afghanistan.” The story was a reminder that it’s women who could suffer the most if the Taliban, with its primitive cultural mores, was [...]
If you’ve had this nagging feeling that political oration just isn’t what it used to be — that speeches today are more about branding than poetry, more about drilling a message than articulating a truth, more about speaking to the lowest common denominator than about the potential heights of humanity — you’ll likely find a [...]
