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The last time Newt Gingrich attended the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa, he brought with him his traveling side show of policy lecturers. With workshops titled “Green Conservatism & Biodiversity,” “Finding a Cure for Alzheimer’s” and “A 21st Century Social Security System for Young Americans,” his team didn’t exactly steal the show. But Gingrich wasn’t [...]
–President Obama, giving his interpretation of Republicans’ border security policy prescriptions in El Paso, Texas.
As I noted this morning, health care reform made another court appearance today. A three-judge panel in the Fourth Circuit heard arguments for and against the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate. The appellate court, reviewing two district court decisions, is just one more stop on the way to the Supreme Court, which [...]
The President and the Texas governor, who have taken public shots at one another before, won’t cross paths during Obama’s visit to the Lone Star State. But each camp says it was the other’s choice. From today’s White House press gaggle aboard Air Force One:
New York Senator Chuck Schumer says he wants tighter security measures for U.S. railways, but Americans aren’t all aboard.
Even before Osama bin Laden got whacked, some smart people declared that 2012 election would be a crashing bore because Barack Obama is likely to coast to re-election. I don’t think it’s so obvious. But even if we do see a dreary, 1996-style general election, the Republican primary promises to be fascinating. That’s not just [...]
I agree with Les Gelb’s assessment that we can be out of most combat operations in Afghanistan by the beginning of 2013. (In fact, I made a similar proposal last January.) Here’s how it would work:
Halperin reports the putative Republican frontrunner will address his Achilles’ heel Thursday in Michigan. Sort of:
The fact that Donald Trump’s name sells stuff is no surprise. (Trump Steaks, anyone?) But who would have guessed that Trump reentry into politics could have been so immediately commodified by the online press? In fact, coverage of Trump’s political ambitions has quite literally become a money-making opportunity for the right’s online news hubs.
A little over a year ago, I visited the town of Senjaray in Kandahar Province and reported on the remarkable, but seemingly futile, efforts of an U.S. rifle company from the 4th Infantry Division, led by Captain Jeremiah Ellis, to reopen a school that had been closed and booby-trapped by the Taliban. I’ve been following [...]
