In recent days, the assumption that Osama bin Laden should have been killed on the spot has gone almost unquestioned. Almost.
Forty-four Republican Senators sent a letter to President Obama on Thursday pledging to block any nominee, no matter merits or ideology, to head the newfangled Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created by the Democrats’ 2010 financial regulation overhaul of and set to open shop in July. Their demands? They want a check on the “unfettered authority” [...]
Indianapolis, Ind. On a swing through Indiana on Friday, Barack Obama made it clear that he still feels Americans’ gas price pain. Unlike his visit in April 2008, when he also commiserated with Hoosiers about rising costs at the pump, he didn’t blame George W. Bush or an energy policy drafted by Dick Cheney this [...]
Jane Corwin has an Internet problem. The Republican candidate in the May 24 special election in New York’s 26th Congressional District — the seat vacated by the resignation of Craigslist Congressman Chris Lee — has a sleek campaign website at janecorwin.com, which touts her business background and enumerates her endorsements. But her braintrust forgot to [...]
The Republican presidential debate in South Carolina last night didn’t exactly feature an all-star lineup, but it’s the best preview we’ve gotten so far of how the conversation will shape up in primary season. Via Kaiser Health News, here’s a nice compilation of what three of the candidates said about health care:
A CIA task force is scrambling to exploit intelligence from the computers, thumb drives and other electronic media taken at Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Sunday, racing against the clock as what remains of al-Qaeda’s loose network presumably goes to ground. The first priority, an official tells TIME, is to determine if [...]
Some fascinating reporting from Tim McGirk today on bin Laden’s fifth wife, who was living at the Abbotabad compound with her husband at the time of the raid that killed him. She is said to have been shot in the calf after rushing the Seals that burst into room where the al-Qaeda leader was holed up. [...]
The Dobsons came to Washington yesterday and hosted a gathering on Capitol Hill for the National Day of Prayer, an annual observance that President Obama officially established by proclamation earlier this week. Organizers must have lost Obama’s address, though (pssst!–1600 Pennsylvania Avenue), because Adelle Banks from Religion News Service reported that they “invited former Sen. [...]
The April jobs report is significantly better than feared: Non-farm payrolls swelled by 244,000 as the unemployment rate ticked up to 9.0%. The video of bin Laden’s burial at sea may be released. Al-Qaeda after bin Laden. He was plotting U.S. rail attacks.
There was really only one candidate on the stage at the first GOP presidential primary debate Thursday night in Greensville, South Carolina: Tim Pawlenty. Now, that may not be the case at the next one — the former two-term Minnesota governor was the only Republican A-lister who participated in this debate — but for one [...]
