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After meeting for two hours Thursday, the latest lawmakers to be tasked with solving the budget puzzle emerged from Blair House with Opening Day optimism. Vice President Joe Biden called it a “good, productive” session. “We had a good rapport develop,” said Eric Cantor, the House Majority leader. What did they accomplish? Apart from announcing [...]
Mitt Romney won’t be at the first 2012 presidential debate Thursday night, even though he is the closest thing to the field’s frontrunner. “It’s still early, the field is too unsettled and he’s not yet an announced candidate,” says Romney aide Matt Rhodes, who is already effectively running the unofficial Romney campaign.
So much for inflation hawks. The administration gets some encouraging economic news. Will it continue with tomorrow’s unemployment report?
Tonight in South Carolina, Fox News will televise something that purports to be a 2012 Republican presidential primary debate. In truth it will be an almost entirely meaningless event. After all, most of the big-name candidates who either intend to run or are thinking about it–Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Mitch Daniels, Mike Huckabee [...]
If your interest isn’t quite sated, this breakdown whipped up by Time.com’s video team is pretty compelling:
President Obama made no public remarks at Ground Zero. He carried a wreath of white flowers to a stand. Then he stood, head bowed for a time. Joining him were New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and [...]
And now, a slight change of pace. It’s been a good week so far for the Obamas. The President shellacked Donald Trump at the WH Correspondents Dinner, while Michelle Obama’s hair and dress rocked the house. Obama checked “Get bin Laden” off his to-do list for 2011. And Tuesday at Alice Deal Middle School in [...]
In political journalism, we tend to divide the electorate into three categories, though the categories often go by different names. Right, middle, left. Republican, independent, Democratic. Conservative, moderate, liberal. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC. As a short hand, the categories pass muster, but they are a poor lens for understanding what is really happening in the [...]
I’m torn between basic human curiosity, journalistic voyeurism…and my better angels, which tell me that any death photos of Osama bin Laden will make life more dangerous for the thousands of American soldiers and diplomats, as well as untold numbers of private citizens, both businesspeople and tourists, who spend time in iffy places overseas.
I imagine most writers have made the mistake of falling in love with an analogy and stretching it way past the breaking point. A sportswriter I knew long ago went on for several paragraphs comparing a man’s face to the map of Florida. I know I’ve committed this felony plenty of times. In fact, Mickey [...]
