To the commentariat: I know many of your posts are still getting trapped in moderation purgatory. We haven’t entered the censorship era on Swampland or hatched a plot to silence certain commenters. (Not even Karen, who our comment filter has apparently blacklisted as well.) It’s a technical glitch, and the High Sheriffs are working with …
Our colleague Elizabeth Dias files this report:
Two days ago Michelle Obama launched Let’s Move Outside! at Red Rock Canyon in Las Vegas to fight childhood obesity. This afternoon Obama faced a different desert activism outside the White House as he met with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer.
Arizona’s controversial immigration
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Dave Weigel has an interesting Q & A with Alexander Zaitchik, who’s in the midst of a publicity tour for his new Glenn Beck bio, Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance. Zaitchik, whose book evolved from the must-read profile he penned last fall on the conservative talk show host, sees Beck as less of an ideologue than a …
The widely derided “junk shot” failed. The “top kill” approach was a flop. Enter the “cut-and-cap” method. Using giant shears, BP sliced off a riser from its still-gushing Gulf of Mexico oil well Thursday morning in an attempt to place a cap over the leak and siphon oil to tankers on the surface. During a briefing in Metairie, La., …
-BP chief Tony Hayward — a guy who can seem blithely dismissive of the damage that his company has wrought — admits the obvious: the oil giant lacked proper techniques to combat a spill of this magnitude. The Post’s Peter Whoriskey surveys the potential economic impact on the Gulf economy, and the findings are not encouraging. At the …
I have a Time.com piece up on Rand Paul’s victory party last night. For a candidate who framed himself as the crusading outsider, the shindig was a pretty genteel, insider-y affair, populated more by personal connections, campaign coordinators and influential backers than Tea Party folks. (There were none of the ubiquitous “Don’t Tread …
As debate over SB1070 continues to rage, The Arizona Republic convenes a panel of experts to parse its practical applications. It should come as no surprise that when and how the controversial new law should be enforced remains open to interpretation. The five-person panel included two Arizona legislators: a Republican who sponsored the …
Bob Schieffer of CBS says that’s what sources are telling him privately about tomorrow’s Pennsylvania Senate primary. (Via Greg Sargent.)
“In all candor, I have been told on background and so forth that the White House is preparing for a Specter loss here, and that the president doesn’t want to be associated with that,” the network’s …
In a Rasmussen poll taken last month, just 11% of voters surveyed said they thought Congress was doing a good job. A March NBC/Wall Street Journal poll — held a few days before the health-care bill’s passage — found that 17% of voters supported the performance of the legislative branch. A full 50% of voters in that poll said they’d …
“The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.”
-Tony Hayward, CEO of BP, during an interview with the Guardian
President Obama blasted oil company executives today for ducking responsibility for the spill still gushing crude into the Gulf of Mexico. “I did not appreciate what I considered to be a ridiculous spectacle,” Obama said of the Congressional hearings this week. He unloading on the chiefs of BP, Transocean and Halliburton for “falling …
On the second day of hearings into the oil spill still pouring crude into the Gulf of Mexico at an alarming rate, lawmakers pointed to a faulty blowout preventer, the safety mechanism that is supposed to seal a well in the event of an accident. In a blistering assessment, Congressman Bart Stupak of the House Energy and Commerce Committee …
