Washington’s Weekend Festivities
Elsewhere on time.com, I have a short walk-up story about tomorrow’s Restoring Honor rally at the Lincoln Memorial. You can read it here.
Elsewhere on time.com, I have a short walk-up story about tomorrow’s Restoring Honor rally at the Lincoln Memorial. You can read it here.
Speaking of Bobby Bright, he’s taken the same tack as Sandlin in his latest campaign ad.
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Researching a piece I’m doing on Bright’s race, I came across this quote, from Bright’s Republican opponent, Martha Roby: “Our congressman voted for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House. How …
Being a legacy candidate is a blessing and a curse. For Ben Quayle, it must have been daunting to plunge into politics knowing he had almost zero shot of climbing to the heights reached by his father–even if his father’s defining moment may have been misspelling “potato”–and that any success he achieved would be written off by skeptics …
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A federal jury in Chicago has convicted former Ill. Governor Rod Blagojevich on a single count of lying to federal agents. That charge was the only one of 24 counts, which included allegations that Blagojevich tried to sell Barack Obama’s old Senate seat, on which the jury reached a verdict. After 14 days of deliberation, the 12 jurors …
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This election cycle has been awash in oddball campaign ads, from Alan Grayson’s summer blockbuster-themed spot to Rick Barber’s Tea Party seance to anything involving Alabama ag commissioner candidate Dale Peterson. Today’s entrant in the genre comes …
Our colleague Elizabeth Dias files this report:
If you’ve followed the illegal immigration controversy in Arizona, you’ll be familiar with the state’s hard-edged Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is famous for dressing inmates in pink underwear and for boasting an all-female chain gang. Loved by conservatives, hated by immigrant-rights groups,
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–The Pentagon has asked WikiLeaks to return the 15,000 Afghan war documents it has so far declined to publish.
–At a Ford plant in Chicago, President Obama touts he success of the auto industry bailout.
–Josh Green sizes up the Democrats’ “supersurrogate.”
–Christopher Beam finds the anti-incumbency …
So says Dan Maes, a Colorado Republican vying to capture the party’s Aug. 10 gubernatorial primary. According to the Denver Post, Maes is cautioning voters that an effort to boost bike riding promoted by Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper–the leading Democratic candidate for governor–is a nefarious scheme propagated by the Democrat’s U.N. …
From (not too deep inside) TIME’s vault, here’s a quick look at how Oval Office occupants have celebrated–from FDR’s gaudy shindigs to Marilyn Monroe’s sultry serenade of JFK.
Early reports on Tuesday primaries in Missouri, Kansas and Michigan all had essentially the same theme: Where is everyone? Granted, voter turnout for primaries isn’t expected to match the grand standard of presidential elections, but the tales trickling in were still uninspiring. “It was a ghost town in Farmington Hills Precinct 4,” …
As Arizona’s SB1070 fans the fiery debate over immigration, Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell has joined several Senate Republicans to endorse a Congressional review of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause, which automatically accords citizenship to any child born in the U.S., regardless of parental immigration status. “I think we ought to …