From WCCO.com:
[Minnesota] Gov. Tim Pawlenty landed a 17-inch walleye Saturday during the Governor’s 60th Annual Fishing Opener at Breezy Point on Pelican Lake, but Lt. Gov. Carol Molnau reeled in a 19-inch walleye about two-and-a-half hours earlier. . . .
“I have a wife who genuinely loves to fish. I mean, she will take the lead and
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1. It has a number in the title: McCain’s 7 Steps to Beating Obama.
2. I just posted it this morning on Time.com.
3. Number One: Paint Obama as a False Messiah.
If there is only one story you can make time for today, this one gets my vote. It is by Mark Benjamin, a former colleague of mine and crackerjack investigative reporter at Salon, and Christopher Weaver. Called “Killing by the Numbers,” it tells the tale of a group of snipers who killed an unarmed Iraqi vegetable farmer named Genei Nesir …
On the occasion of John McCain’s tour of Gotham, the Democratic National Committee has a fun to read map up of all the Big Apple federal funding that McCain has opposed for being political pork. Some examples.
2006 $250,000 In The FY2006 Transportation Appropriations Bill: Williamsburg Bridge Plaza improvement, Brooklyn
2008 $282,000
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For years now, the Federal Election Commission has been, more or less, a joke, dominated by political pressures as much as clear thinking. As a result of political infighting, it does not even have enough commissioners to act on anything right now. In fact, the only action of note that anyone at the FEC has taken in the last several …
The Hill-O-Plane last night from Indiana had an odd feel to it. Just as we took off, leaving BlackBerry range, Obama was quickly closing the statewide margin in Lake County. The press corps was not convinced that Clinton had won the state, giving the whole flight a sort of deck-of-the-Titanic feel. Campaign staff never faltered in their …
I have long been fascinated by the complex gender politics at play in the Democratic primary, where a woman for the first time has the chance to win the historically macho job of president. But I have not looked closely at the topic since last summer, when surrogates used to introduce Hillary Clinton as the one who would “stand up to …
Philosophical dilemma: What is a photo-op tour without the pictures? We here at Time.com do not want anyone to go without. So here are some highlights from John McCain’s “It’s Time for Action Tour” last week, which incidentally is totally different from this week’s “Call to Action Tour.” (Hint: One has a complete sentence for a title. …
Though I would not employ the same adjectives, I just wanted to endorse Joe’s comments on the apparently shifting tone of the McCain campaign. A couple months ago, I wrote with some admiration about the “high standards” that the campaign seemed to be adopting in dealing with partisan gunslingers. As campaign manager Rick Davis wrote in …
I’ve been working in Washington D.C. for five years, but Saturday was my first experience with the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. A real horror show. My write-up, for Time.com, can be found here. It begins:
WASHINGTON — We are a sorry lot, us D.C. dwellers. Not sexy enough for Los Angeles, we settle for the pancake
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There are lots of legitimate questions that Democrats could raise to challenge John McCain about which candidate is more committed to helping impoverished Americans. Should tax relief be weighted more to the wealthy or the poor? How much should the federal government be involved in funding health care? Should there be increased spending …
I have a new story up on TIME.com about the policies behind McCain’s tour of “forgotten America.”
Also, as the Washington Post points out today, it is interesting to note how McCain is now selling tax cuts mostly for high-income Americans (and corporations) as the solution to the economic problems of low-income Americans. Just a few …
A couple weeks ago, I wrote a story about John McCain’s position on the CIA’s ongoing interrogation program. I explained the complex sequence of events that led McCain, a vocal opponent of President Bush’s interrogation program, to side with the president on a recent vote that would have required the CIA to limit its interrogation …
