In the cable news game, there is rarely any reason to stand down. The more the fight, the better the ratings. But there is one guy that television gasbags cannot defeat, no matter how they may exclaim, proclaim or defame. That guy is Jon Stewart. On Friday, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann bowed before the master, and [...]
. . . Well not entirely new. But it was notable, in light of the apparent collapse of his major legislative initiative this week. From the top of his Town Hall today, at the Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio. (In his opening statement, he used a variation of the word “fight” 20 times.) [...]
At the end of the last post, I asked Swampland’s informed and argumentative throng to weigh in with its take on what went wrong for Obama in his first year. The answers are varied, and worth reading. What follows is not a complete reprinting, but includes the best responses so far. (Keep ‘em coming in [...]
In a new story up on Time.com, I run through some of the working theories, and argue that they each contain a bit of truth. 1. The challenges were just too big for any one man. The thinking here is pretty straightforward: Obama was not elected Emperor. He was elected President, subject to the onerous [...]
We just got a photo at the DC Bureau of Swampland’s own Jay Newton-Small reporting in Haiti. Jay wrote about this scene, which deteriorated after the shutter snapped, in this story here.
Though less famous than his speech at the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From A Birmingham Jail” may best define his legacy as one of America’s great moral leaders. He wrote it in April of 1963 to repudiate the calls of eight white church leaders, in a document titled “A Call For Unity,” [...]
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has endorsed a plan, drawn up by a commission led by fellow Shiite Ahmed Chalabi, that would disqualify 500 candidates from upcoming elections, including many leading Sunni politicians. As the Los Angeles Times reports, The decision by the Accountability and Justice Commission to bar the candidates has revived Sunni-Shiite sectarian [...]
Scott Horton, writing in Harper’s, makes a long, circumstantial case that there was a cover-up in 2006 at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. In short, Horton points to the possibility that three well-publicized suicides on the base were in fact homicides that resulted from interrogation. The story lacks an eye-witness, or a smoking gun. But [...]
The pressure is intense in Massachusetts, and the stakes could not be higher for all Democrats. But Martha Coakley and the Democratic Party have begun to push the boundaries of fair play. Here is what we have gotten in the last week from Democrats who are trying to tarnish Scott Brown’s reputation among women voters: [...]
