Bill Saporito draws the contrast:
…Wall Streeters absolutely love poker. The big tournaments in Vegas are filled with quants, bankers, traders and other Street beasts. Puritan Preet’s raid on Internet poker sites in a country where gambling is legal in all 50 states, where governments are pushing their own lottery games every day,
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“So Michael, what are you doing? Explain. Are you going to do another trash article on Trump?”
This is how Donald Trump greeted me when I entered his Fifth Avenue office last week. It was, to be clear, an entirely friendly …
I really should have warned Jay before she headed into the hornet’s nest that is debate over funding for Planned Parenthood. There’s a lot of heated rhetoric and misinformation and spin surrounding the issue, so it’s worth taking a look at some of the main questions.
Do Federal Funds to Planned Parenthood Cover Abortion …
“I have cautioned our caucus from hyperbole,” Republican Senator Bob Corker told TIME last April. “It’s an intellectual lift to work your way through [financial reform]… Unfortunately it gets debated in pretty broad statements.”
He was commenting on, though not outright rejecting, Republicans’ charge that the “resolution authority” …
The Army’s top spokesman, Maj. Gen. Stephen R. Lanza, wrote TIME Managing Editor Rick Stengel on April 1, alleging I had committed an “omission of fact” in my recent article about the burial scandal at Arlington National Cemetery.
The problem, according to Lanza, is that I had ignored the notion that, by law, the Army cannot dig up …
Cairo
A few days ago, I vented on the pathetic nature of the Republican Party’s presidential field for 2012, as seen from overseas. And now, again reading the US newspapers from abroad, I’m amazed by the greed-soaked myopia of the “enlightened” business community, in the persons of two of Barack Obama’s favorite business guys, Jamie …
“This is not something we can sweep under the rug and say, you know, we’ve done the best we can. This is not that kind of problem.”
Those were the words of Missouri Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill, speaking on the Senate floor Thursday. She was referring to revelations in my recent TIME article about the mushrooming burial …
From the files of “Things That Would Be Different With More Women in Politics”:
Republican members of the Florida House of Representatives chastised a Democratic colleague today for uttering the word ‘uterus’ on the House floor during debate. Not that it should matter, but the context was a titillating discussion about deregulation. …
That’s what would happen if Congress pares back appropriations for USAID, says Rajiv Shah:
“We estimate, and I believe these are very conservative estimates, that H.R. 1 would lead to 70,000 kids dying,” USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah testified before the House Appropriations State and Foreign Ops subcommittee.
“Of that 70,000,
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In the words of a prominent Israeli:
The Obama Doctrine: He only goes if the entire world, including the Arab League, wants him to go.
The Bush Doctrine: He only goes if the entire world, except the British, doesn’t want him to go.
Tahrir Square comes to Palestine.
Hebron
The biggest question in the Middle East peace non-process right now is whether Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority President, is more interested in making peace with the Israelis or reconciling with Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza. The Israelis say it must be one or the other.
For the past several years, …
Reuters Mark Hosenball reported Wednesday that President Obama has authorized secret CIA support for Libyan rebels fighting Muammar Gaddafi. The New York Times went further, saying “The Central Intelligence Agency has inserted clandestine operatives into Libya to gather intelligence for military airstrikes and make contacts with rebels …
