This post isn’t about politics or swine flu or TARP funds or torture–just old-fashioned hometown pride. Right now the most-read article on Time.com is about a Michigan high school senior who notched perfect scores on the SAT, ACT, and PSAT. I’ve been focusing on more depressing education news in my home state recently, so I clicked on …
After more than three weeks of recounts and confusion, Republican Jim Tedisco has conceded the special election for the NY-20 seat, giving Democrats a 255-178 majority in Congress and the all-powerful Murphy Caucus a fourth member.
It’s been a topsy-turvy year so far for Kansas anti-abortion activists. Their efforts to prevent Governor Kathleen Sebelius from becoming HHS Secretary fell short (she’s expected to be confirmed by the Senate Finance Committee tomorrow). But that also means the woman they describe as “the most pro-abortion governor” is no longer in a …
I’m so easily distracted that this could easily become a regular feature. News and information gets so swiftly consumed, digested and forgotten these days that if I wait a few days to comment on an article, it feels like old news. But that’s absurd and a good way to ensure that quality journalism gets overlooked.
So even though it …
See, Michael? Inflammatory headlines drive traffic and they’re fun!
Following up on Rick Warren’s cancellation of an interview with George Stephanopoulos, Dan Gilgoff learns that while the pastor was indeed exhausted from the marathon schedule of services Saddleback Church runs during Holy Week, there was something else that left him …
Like Dana Stevens, I was struck by the fact that Elizabeth Cousins, the 16-year-old single mother in this New York Times slideshow, decided against abortion because her friends told her this could be her last chance to get pregnant. (Her daughter is 19 months, which makes Cousins either 14 or a young 15 when she conceived.) Explains …
ABC’s “This Week” began Sunday with this announcement from a slightly miffed George Stephanopoulos: “For those of you tuning in this morning expecting to hear from Pastor Rick Warren, we were too. But the pastor’s representatives canceled moments before the scheduled interview, saying that Mr. Warren is sick from exhaustion.”
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The White House closely guarded the secret of where the Obamas would worship for Easter this morning. But it was only to make sure that the church wasn’t swamped by gawkers, not because there’s any significance in their selection. Actually, that’s not true. The fact that they went right across Lafayette Park (well, technically, they got …
I’d missed this until now, but apparently the trustworthy folks at Newsmax have been circulating a report claiming that the Obama administration has submitted three separate ambassadorial candidates to the Vatican for approval and each has been rejected for being “insufficiently pro-life.”
You’ll be shocked to learn this is not true. …
Step aside, Silvio Berlusconi! We have a winner. Whoo boy. Where to start with this?
A North Texas legislator during House testimony on voter identification legislation said Asian-descent voters should adopt names that are “easier for Americans to deal with.”
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Let it not be said that we don’t do our part to bring you news large and small from the White House. To wit: this year’s souvenir Easter egg has just been made public–and according to the White House press release, it’s “the ‘greenest’ egg in White House Easter Egg Roll history.”
Of course the White House could get the greenest egg …
There’s a fantastic piece over at The New Republic today looking into Silvio Berlusconi’s, ahem, colorful turns of phrase and less-than-diplomatic behavior. The Italian prime minister’s remark this week telling citizens who lost their homes in the Abruzzo earthquake that they should consider their time in aid camps “a weekend of camping” …
I might as well just admit that I think it’s quite cool that the White House now has a vegetable garden–and beehives!–on the grounds. But what strikes me most about the whole enterprise is that Michelle Obama appears to have adopted a whole class of 5th graders at Bancroft Elementary School in D.C. According to the White House schedule …
