The Correspondents’ dinner is still wreaking a little havoc with my head. Will get to your questions ASAP.
Speaking of the dinner: Yes, a good friend (best friend, really) and I had a lengthy, animated, and basically serious conversation with Justice Scalia at the Vanity Fair party after the dinner. We discussed the partial birth …
TotT is a daily rundown of campaign events, compiled by Katie Rooney.
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is keeping it local today, delivering his postponed foreign policy speech from last week to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs at the Fairmont Chicago Hotel at 11 a.m. This isn’t the first time Obama’s made this speech to the group — he …
Greg Sargent rightly points out that Hillary is not the only front-runner whose negatives suggest otherwise:
Hillary Clinton: Definitely would, 27%; Would consider, 26%; Definitely would not, 45%
John McCain: Definitely would, 12%; Would consider, 39%; Definitely would not, 47%
As you can see, McCain has edged higher than Hillary in
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Now that’s what I call resume-padding:
When Morgan Freeman comes over to greet Obama, the senator begins bowing down both hands in worship. “This guy was president before I was,” says Obama, referring to Freeman’s turn in Deep Impact and, clearly, getting a little ahead of his own bio. Next, a nod to Bruce Almighty: “This guy was God
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These are not the emails you’re looking for.
UPDATE: Yeah, this is all dead tree and whatnot.
John Podhoretz steps in to show that the NRO’s Corner is not the moral wasteland John Derbyshire would have you believe:
The notion that a human being or group of human beings holding no weapon whatever should somehow “fight back” against someone calmly executing other people right in front of their eyes is ludicrous beyond belief,
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Josh Tyrangiel, the with-it whiz kid who is going to save Time from dead tree hell, tells me that we will soon (-ish) be adding video to the Swamp. One idea for incorporating this new fangled technology is to have it be a Q&A between you, the citizens of the commentsphere, and us, your humble correspondents. It would work like this: We …
What’s the senate hearing version of the “mercy rule”?
Here’s where it would have made sense:
Feinstein: “You’re testifying to us that you made these decisions without ever looking at the performance records?”
Gonzales: “Yes.”
I mean, game over, right? The next sentence out of Gonzales’ mouth should have been, “And on that note, I …
I’m not going to attempt to live-blog, as I can’t possibly keep up with all the spectacular senatorial fury that’s being laid down on Alberto (who now looks like he’s passing a kidney stone).
But I’ll try to drop in for highlights. Favorite so far: Specter makes a snarky remark about how, “I know you’ve prepared thoroughly for this …
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Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) starts the day off in D.C., giving a major policy speech at noon entitled “The New American Prosperity: Innovation and Energy Independence in the 21st Century.” Dodd will unveil his …
Alberto Gonzales is listening to Leahy’s bill of particulars with an expression on his face like he’s trying to read something from very far away. And the something he’s trying to read carries unpleasant news. Maybe it’s the Constitution?
UPDATE: He’s now reading the Federalist papers or something, as his expression has soured even …
Please keep your “have the same amount of experience” jokes to yourself and revel in the possibilities:
A Hibatchi Hibachi in every pot! High altitude tents covered by Medicare! Supreme Court justices determined by three-pointer contests! At the very least, I like to think they’d avoid stupid wars.
UPDATE: Thanks to Chris R. for the …
Katie Rooney with an update on campaign responses to the Virginia Tech murders.
All of the presidential candidates with events scheduled today have either canceled or postponed them and most have released public statements regarding yesterday’s fatal shootings on the Virginia Tech campus. Here’s what the candidates have to say about the …
