In dead-tree TIME this week, Jay and I will have a story on Hillary Clinton’s strategy for dealing with the new challenge she faces from Barack Obama. Meanwhile, I’ll be heading down to South Carolina this morning, so that I can see all the Democratic candidates being put through their paces at tonight’s debate, tomorrow night’s …
In the continuing back and forth between Henry Waxman and the RNC comes a letter to Waxman from RNC lawyers containing “the current list of users who we believe are or were White House employees using RNC accounts for whom we have been able to identify active e-mail data on operational RNC servers”:
A Waxman aide tells me the …
Rahm Emanuel’s office has put out excerpts of the speech that he plans to give at Brookings this morning, one that is being touted as the first shot in the Democrats’ effort to put the various Bush Administration scandals into broader–and darker–context. These are themes you are likely to be hearing a lot:
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For the first time ever, Toyota tops GM worldwide sales for the quarter. John Edwards is the first to jump on the issue, but I suspect we will be hearing more about it from the other candidates.
P.S.: Mr. Swamp, who just last year traded in our (still running) 1988 Camry for a new one, won’t be surprised.
UPDATE: To Ama and Atothek and …
Tom Hamburger of the LA Times reports a new and potentially significant investigation by a normally obscure federal office, one that is looking at whether the nexus of the various scandals of the day might be at the White House. Hamburger writes:
The new investigation, which will examine the firing of at least one U.S. attorney,
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I found today’s Washington Post story on John Edwards and his ties to the New York hedge fund operator Fortress Investment Group far more interesting than all the coverage of where he gets his hair cut. But then, he is far from alone. When investment outfits hire these politicians who are not known to have anything that resembles …
Here at Swampland, we know that our commenters have lives as well as attitudes. Over at Trifecta’s blog Newpairodimes, we have been following the difficult pregnancy of Mrs. Trifecta. We are delighted to announce that everything is, finally, just fine. Virtual cigars all around.
UPDATE: Added the bloglink. Thanks, Paul.
Our blogging cousin Justin Fox at the Curious Capitalist, visiting from New York, finds the bureau chief in a typical posture.
Now I know how those paper targets at the gun range feel.
Responding to Jay’s post below, commenter correctionrequest asks for a correction of something I wrote yesterday after having read the following in Media Matters:
In an April 17 post on the magazine’s Swampland weblog, Time’s Tumulty described as “radical” a policy position —
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As always when the unimaginable happens, we struggle to find the lesson here: Could it have been prevented by more gun control? Tighter campus security? Better law enforcement? But the more we learn about this tragedy and its perpetrator, the more it seems to defy any big answer. I was struck by this wise essay in the University of …
In another post, commenter rmarin makes the argument:
According to an IANSA report published in 2006, gun-related incidents result in 300,000 fatalities and one million injuries worldwide every year. Many of those guns come from the U.S.
Mexican authorities reported that 80 percent of guns in the country came from the U.S., 50 percent
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Who knew? Tommy Thompson tells Politico he was farmatert.
This from Haaretz:
WASHINGTON – Former Wisconsin governor and Republican presidential hopeful Tommy Thompson told Jewish activists Monday that making money is “part of the Jewish tradition,” and something that he applauded.
Speaking to an audience at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism in Washington D.C., Thompson said that,
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