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Former Sen. John Edwards
Elsewhere on TIME.com, my colleague Adam Zagorin writes that an influential group of conservatives is now demanding that the AG go. Pertinent quotes from their letter assert: “Mr. Gonzales has presided over an unprecedented crippling of the Constitution’s time-honored checks and balances. He has brought rule of law into disrepute, and …
Today is the deadline for the campaigns to file the detailed breakdowns of their first-quarter fundraising and spending. Some have done it in the last 72 hours or so, and in the first analysis (there will be much more in coming days as reporters and watchdog groups dig into the fine print), we are learning some interesting things:
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Our prayers and thoughts are with Governor Corzine, and we are rooting for him to pull through this as quickly as possible. This report also provides a reminder that it’s important–and in most places, state law–to take that extra second to strap yourself in when you are going anywhere.
I had been trying to decide whether I should respond to all the comments regarding my post the other day about Hillary Clinton’s website and its appeal for support of the Rutgers women’s basketball team, which had stirred up some dust from the folks at Media Matters. I was leaning against engaging on this one, until a friend from …
Over at The Curious Capitalist, our blogging cousin Justin Fox has his take on whether the Wolf-man should be following the I-man to satellite radio. He also has an item on the dog-reincarnation news that landed in my e-mailbox as well last night. You get to meet all kinds of interesting people here in Washington, but I must admit the …
CBS Radio just announced it is firing Imus, “effective immediately, on a permanent basis,” according to the CBS News Alert that just landed in my e-mailbox. How long until Sirius picks him up?
Iraq-War-Architect-turned-World-Bank-President Paul Wolfowitz apologizes for helping his girlfriend get a job at the State Department where she makes $10,000 more than Condi Rice. The Financial Times, among others, thinks he should resign.
Over the past decade or so, abortion opponents have been extraordinarily shrewd in picking their fights. By waging the abortion debate around issues like parental consent, where public opinion is on their side, they have managed to enact scores of new restrictions in just about every state in the country. I wrote about this at length …
Over at Slate, our former TIME colleague John Dickerson writes that John McCain’s speech today may indeed have been a turning point:
What’s new here is obviously not McCain’s unhedged support for the war. He’s talked about that at length. What makes this speech different is the full-force, no-caveats attack on his opponents. It went
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MSNBC fires him, and his advertisers are jumping ship. Will WFAN and CBS follow? Dead-tree TIME will have more to say on this controversy.
Hmmm…and right next to that Respect for Rutgers/”Send a Message” link on her website is a big red one that says CONTRIBUTE. Sisterhood is powerful.
UPDATE: Those Clinton people are quick–and obviously close followers of this blog. Mere minutes after posting this, I got a call from Phil Singer over at the Clinton campaign, who wants …
He has put up his own blogpost on the subject of his health, which includes his doctor’s statement.
