Over at the Curious Capitalist, Justin Fox tells us:
The long-awaited end of the Great American Job Destruction of 2008 and 2009 did not arrive in December, as some forecasters hoped it might, as the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported another 85,000-job decline in nonfarm payroll employment this morning. The BLS did revise
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Although the battle over passing health reform is being waged here in Washington, the front lines for implementing whatever passes will be the states. In the new issue of the print magazine, Kate Pickert and I look at what that means.
The latest evidence of the Governors’ growing concern about what lies ahead came in the State of the …
Kay Bailey Hutchison has bought 30 seconds of ad time during the Most Important Event of the Week.
At least, it is in my house. HOOK ‘EM HORNS!
UPDATE: Wayne Slater has photos of KBH and her nemesis Rick Perry during their college days.
UPDATE2: What have we come to? Liberal bloggers have to step in for two governors who are …
Remember this promise by candidate Barack Obama during the presidential campaign?:
But the last point I want to make has to do with how we’re going to actually get this plan done. You know, Ted Kennedy said that he is confident that we will get universal health care with me as president, and he’s been working on it longer than I
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There’s more and more talk that the House and Senate will bypass a formal conference committee entirely, and instead, work out the differences between their two versions of the health bill in the leaders’ offices, a process that would involve only a handful of key committee chairmen. That closed-door shortcut of the normal process has …
Except he apparently didn’t know it.
Over at the New Republic, Anthony Wright explains.
I am shocked and saddened to learn today of the sudden death of Deborah Howell. She was a source of inspiration, having made her way up in this business at a time when the newsroom was hostile territory for women who didn’t want to spend their careers writing wedding announcements. Because of her, it was a lot easier for those of us who …
Try as I might to keep my string going, I could find no photos of Richard Nixon celebrating the New Year. Except for this one, which really doesn’t count, because it’s Chinese New Year.
But we do have this one of how the shamans of Peru are marking the occasion. (For more of an explanation, go to our White House Photo Blog.)
Lynn Sweet has identified a new verb (gerund? participle?) to enter the official lexicon. At moments like this, we miss William Safire.
President Obama is now calling what happened on Christmas Day a “systemic failure.” In the cover story of the new issue of dead-tree TIME, Michael Duffy and Mark Thompson tell us what we can learn from Flight 253. And Amanda Ripley explores how regular people turn into heroes at times like this.
UPDATE: A number of Swampland …
Once lost, credibility is a difficult thing to get back. Especially when you hold a position where the public’s safety rides on your instincts and reflexes in a crisis.
The Homeland Security Secretary this morning is trying to walk back yesterday’s bone-headed assertion that the “system worked” in the near-miss that allowed a bomber …
Our friends over at FactCheck.org have come up with this list of the biggest lies of 2009. So tell us, Swampland commenters, what would make your list?
