The White House has just put out this announcement:
President Obama to Visit Landstuhl Regional Medical Facility in Germany
The President will visit wounded warriors and their families at Landstuhl Regional Medical Facility in Germany on June 5, 2009. Landstuhl supports our service men and women stationed in Europe, and
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The credit card reform law that President Obama signed on Friday will force these guys to better disclose the fact that the “free” credit reports they offer are not actually free. For an actual free credit report, as required by federal law, go to AnnualCreditReport.com.
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Speaking of that Peter Baker piece in the upcoming NYT Sunday Mag, his colleague David Leonhardt deconstructs the part of the interview where Clinton talks about his economic record, and deems Clinton “impressively honest” about the role his decisions played in creating our current situation, though less so in his depiction of the growth …
My arch-enemies at Newsweek’s newish Gaggle blog note the early posting this morning of Peter Baker’s What-Has-Become-Of-Bill Opus, which will be published in print this Sunday in the New York Times Magazine. The former president, it turns out, remains very much the same, though he seems to have traded the pure stuff for something more …
In praise of Robert Gates.
The White House announced this evening that Obama has nominated Dr. Miguel Díaz, a Catholic theologian and scholar, to serve as ambassador to the Vatican. It’s an interesting pick on several different levels. The U.S. and the Holy See have only had formal diplomatic relations since 1984, and in those 25 years, most of the ambassadors …
I suppose there’s no more perfect storm than a loggorheic ideological narcissist with a twitter account. But ladies and gentlemen, I give you…Newt Gingrich, who has twitually accused Sonia Sotomayor of racism, just as he twitually accused the President of being soft on pirates a few hours before the President got very hard on pirates a …
When the bell rings, some people just can’t stop themselves from salivating, despite the warning that Joe Klein mentions below. And that is why Democratic pollsters and strategists are smiling this afternoon.
The nomination of Sonia Sotomayor has caused two general reactions among Republicans: Elected officials, who know all about the …
Since my fellow religion writers are all over the question of what it would mean if six of the nine Supreme Court justices are Catholics, I should probably expand on my initial three sentence analysis.
I still think it’s unlikely that Judge Sotomayor will face the same kinds of protests and charges of being a “bad Catholic” that we’ve …
As our colleague Alice Park wrote yesterday, one of the questions surrounding the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor involves the fact that she suffers from Type 1 diabetes:
The nominee’s chronic condition is worth noting, since it puts her at increased risk of several serious medical conditions, including heart disease, kidney
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From our friends at the C-SPAN Video Library, this clip of Sonia Sotomayor in action last December 9, in oral arguments in Arar v. Ashcroft.
All twelve …
The Republican Party decides not to go berserk over Sonia Sotomayor? As Mark McKinnon says in the Daily Beast:
Let’s face it, Sotomayor is a political trifecta. Woman. Hispanic. Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval from George H. W. Bush.
Yes, Mitch McConnell has to make his pro forma gestures about doing due diligence. And it is
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Illinois Sen. Roland Burris came out today to announce that the recently released FBI transcript of a phone call he had with the brother of fallen Gov. Rod Blagojevich–in which Burris offered to raise money for the governor through his lawyer to hide his tracks while begging for U.S. Senate appointment–should “set the record straight …