From Slate‘s Tom Scocca:
I just wanted to reach out and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider the possibility that you might not really know, given the contradictions between your husband’s testimony and Anita Hill’s, which of the two of them was lying under oath back in 1991. Give it some thought, and try to
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I missed this yesterday, but according to new campaign finance reports the Houston-based housing mogul Bob Perry, best known in politics for his support of the 2004 anti-John Kerry Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, has donated at least $11 million this year to independent Republican campaign groups operating under section 527 of the tax …
Anyone who thought the fight was over with the signing of the Affordable Care Act was sorely mistaken. And no, I’m not talking about Republicans efforts to repeal the law or challenge its constitutionality. I’m talking about the writing of regulations that will implement the law.
Some 10-20 pages – or more – of regulations are …
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—Another poll suggests Pat Toomey’s lead over Joe Sestak has evaporated in Pennsylvania. They slugged it out in last night’s debate.
–Nate Silver debunks the big mo.
–The ads are flying fast and furious through the home stretch in Nevada: The SEIU calls Angle dangerous, Angle continues her late push to play up Reid’s wealth, …
Yesterday, several news outlets reported that White House aides had scrapped a planned presidential tour of the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India, the spiritual center of the Sikh religion. The reason for avoiding the temple, according to unnamed sources: Head covering. As the New York Times explained, “[T]he plan appears to have …
I have posted dozens of ads on Swampland over the last several months, but I can’t think of any that do as many things so effectively as this spot from California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown. First, some background: Meg Whitman is running as the non-politician CEO against Brown, who she has tried to paint as the uber-career …
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Well, all of a sudden, the Senate races are getting closer. The reason for this is obvious: it’s much easier to get to know a statewide candidate than a local Congressional one. The House is subject to more radical swings, depending on national mood. Senators debate on statewide tv; they put up more advertising–and so the actual …
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Late last week I lost a friend and colleague, Jamil Hamad, who was an invaluable source of wisdom about all things Palestinian. Howard Chua-Eoan, our chief of correspondents, wrote this tribute to him:
Jamil Hamad, TIME’s invaluable correspondent on Palestinian life and politics, died in a hospital in the West Bank early Sunday
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Diving through the 600+ pages of Sarah Palins two most recent Federal Election Commission disclosures – the October Quarterly report filed Oct. 12 and the Pre-General report filed Oct. 17 – has been fascinating. While most of the media attention has been paid to what she brought in, $1.2 million, I focused on her disbursements. For …
The Brookings Institution hosted a live Web chat today with their voting guru Michael McDonald. Below are questions I submitted as well as a few other exchanges. Turnout and what prods that turnout seem, predictably, to be on everyone’s minds during these least few weeks.
Comment From Katy Steinmetz:
Are black voters going to turn
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In the ArenaAfghanistan
Dexter Filkins has a fascinating, if confusing, piece today about the negotiations that have begun between the Karzai government and high-level elements of the Taliban…but not including the highest-level element, Mullah Omar. What is unclear is whether Omar–who has been “cut out” of the negotiations–has authorized his deputies to …
Social issues have not dominated this cycle’s political discourse in the way they did in years past. Just six years after George W. Bush wielded gay marriage as an effective tool in his re-election bid, you have a potential Republican presidential contender suggesting a “truce” to make more room for detente on fiscal issues. The …
