From TIME’s Pentagon Correspondent, Mark Thompson, who also happens to hail from the Nutmeg State:
Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut Democrat seeking to succeed Christopher Dodd in the U.S. Senate, did a lot more fighting over Vietnam Tuesday than he ever did inside the country. That’s because, despite his claims to the contrary, he
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We here at Swampland basically avoided the whole discussion of the sexual orientation of Elena Kagan. But I cannot let pass Michael Kinsley’s exploration, today, of the sex life of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, because it is just too funny.
Now that the sex lives of Supreme Court justices have become grist for commentators, we
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As you probably know, Trey Grayson is running for Senate in Kentucky. What you might not know is that “Trey” isn’t actually his name. It’s just a handle given to the third in a line of Charles Merwin Graysons. Far from frowning on pseudonymous politicians, the Bluegrass State allows candidates to designate a nickname to run on the …
You read it here first. Many of the purchases people make from the gold brokers that increasingly clutter the cable news and talk radio streams are horrifically lousy investments. Now comes a report from Congressman Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., expanding on what is already disclosed in the fine print on the websites of firms like
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Pollsters have long found voter enthusiasm to be rather predictive of election results. Back in October of 1994, 45 percent of Republican said they were more enthusiastic to vote than usual, compared to 30 percent of Democrats. Republicans ran the table. In June of 2006, just months before Democrats took back control of the House and …
Republican Congressman Mark Souder of Indiana announed his resignation today after he copped to an affair with a female aide. “I sinned against God, my wife and my family by having a mutual relationship with a part-time member of my staff,” Souder told reporters at a press conference at his congressional office in Ft. Wayne. The former …
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
–It’s primary day in Arkansas, Kentucky, Oregon and Pennsylvania. Contests between Lincoln and Halter, Paul and Grayson, and Specter and Sestak, as well as a special election between Critz and Burns in PA-12 are widely seen as yardsticks by which to measure this cycle’s anti-establishment …
The New York Times is reporting that Connecticut Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, never served in the Vietnam War despite his claims that he did.
At a ceremony honoring veterans and senior citizens who sent presents to soldiers overseas, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut rose and spoke of an earlier time in his
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is feeling pretty good today. After using his political power as the state’s Republican leader and his veto power as governor, Pawlenty has notched a massive state budget victory that Politico’s Ben Smith says lays the groundwork for the governor’s assumed 2012 presidential run.
Refusing to compromise …
In accordance with the law, President Obama disclosed three gifts today in his official financial disclosure form for fiscal year 2009. The first is a “Nobel Medal and diploma” for which the value is “not readily ascertainable.” The second is a cash prize from the Nobel Foundation of about $1.4 million, which has been given to …
There are a lot of races this week — perhaps the busiest primary week since the 2008 season. Here’s a story from me about the five top Democratic primaries. Obviously, as I mention, there’s also the Rand Paul/Trey Grayson smackdown in Kentucky on the Republican side which it looks like Paul will likely win in a victory for the Tea …
As debate over SB1070 continues to rage, The Arizona Republic convenes a panel of experts to parse its practical applications. It should come as no surprise that when and how the controversial new law should be enforced remains open to interpretation. The five-person panel included two Arizona legislators: a Republican who sponsored the …
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This is an excellent, well-argued piece by Peter Beinart about the moral failure of Jewish-American leaders with regard to Israel’s hard-right turn. I would hope that the leaders of AIPAC, the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League etc etc would read it and think about it carefully, and that it forces those who have …
