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Bill Galston makes a very convincing case that the Bush Administration’s pro-oil disdain for environmental regulation, starring Dick Cheney, prevented the government from requiring a remote control backup device that would have prevented the spill. The device costs $500,000 per well. The spill will cost billions.
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Jacob Weisberg has a wise and lovely piece about the British election on Slate.
Arizona Sen. John McCain, just a few months from his primary, made clear his position on “Imus in the Morning” Tuesday: The Justice Department should not give suspected Times Square car bomber, Faisal Shahzad, his miranda rights. “Obviously that would be a serious mistake until all the information is gathered,” he said.
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–A Connecticut man, Faisal Shahzad, was detained Monday night at JFK airport as a suspect in the Times Square attempted bombing. He’s expected in court today, but specific charges have yet to be made public.
–The Senate begins voting on financial regulation amendments today. As I …
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It is early days yet in the investigation of the Times Square bombing, but not too early to be impressed by the quick and excellent work done by the FBI, NYPD and the Joint Terrorism Task Force in picking up the prime suspect, Faisal Shahzad, from a flight to Dubai last night. We in the media were quick to jump all over the federal …
The polls are headed in the wrong direction for Gordon Brown, and he is losing newspaper endorsements. But he is not flagging one bit, as he showed today in a speech to Citizens UK. It is quite a performance, with a notable Barack Obama homage (at 2:45). But since this is a Gordon Brown speech, something had to go all wrong. So look also …
Now that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has defected from the Republican Party, his former allies appear intent on scrubbing the stains of the association as quickly as possible. If the party can restock its coffers in the process, so much the better—which is why GOP officials in the Sunshine State are hawking a pricey portrait of …
On paper and in the public, most Democrats love Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln’s proposal to force banks to divest their derivatives operations. It’s populist and gets at the heart of the credit default mess that caused the financial meltdown. Heck, President Obama even warned
The Republican Governors Association is pushing back against Michael’s assertion that its flashy new web video was echoing “V for Vendetta.” The sequel video portrays a left-wing media conspiracy to discredit the original piece by tying it to violence, while largely echoing the stylistic and thematic qualities that drew comparisons to …
President Obama may have (one hopes inadvertently) killed the immigration bill prematurely last week, but that doesn’t mean that Senate Democrats aren’t still pushing ahead with the legislation. Senators Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer last week introduced a 22-page outline of a bill – noticeably without South Carolina Republican …
When Mitch McConnell unveiled his opposition to the Dodd financial reform bill last month, I highlighted the similarities between the minority leader’s floor speech and a memo from GOP message maven Frank Luntz. Their (mischaracterizing) argument was that the legislation would institutionalize Wall Street bailouts on the taxpayer’s …
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I received another update from Captain Jeremiah Ellis this morning, again a combination of good news and frustration:
I am sorry I haven’t sent an update your way in some time now. Thus
far, there has not been much to report. The Taliban placed an IED along RTE Senjaray [the road leading to the school] that we discovered and reduced,
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One of my favorite charlatans, Dr. James Dobson, has switched his endorsement–of deathless value, no doubt–in the Kentucky Republican Senate primary from Trey Grayson to Rand Paul, the neo-libertarian son of Ron Paul. Dobson says he’s been reassured about Paul’s position on abortion. But his reassurance–and reissuance–may be have …
