Vice President Joe Biden has been negotiating with leading congressional Republicans for weeks in an attempt to reach a deal on deficit reduction so that Congress will vote to raise the debt ceiling. The discussions have been taking place behind closed doors, so I had been holding out hope that these talks were going somewhere—anywhere. And I thought they were: [...]
Stalin (a man who should certainly know about such things) once said, “One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.” I recently had the privilege of attending a joint Ford Foundation/AJC (there’s a bit of irony in that, if you care to pursue it) conference on immigration. One of the presentations centered on sharp, effective messaging. Tamar [...]
The magazine National Journal does a survey each week called the Political Insiders Poll. In the June 4th issue, the editors asked insiders from both parties to answer different questions. Democrats were asked, “Who would be the Republicans’ strongest presidential nominee in 2012?” That list was short, with clear front-runners. The first choice was, as with the Republicans, Mitt Romney [...]
Disclaimer: Умом Россию не понять It’s a truism to say that Russian government is broken. Finding benevolent, selfless leaders anywhere in Russian history is like playing “Where’s Waldo?” Perhaps Alexander the II qualifies…Ivan the Terrible probably falls under the selfless category, but any man wielding an army of brutal soldiers dressed in black who sees himself as God’s earthly executioner probably [...]
Earlier this week, I was looking at a New York Times graphic titled “Key States for Obama.” To my surprise, Missouri—what I would consider the ultimate swing state—did not feature on the list at all. Somewhere else I saw it referred to as a lost cause. Strange, given that it has voted for the winning candidate in 25 of the [...]
With regard to the U.S. military, 2011 will always be remembered as the year that our Navy SEALs finally took out Osama bin Laden. President Obama rightfully told us the night bin Laden was killed, “Justice has been done”. But what else will 2011 be remembered for in terms of our military’s legacy? It certainly has the potential to be remembered as the year that the [...]
Last night was the first major debate of the 2012 Republican Presidential Primary. Seven candidates faced off to discuss issues ranging from economics to foreign policy and NASA to abortion. Below I offer my assessment of each candidate’s performance: Tim Pawlenty: In my opinion, Tim Pawlenty won the debate. He attacked Obama frequently, used colorful language (“stupid” and “chump”), and [...]
CNN is live broadcasting the Republican Presidential Debate from Manchester, NH online at http://live.cnn.com and on television. The speakers are Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney. 10:00 p.m. Romney’s closing remarks – what he has learned from the NH debate and the NH people – are that the economy will be [...]
I thought that the day shouldn’t pass without some mention of today’s most momentous news. Forget Gingrich’s campaign implosion, Gates’s denunciation of NATO, Drake’s plea deal, Syria’s assault on a town, and, of course, the continuing Weiner-gate saga. (And yes, I do link to the Post a bit too much, but that’s really beside the point.) THE PALIN E-MAILS HAVE [...]
No doubt many of you have heard tell of Thomas Drake, the former NSA manager/software developer who is being tried for espionage under a Cold War-era amendment to the 1917 Espionage Act. Today, the government scaled back its indictment of 10 felony charges, offering Drake the opportunity to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor and serve no jail time. Drake [...]
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