News item: Former Interior Secretary Babbitt Chides Obama Babbitt said the administration has acquiesced to riders that conservatives placed on the interim budget, including one that took the gray wolf off the endangered species list in several states and another that gutted a program meant to reduce overfishing. [snip] Michael Brune, executive director of the …
Must be certifiably insane in order to appeal to the Tea Party and social conservative cohorts in a party moving further and further way from its moderate members. With the news that Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana is not going to run, the field of potential Republican candidates who might appeal to independent voters shrank …
I get that when you’re faced with hostage-takers who are perfectly willing to kill their hostage and you really want to keep the hostage alive you have to give in to most of the hostage-takers’ demands. I really do. But you don’t, for cryin’ out loud, then praise the deal as historic. Rather, you say …
I left this as a comment on a post at Lance Mannion’s place, and the cold light of day hasn’t changed my mind so I’m posting it here as well. I’m afraid I can’t buy the analysis cited in that post actor212 linked to (it posits that by freezing Federal wages Obama takes a Republican …
Sure, let’s freeze federal pay for two years. It’s anti-stimulative, since federal workers buy things as much as everyone else, and there’s sure as hell no chance of getting any new fiscal stimulus out of Congress, but what the heck. Then let’s announce it without getting any quid pro quo from the Republicans, like extending …
Well, in part, it comes from e-mail like the one I received this morning: 6. When he traveled to Pakistan , after college on an unknown national passport, people said it didn’t matter. 7. When he sought the endorsement of the Marxist Party in 1996 as he ran for the Illinois Senate, people said it …
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“Thanks to the intervention of Malia and Sasha, ’cause I was plannin’ to eat this sucker. . .”
When I was in junior high and high school the prospect of a President of the United States directly addressing students would have been met with astonished pleasure by school boards, principals and faculty. The fact that most of them could have written his address themselves (“Stay in school. Study hard. Set goals.”) wouldn’t have …
Oh my. Take a look at these two photos side-by-side. A fascinating historical oddity; I’m not sure who should be flattered more, Bob and Suze Rotolo or Barack and Michelle.
Not that the author claims that “Everything Barack Obama Knows He Learned on the Basketball Court,” but Sports Illustrated has another good article about the soon–to-be President, called The Audacity of Hoops. Plenty of quotes from his high school coach about his skill (not bad) and his outspokenness (more playing time!). More seriously, the author …