By S.L. Price Here’s the beauty of pickup basketball: You may be a U.S. senator, a living symbol of racial healing and perhaps even the next President of the United States, but if you’re gliding in for an easy layup and each point is precious, I’ve got no choice then, do I? You’re getting hacked. [...]
David Brooks If Clinton were running against Obama for Senate, it would be easy to choose between them. But they are running for president, and the presidency requires a different set of qualities. Presidents are buffeted by sycophancy, criticism and betrayal. They must improvise amid a thousand fluid crises. They’re isolated and also exposed, puffed [...]
Big Table Fantasies By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: December 17, 2007 Broadly speaking, the serious contenders for the Democratic nomination are offering similar policy proposals – the dispute over health care mandates notwithstanding. But there are large differences among the candidates in their beliefs about what it will take to turn a progressive agenda into reality.
Judge urged not to ask about CIA tapes By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Write WASHINGTON – The Bush administration told a federal judge it was not obligated to preserve videotapes of CIA interrogations of suspected terrorists and urged the court not to look into the tapes’ destruction. In court documents filed Friday night, government lawyers [...]
Ben Watch this! Mike you can watch it too! though I’m not sure you even exist. Maybe Obama will watch it too. We know Hillary likes the “FW-Mac” She probably won’t watch it. BTW what is her theme song this election–wasn’t she just going to be a senator? Didn’t she just want to represent the [...]
By Chris Kelly A lot of people think Mitt Romney chose to give his religion speech this week because he’s afraid of the Rev. Mike Huckabee. (A man whose main qualifications for the Oval Office are a personal relationship with Jesus and the ability to lose weight.) Mike is breathing down Mitt’s neck in Iowa, [...]