Jan 26,2009
White House press release or Wash. Post headline? You decide.
There is a headline in this morning’s paper, on the bottom of page A9, that reads, “Obama Using His Personal Appeal To Put Change Into Motion.” We learn that “In...
Jan 26,2009
Boehner vs. Boehner on bipartisanship
Yesterday: MR. [DAVID] GREGORY: Well, let me stop you there, because you say that you can’t borrow and spend…Doesn’t the government have to be the spender of last resort? REP....
Jan 26,2009
Stimulating something besides the economy
John Boehner: “How can you spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives? How does that stimulate the economy?” Boehner’s office explained, One proposal included in the stimulus package would...
Jan 26,2009
Succinct and to the point
Who doesn’t love stumbling across one or two sentence descriptions that capture something we feel to be true but can’t quite articulate? In that vein I present Ben McGrath, writing...
Jan 26,2009
Nuclear security worker pleads guilty to stealing sensitive components
He kind of looks like Dennis Hastert, no?