A remarkable report from Michael Yon, complete with gripping photography, as well as analysis. The Helmand River as seen from Google Earth. Nearly everything in this image is under Taliban control. British and U.S. forces (almost exclusively British here) are contesting this control. The British are making progress in the Sangin area. We are vastly [...]
Archive | July, 2009
Obesity is Deadly and Expensive
We’re fat and getting fatter quicker. Look around. Now that we’re talking about national health care, will it become everybody’s business? In the eight years leading up to 2006, the proportion of Americans weighing in as obese shot up 37%, fueling a $40-billion-a-year rise in healthcare costs, according to a new analysis of the nation’s [...]
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Palin to Press: ‘Quit Making Things Up’
Palin is many things but “another Huckabee” isn’t one of them. Could Mike Huckabee ever gather the crowd sizes of Sarah Palin? Laughable. Does the media converge wherever Huckabee shows his face? Preposterous. Is there any chance Huckabee could raise millions for the GOP? Impossible. Frankly, I’m enjoying the Palin circus, including the press chasing [...]
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The View from Clinton’s Seat
“I am the chief adviser on foreign policy. … .. [...] [...] …I’m out of politics.“ – Secretary of State Clinton As backdrop, Gates is on his way to Israel, as is Mitchell, along with Gen. Jones. The question expected to come came. About that “nuclear umbrella,” Secretary? MR. GREGORY: All right, but let’s be [...]
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Beyond Dr. Tiller
–updated– Not only did she fear the protesters, she also worried about whether Dr. Tiller would be gruff and cold, “only in it for the money,” as his critics alleged. It was almost a shock, she said, to instead meet a slightly nerdy doctor who gently explained every step and kept asking, “Are you doing [...]
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Belly Up to the Presidential Bar
Via The Root, a statement from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: “… I told the President that my principal regret was that all of the attention paid to his deeply supportive remarks during his press conference had distracted attention from his health care initiative. I am pleased that he, too, is eager to use my experience [...]
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Obama Steps In and Up
The President called and connected with Professor Gates at 3:15 this afternoon. They had a positive discussion during which the President told Gates about his call with Sgt. Crowley and statement to the media. The President also invited Gates to join him with Sgt. Crowley at the White House in the near future. – from [...]
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Time for Obama To ‘Take the Temperature Down’
“This is incendiary. Race in this country is, is powerfully incendiary. And I suppose I thought that both sides of this would take a step back. Not listen to the news cycle. Not base future comments on the last news cycle. And make a determination that race is such a powerful–let me finish the thought–is [...]
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Sarah Palin’s Exit Numbers
Gov. Sarah Palin calls it quits on Sunday. Polling has been released, which is juxtaposed against a report that Palin will be found guilty of one of the 19 ethics allegations, via a leak from the State Personnel Board. The numbers: Overall, the new poll found that 53 percent of Americans view Palin negatively and [...]
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Cop Story, Day Two
–updated– Cambridge police brass and lawyers are weighing making the tapes public, which could include the 911 call reporting a break-in at Gates’ home and radio transmissions by the cop who busted him July 16 for disorderly conduct. – Boston Herald Before we get into this, I want to say I’ve lived in the middle [...]
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Defying Expectations
Gordon Liddy’s performance on “Hardball” today, which I taped (because I don’t watch this show much anymore), was stunning. You simply have to watch Liddy to believe it. According to him, Obama’s step-grandmother gave a deposition under oath that she actually saw, that’s right, saw Barack Obama born in Mombasa, Kenya. What it symbolizes is [...]
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Contemplations on Clinton
Hillary Clinton has broken into the news lately, today it’s surrounding the latest trading of insults salvo between the Secretary and North Korea’s Foreign Minister, which is rather amusing. At a meeting of southeast Asian nations in Phuket, Thailand, a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman blasted Clinton for what he called a “spate of vulgar [...]
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Obama’s Cambridge Police Quote Ricochets
–updated– As predicted, the topic exploding today is Pres. Obama’s statement about his friend Skip Gates and that the Cambridge police acted “stupidly.” It’s the last thing Obama wanted. From Ben Smith: After spending most of an hour patiently reiterating his arguments for changing the health insurance system, President Barack Obama turned his press conference [...]
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Obama Misses the Mark
“Because he’s made it such an issue, and because he has invested so much personal time and effort, this will, more than stimulus and more than anything he has done so far, be a measure of his clout and of his success early on,” Daschle was quoted in the New York Times. “And because it [...]
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Obama’s Pitch: ‘Health Insurance Reform’
–updated– Right off the top, Pres. Obama offered a new framing: health insurance reform. Then he went straight at the conservatives in both parties: “If we do not control these costs, we will not be able to control the deficit.” Pledging again that “health insurance reform” won’t add to the U.S. debt. The next hit [...]
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