–updated below– On Fridays, I often go back over some items I haven’t had time to fully analyze, with this a particularly good day to do so on this one, especially as RECESS! and summer vacation call for the political class in D.C., though in cities across this country the health care war will just [...]
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Baitullah Mehsud, Dead or Alive?
Bill Rogio says the leader of the Pakistani Taliban is alive. Other reports say he’s dead, which we’ve assumed before. ABC offered this report the other day: “There is strong indication” that Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a CIA drone strike that targeted a house Wednesday, a senior administration official told ABC [...]
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Open Season
“We’ve addressed these rumors before. They are nothing more than typical Washington parlor games. It’s disappointing that while we are focused on reviving the economy and fighting two wars, others spend their time pointing fingers in an attempt to promote their own status.” – White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina, via Wall Street [...]
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Racist Poster Uses Blockbuster Character Camoflage
Barack Obama in white face, reminiscent of the old minstrel shows. But everyone in LA is only seeing a Hollywood character. A poster showing President Barack Obama as Heath Ledger’s “Joker” character from “The Dark Knight” is creating a stir on the streets of Los Angeles where the image began appearing over the weekend. The [...]
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Avigdor Lieberman Will Resign if Indicted
“If [after a hearing] the attorney-general decides on serving an indictment,” Lieberman said, “at that moment, I will resign [as foreign minister.]. Three to five months afterward, I will resign as party chairman and Knesset member; the period of time will enable an orderly transition of positions.” After what is being billed as a nine-year-long [...]
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CNN’s Big Fat Headache
Blared across Huffington Post is this headline from AP: Lou Dobbs A “Publicity Nightmare” For CNN, with the following at the link: He’s become a publicity nightmare for CNN, embarrassed his boss and hosted a show that seemed to contradict the network’s “no bias” brand. And on top of all that, his ratings are slipping. [...]
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Iran, Obama – Clinton Tag Team Brits on Torture, and other world happenings
Police in Iran have crashed the mourning of Neda. The CNN piece here reports almost 3,000 mourners, plus Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard, his wife, were present as well. The Guardian has a provocative article about Secretary Clinton allegedly “indicating,” which in the Guardian title is judged as “threatening”, Britain about disclosing any CIA torture evidence [...]
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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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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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The Crazy ‘Birther’ Bunch on Parade
“Obama has yet to prove he’s a citizen” – Rush Limbaugh The clip of Matthews making a congressman admit to Obama’s citizenship is getting a lot of play right now. The better question is why Chris Matthews is covering it? This is news? I’m wondering if our media has now decided that every single crackpot [...]
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Obama and Gates Win F-22 Fight
The funding is out of the budget. The vote wasn’t even close. Pres. Obama gets a lot of credit for this one, as does SecDef Gates. So, I thought it might be useful to go back to the Cato event I covered on “fixing the Defense budget.” Here’s part of what I reported at the [...]
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Baucus Targeted on Health Care Cash
–updated– As you can likely already tell, I’m out of the loop for a while today, working, but not able to blog much. I’ll check back in when I can. Now, back to Baucus. Busted: … As his committee has taken center stage in the battle over health-care reform, Chairman Baucus (D-Mont.) has emerged as [...]
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