Is Obama losing the young? Dave Weigel once quipped that if a
headline is a question, then the answer is almost always “no.”
That’s probably true in this case. But Michael Barone is
wondering the same thing over at the Washington
E...
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) confirmed to House Republicans
that he will enforce the “Hastert Rule” for the immigration reform
bill,
according to reports by The Hill. The announcement came at a
closed-door GOP House conference meeting.
The Hastert R...
The U.S. is set to restart formal peace negotiations with the
Taliban on Thursday after three years of failed attempts.
The Washington Post:
After more than a decade of war in Afghanistan, and nearly three
years of sputtering and unsuccessful attempts a...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) continues to separate himself from the
pack, this time with several common-sense proposals involving
immigration policy.
Yesterday he introduced the “Secure
the Vote” amendment to the immigration reform bill—S.
744...
As Daniel Halper at The Weekly Standard
notes,
President Obama told Charlie Rose that one cannot understand the
“complexities” of our policy in Syria “if you haven’t been in the
Situation Room.”
So does this mean that Beyonc...
Today the Supreme Court struck down, by a vote of 7 to 2, an
Arizona law that required proof of citizenship for voter
registration.
The case at hand, Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of
Arizona, Inc, involving
Arizona’s Proposition 200, was ultimately a...
Just when it seems like things have hit a stride in the Middle
East, something new happens and turns everything on its head.
On Thursday, the U.S. announced its plans to intervene in Syria
on behalf of the rebels, and many
loud voices—including hawkish...
Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian has wrapped up an
online question-and-answer session with NSA leaker Edward
Snowden. He answered questions about his backstory, motivations,
contact with the Chinese government (none, he said), and claims of
awesome, unive...
There’s a report out there in a story by the New
Yorker’s Ryan Lizza that is written
up this way in Politico and was also quoted by Rush
Limbaugh. Here’s the pull quote:
Fox News has notably changed its tone since the election.…
McCain t...
