The Obama Administration has some explaining to do. Politico reports in a Friday story that 2011 could be a tough year for an Administration facing numerous oversight hearings on issues ranging from the controversy over the Justice Department’s handling of
Over at Big Peace, the Center for Security Policy’s Christine Brim reveals that Politico — an organization wanting to be known for unbiased reporting– has begun harassing the Center and other individuals, demanding details of their involvement with opposition to
Dueling investigations are underway on the Ground Zero Mosque. Mustering on the Offense, in opposition to the Ground Zero Mosque: hundreds of citizen researchers, reporters, lawyers, authors, elected officials, and scholars who are researching Imam Rauf and his Muslim Brotherhood
—– Hollywood A-listers avoiding Obama at fundraisers, Jon Stewart declaring the Race Card maxed out, and now the President’s number-one Late Night Palace Guard sees that he has no other choice other than to point to the vacationing elephant in
The Marine officer is compact and solid. He wears his combat fatigues pressed, with a neat crease in the upper sleeve. His buzz-cut is sharp and clean. His clear eyes, open expression, and intense gaze evidence intelligence and keen perception,
Despite the fact that President Obama made Cap and Trade and other green policy plans a focal point of his early days in office — not to mention his campaign for president — the White House has quietly scrubbed from
To meet audience expectations — better still, to fully satisfy those expectations, a good filmmaker comes to terms with the fact that their primary job is to understand and appreciate the storytelling target they’ve been charged with hitting. Whatever the
Brother, can you spare $26,000? Some of Jerry Brown’s friends sure can, but the endorsement of Jodie Evans (of the vehemently anti-American Code Pink) should be a giant wake-up call to the Los Angeles Iranian-American community. To the hundreds of
Writing for Time Magazine, compromised JournoList hack Michael Scherer has one of the most schizophrenic pieces of political analysis I’ve seen for quite a while. In his piece, Scherer can’t quite seem to figure out exactly whom he thinks is
In case you thought the “non-partisan media company” known as Politico was an objective news organization, playing politics right down the middle (as they promised they would when they started), think again. From today’s sob story about how the media
Politico reporter Abby Phillip began one piece yesterday by asserting “Republicans jumped Sunday on President Barack Obama’s defense of a proposed mosque […] Democrats meanwhile sought to change the subject.” Judging by Politico‘s and Phillip’s reporting, they intend to help
Since it’s getting increasingly more difficult to tell the difference between news in the New York Times and parodies in The Onion, I thought I would perform a public service by giving you the opportunity to hone your source-spotting skills.
In the runup to the 2010 elections, Politico is trying to rearrange this election’s narrative from the real one of widespread voter dissatisfaction with the Democrat status quo to one of “offbeat GOP candidates” that will “hurt the GOP.” Gee,
Congratulations, Tea Partiers! You know you’ve become a genuine threat to the Progressive movement when they start making t-shirts about you. The Agenda Project has launched “F*ck Tea”, an anti-Tea Party campaign that aims to “dismiss the tea party and
While more discouraging (if not downright frightening) economic news continues to roll in, making the Obama administration look increasingly incompetent, and while a federal judge unilaterally declares we’ve been misinterpreting the Constitution for nearly 225 years, and while a sitting
The Democracy Alliance is alive and well, and its Vice-Chair is about to be born again. Today, the “Queen of Labor”, SEIU Secretary-Treasurer and Chair of the Change to Win labor federation, Anna Burger, announced her retirement. [vimeo 14063077] Anna
Earlier this week, Left-Wing Gentlemen’s Quarterly (aka GQ) landed a big scoop that was destined to alter the shape of the 2010 elections, if not American politics as we know it: an anonymous source said Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul
Say what you will about our foreign policy pseudo-sophisticates, but when they commit to counterproductive policies grounded in incoherent assumptions, they stay committed. Whether they’re pushing public diplomacy apology tours to the Muslim world to “spread the truth about American
Say what you will about our foreign policy pseudo-sophisticates, but when they commit to counterproductive policies grounded in incoherent assumptions, they stay committed. Whether they’re pushing public diplomacy apology tours to the Muslim world to “spread the truth about American
Jennifer Haberkorn’s recent article in Politico, “Republican Party Eyes Choking Health Law Funding,” reveals far more about her merits as a journalist and health care “expert”, than it does about the GOP’s strategy of defunding Obamacare. In anotherwise dreary and
It’s unfair to analyze Spencer Ackerman, arguably the most immature and ugly contributor to the now infamous JournoList, through the hyperbolic battlefield exchanges of prosaic political warfare that exist between pundits of the Left and Right on the Internet. But
At least that’s what the wise man of the Washington Post, David Broder, has asked. David Broder, sage of the center, has long (very long) been the quintessential middle of the roader, Mr. Moderate, the Dean of Conventional Wisdom, David
President Obama came into office on promises of raising taxes, but only on those making more than $250,000 a year. Again and again he promised that there would be no tax increases on middle and working class families. Yet there
Mary Frances Berry, the former chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, writing in Politico: Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that
