Yesterday I picked up The Washington Post from my doorstep and scanned the front page for coverage of the latest ACORN scandal. Call me naive if you want to, but The Post is my hometown paper and I maintain high
So when two scrappy DC journalists bring down a President, it’s turned into “All the President’s Men,” winning accolades and Oscars. When an unemployed single mother of three takes the fight to an energy giant, it becomes a blockbuster vehicle
George Will in today’s Washington Post: “Did the White House initiate the conference call-cum-political pep rally? Or, even worse, did the NEA, an independent agency, spontaneously politicize itself? Something that reads awfully like an invitation went from Sergant’s NEA e-mail
Many thanks to all for making my new book “Hollywood on the Potomac” a success. In the first week, it is already hitting Non-Fiction Bestseller lists in bookstores. It’s available now at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Borders and many
Washington Post — Van Jones Resignation Statement: “On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me.They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.”
Washington Post: “I am resigning my post at the Council on Environmental Quality, effective today,” Jones said in a statement dated Sept 5 released around midnight on Sept 6. “On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean
17 August 2009 Sangin, Afghanistan The roads are so littered with enemy bombs that nearly all transport and resupply to this base occurs by helicopter. The pilots roar through the darkness, swoop into small bases nestled in the saddle of
From ABC: DWTS is a long way from Washington D.C.’s world of politics, so we’re anxious to see just how well this Texas native can do the two-step! One of the most influential Republican figures in the early 2000s, Tom
Fox News: Former Vice President Dick Cheney believes his old boss, President George W. Bush, gradually turned away from his advice during their second term in the White House, showing a surprising independence as he started taking more flexible positions
Washington Post: The Obama administration is proposing to scale back a long-standing ban on tracking how people use government Internet sites with “cookies” and other technologies, raising alarms among privacy groups. Also on part two of Wednesday’s show: Rep. Sheila
Build your own custom video playlist at embedr.com Washington Post: The Obama administration is proposing to scale back a long-standing ban on tracking how people use government Internet sites with “cookies” and other technologies, raising alarms among privacy groups. A
The Democrats, after getting their butts kicked all through July, are trying to change the momentum by raising the bloody flag of class warfare. Last Friday the House of Representatives voted 237-185 along party lines to enable financial regulators to
WaPo: This is merely “play[ing] into a view of Bush popular among his detractors…” This required a few passes to be sure my eyes weren’t playing tricks. You keep telling yourself to stop being amazed by hypocrisy and bias, but
Whatever happened to good old-fashioned American know-how, pulling yourself up from the bootstraps, proving to the world you have the mettle to succeed on your own raw talent? If you’re Paris Hilton or, say, the Huffington Post — none of
AP: The Washington Post reported on its website that Robert McNamara died in his sleep at his home in Washington. The precise cause of death was not immediately known. A former Ford Motor president, McNamara was defense secretary under presidents
Politico: White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked Thursday in the briefing room if anyone from the White House was invited to attend the salons, and what the policy is for attending such events. “I don’t know if anybody
Politico: Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth said today she was canceling plans for an exclusive “salon” at her home where for as much as $250,000, the Post offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record access to “those powerful few” — Obama
Washington Post: “Our leaders have not decided on the fate of this soldier. They will decide on his fate and soon we will present video tapes of the coalition soldier and our demand to media.”
Washington Post: Once Marine units arrive in their designated towns and villages, they have been instructed to build and live in small outposts among the local population.
A Boston.com article from early 2004 profiled the Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo. In that article she was quoted as saying the following: “It really disturbs me,” she [Aghdashloo] says, “when I see a voiceless woman, a voiceless human being who’s
I remember reading years ago that Lisa Marie said that, in private, Michael Jackson spoke in a perfectly normal (well…) male voice. By the magic of Google, I found the piece and present it to you. Tina Brown, Washington Post,
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Washington Post: U.S. officials say Obama is intent on calibrating his comments to the mood of the hour. They say he is seeking to avoid having the demonstrators
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Washington Post: Mir Hossein Mousavi, who charges that he was cheated of victory in the June 12 presidential election, told supporters in southwestern Tehran that he was “ready
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Washington Post: State officials have gone hat in hand to the administration, armed with dire warnings of a fast-approaching “fiscal meltdown” caused by a budget shortfall. Concern has
It’s time for me to end another men’s magazine subscription. Sad. I thought this one might last an entire 12 issues. “Details” just declared its unconditional love for President Obama with a “think” piece teased on the front cover –
