I’ll have the transcript up as soon as CNN posts it, but George W. Bush appeared on “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer” this afternoon and made one of those stunning remarks that could — or rather, should — become a political problem for the White House. Blitzer asked the president to respond to the nightmare […]
The debate in DC over whether and how to torture — I still find it painful to type those words — gripped the political establishment for a couple of weeks, and Dems on the Hill took an entirely passive approach. It wasn’t necessarily because they didn’t care, it was more part of a deliberate strategy: […]
As stunning as Bill [tag]Clinton[/tag]’s interview on [tag]Fox News[/tag] was, no one should overlook the fascinating interview the former president did yesterday with MSNBC’s Keith [tag]Olbermann[/tag]. (C&L has some of it, and MSNBC has clips of nearly all of it.) Olbermann, as he is wont to do, asked a poignant question: “This is not what […]
How are Democrats going to approach the midterm elections? We’ve been getting some conflicting reports. Roll Call suggested this week that Dems are going to do what they did in 2002 and 2004. Forced to play defense on national security for the third election year in a row, Congressional Democrats have been huddling in recent […]
We won’t be able to see the video until tomorrow, but in the meantime, I think readers will enjoy checking out ThinkProgress’ item on Fox News’ Chris Wallace’s interview with President Bill Clinton. It was taped yesterday for broadcast tomorrow. As Judd noted, the interview was intended to be about the Clinton Global Initiative and […]
ABC News reported last night that Arkansas Gov. Mike [tag]Huckabee[/tag] (R) played the compassionate-conservative card yesterday, appearing at the [tag]Family Research Council[/tag]’s “[tag]Values Voters Summit[/tag],” and delivering a half-way progressive message that the audience didn’t want to hear. ABC suggested it was Huckabee’s “[tag]Sister Souljah[/tag] moment.” It wasn’t. At today’s Values Voters Summit, Gov. Mike […]
First up from the God machine this week is a religion story I’ve been following quite closely lately, involving a dispute between All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena and the Internal Revenue Service. If you’re just joining us, a guest pastor at All Saints delivered a sermon shortly before the 2004 presidential election. The Rev. […]
I know we take television pretty seriously in this country, but I didn’t quite expect this. The average American home now has more [tag]television[/tag] sets than people. That threshold was crossed within the past two years, according to [tag]Nielsen[/tag] Media Research. There are 2.73 TV sets in the typical home and 2.55 people, the researchers […]
Guest Post by Morbo Leaders of the Lutheran Church in Germany have an unusual problem on their hands: They don’t known what to do with a church full of Nazi imagery. As Religion News Service explained recently, Berlin’s Martin Luther Memorial Church definitely has some odd features. From the outside, it’s an ordinary church with […]
[tag]Reading First[/tag] is not just another grant program in the [tag]Department of Education[/tag]. According to the cabinet agency’s website, it is “the academic cornerstone of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act.” Reading First, the Department of Education has argued “is a prime example of the No Child Left Behind law’s emphasis on programs and […]