If Hillary Clinton were unveiling an energy policy, it would generate a fair amount of attention. When Hillary Clinton unveils a health care policy that would offer universal coverage to the nation, it’s a much bigger deal. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton announced a $110 billion health care reform plan Monday that would require […]
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * On Saturday morning, Wesley Clark, the retired four-star general who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, announced his endorsement of Hillary Clinton. “I’m very pleased today to announce my endorsement […]
I suspect Hallmark doesn’t offer a card for the occasion — at least, not yet — but thanks for the efforts of Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), today is Constitution Day in the United States. Even the president, whose appreciation for the document is suspect, issued a presidential proclamation to honor the day. In light of […]
I strongly believe that a person’s religious faith, or lack thereof, is a personal matter — a freedom that even extends to presidential candidates — and that someone can believe what they want, join the faith group that they want, and worship how they want. Having said that, when Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) announced that […]
The Emmy Awards show was on time-delay last night, which offered Fox the chance to edit the live show and block “offensive” content. When Sally Field was giving her acceptance speech last night, however, Fox made a decision that warrants some follow-up. At tonight’s Emmy Awards show, the audience cheered Sally Field’s acceptance speech, which […]
Following up on widely reported rumors yesterday, the White House is poised to announce that Michael Mukasey, a former judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, will be nominated to replace Alberto Gonzales as the Attorney General. The announcement may come as early as this morning. The nomination of […]
Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign probably thought it was being very clever using Gen. David Petraeus’ image in a new ad this week. For the Republican candidate, it was the best of all worlds — Giuliani got to bash MoveOn, smear Hillary Clinton, and associate himself with a decorated general, all at the same time. What […]
There are two principal knocks against Fred Thompson’s presidential campaign: 1) he doesn’t know (or care) much about policy, and expects to get by on vague generalities and platitudes; and 2) running for president is really hard, and Thompson is too lazy to excel. On the first point, Thompson seems to be doing his level […]
Chasing Attorney General rumors has proven to be rather pointless. Initially, Department of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff was practically already prepping for his confirmation hearings. Then, the White House leaked a short list, sans Chertoff, and Ted Olson was the likely nominee. Now we have a new front-runner for the job: Michael Mukasey, a […]
With the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks having just passed, there was quite a bit of talk this week about why we haven’t been attacked again since. Truth be told, the claim, on its face, is rather misleading. We were attacked, about a month after 9/11, when someone sent weaponized anthrax to two Democratic senators […]