Seems like our third branch doesn’t much like the secrecy that the President has been trying to instill: A federal judge on Friday rejected the Bush administration’s latest attempt to keep secret the identities of White House visitors and declared that it engaged in illegal record-keeping practices. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth concluded that the […]
Kit Bond announced this week that he would not be running for re-election in 2010, but now there are hints that George Voinovich may also be following suit: U.S. Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio is leaving open the possibility of not running for re-election in 2010. Voinovich, 72, is thinking about the challenging economic situation […]
A sign of the times. Three men are now under federal indictment for seeking out black people to beat up following Obama’s victory. This was the kind of thing we knew would happen, especially given the tone of the Wasilla-billy Sarah Palin on the campaign trail.
Bush’s legacy keeps on building: The nation’s unemployment rate bolted to 7.2 percent in December, the highest level in 16 years, as nervous employers slashed 524,000 jobs, capping one of the worst years in modern history for American workers. But those are just the unemployed. Let’s not forget those who are still working, but have […]
The Guardian is reporting that the Obama team has signaled they may open some low-level diplomacy with Hamas: The incoming Obama administration is prepared to abandon George Bush’s doctrine of isolating Hamas by establishing a channel to the Islamist organisation, sources close to the transition team say. The move to open contacts with Hamas, which […]
A sad sign of the times: Electronic unemployment filing systems have crashed in at least three states in recent days amid an unprecedented crush of thousands of newly jobless Americans seeking benefits, and other states were adjusting their systems to avoid being next. About 4.5 million Americans are collecting jobless benefits, a 26-year high, so […]
This seems rather ironic, but during the election we all learned about Joe “the Plumber”, the McCain poster child/supporter who turned out to not even be a plumber. He never completed the state requirements to become a journeyman plumber in his allowed time frame as an apprentice. Now we fast forward a couple of months […]
Wow – never saw this coming: President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of surgeon general to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon and correspondent for CNN and CBS, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation. Gupta has told administration officials that he wants the job, and the final vetting process is under way. […]
Day one of the new Congress and Roland Burris got rejected. Actually it wasn’t by anyone in the Senate, but rather by Illinois’ Secretary of State, who refused to sign his credentials. This is going to be very interesting to watch. As much of a creep as I think Blago is, it was a shrewd […]
The governor of Virginia will become the new head of the DNC. Meanwhile the former head of the DNC announces his run to become the next governor of Virginia.