Michael Steele took to the airwaves today to try and fix his highly tarnished record. That of course didn’t work out too well as Steele tried to pull out the race card, something he said he never does just a few short months ago. As if that isn’t bad, now we have the news that […]
Appearing tonight on the Rachael Maddow Show, the Haitian ambassador, Raymond Joseph, took some time to remind haters like Pat Robertson that if it wasn’t for Haiti the U.S. would not be what it is today. Joseph: “What pact the Haitian made with the devil helped make America what it is” Let’s have a little […]
A very grim assessment from the prime minister of Haiti: Hundreds of thousands of people have died in Haiti’s earthquake, the prime minister told CNN Wednesday. Haitian authorities said the powerful quake destroyed most of the capital city of Port-au-Prince. A top envoy called it a “major catastrophe.” Haiti’s first lady, Elisabeth Debrosse Delatour, reported […]
Obama had a celebration yesterday with Mexico’s ambassador and had a little gaff: President Barack Obama is celebrating Cinco de Mayo a little early. On the eve of the Mexican holiday, Obama on Monday had an event in the East Room of the White House with Mexico’s Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan (sahr-oo-KHAN’). Obama joked that it […]
The latest in the Jack Ryan movies nearly comes to life: A mysterious night-time telephone call last week brought nuclear-armed India and Pakistan close to the brink of war at the height of the crisis over the Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistani officials said Sunday. They said the “threatening” call was made, ostensibly by Indian Foreign […]
Here is another fine choice for Secretary of State Obama is considering: Eyewitness News 4 has learned Gov. Bill Richardson met with the Barack Obama transitional team Friday in Chicago about a possible position as Secretary of State. Richardson, the former secretary of energy in the Clinton administration, is considered a top contender for secretary […]
An article in the New York Times talks about big money donors asking for donations back from the DNC, due to the dispute over Michigan and Florida. Here is a look at one of those donors: Pushing to seat the Florida delegates, at least one top Clinton fund-raiser, Paul Cejas, a Miami businessman who has […]
Officials are looking at keeping the next Iraq assessment a “secret”: A new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq is scheduled to be completed this month, according to U.S. intelligence officials. But leaders of the intelligence community have not decided whether to make its key judgments public, a step that caused an uproar when key judgments […]
With the White House working hard to pin everything on Iran, it should come as no shock that Iran would turn the tables and do the same to us: The Iranian Foreign Ministry charged Sunday that Sunni insurgents from Iran used Pakistan as a base to plan a bombing that killed 11 people and wounded […]
NRO: How about Rick Santorum for the UN job? Yeah, there’d probably be a confirmation fight. And he may want to take a breather after 16 years in elected office. But it’s worth thinking over. Hell – how about Katherine Harris, George “Macaca” Allen or even Tom Delay? (H/T Andrew Sullivan)