No news yet as to why, but all the news outlets are confirming that Barney Frank will announce that he is not running for reelection in 2012. He is going to hold a news conference later on today to give more details. I must say that this has taken me by surprise. What do you […]
It’s time for Eric Cantor to go before the cameras and answer questions about this: Richmond police say the bullet that hit a window of Republican Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor’s office had been randomly fired skyward. Amid reports of threats and vandalism against Democrats who voted Sunday for sweeping health care reforms, Cantor said at […]
The AP’s Ron Fournier is at it again, and with the help of the main headline on Drudge. In a piece entitled “Analysis: Teleprompter telegraphs Obama caution”, Fournier makes it sound like Obama relied totally on a teleprompter during last night’s presser: What kind of politician brings a teleprompter to a news conference? A careful […]
He is worse! George Bush just said in a news conference he will not be going down to the Gulf until after the storm. He doesn’t want his trip to impede any of the massive operations underway. Does John McCain follow that same track of rational thinking? Hell no: Mr. McCain plans to go to […]
Just now breaking on MSNBC. More as the details come out. UPDATE 1: The DOJ will be holding a news conference at 1:20pm est today to discuss the charges returned by the grand jury. UPDATE 2 (and bumped) A PDF of the indictment is available here. The news conference is just now starting (1/2 hour […]
Because Bush has had nothing but success in his foreign policy: President George W. Bush on Thursday sharply criticized Democratic front-runner Barack Obama’s pledge to meet Cuban leader Raul Castro without preconditions, leaping squarely into the race to succeed him. “I’m not suggesting there’s never a time to talk, but I’m suggesting now is not […]
Yesterday our defense secretary, Robert Gates, blamed NATO for the problems in Afghanistan. Needless to say they didn’t take to kindly to that criticism and now Gates is trying to save face: Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that sending U.S. Marines to Afghanistan will keep pressure on the Taliban and doesn’t “reflect dissatisfaction” with […]
Seems like we hear these headlines all the time. This week was no exception. The problem with it? This “key leader” was killed over a year ago: The U.S. command in Baghdad this week ballyhooed the killing of a key al Qaeda leader but later admitted that the military had declared him dead a year […]
Seems like we get alot of these stories anymore: Three people were arrested and another was being sought Saturday for allegedly plotting to blow up a fuel line that feeds John F. Kennedy International Airport and runs through residential neighborhoods, authorities said. The plot never got past the planning stages. It posed no threat to […]
So he says: In two interviews before the Army took McCain and 60 Minutes on the heavily guarded visit to the al-Shorja market last Sunday, the senator said security had improved in Iraq. Upon his return, he also told a news conference he had just come back from a neighborhood one could walk around in […]