Tag: the washington post

Even though the NSA tapping has gone on long before President Obama ever took the oath of office, or even ran for President, it's time for some transparency and answers on the questions floating out there.

The Washington Post is out with a new article today on the NSA internet snooping: A classified NSA slide obtained by The Washington Post and published here for the first time lists “Two Types of Collection.” One is PRISM, the NSA program that collects information from technology companies, which was first revealed in reports by […]

“Fair and balanced” sure has an interesting meaning when it comes to Fox News. We’re all used to their highly partisan reporting, but this story takes the political involvement of the network to a whole new level. Roger Ailes, the longtime Republican media guru, founder of Fox News and its current chairman, had some advice […]

Bain Capital has fallen off the radar lately, but an explosive new piece in the Washington Post should put it back in the spotlight: Mitt Romney’s financial company, Bain Capital, invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries like China and India. […]

“The Fix” in today’s Washington Post offers up this headline: Obama: The most polarizing president. Ever. When you look at how divided this country is that could be easy to conclude, but is it President Obama’s fault? First let’s take a look at how they come to this conclusion: For 2011, Obama’s third year in […]

Here’s the WaPo’s Ruth Marcus yesterday on the Emma Sullivan tweet to Sam Brownback: Emma Sullivan, you’re lucky you’re not my daughter. (Dangerous sentence, I know: My daughters might agree.) If you were my daughter, you’d be writing that letter apologizing to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback for the smart­alecky, potty-mouthed tweet you wrote after meeting […]