In 2012 President Obama became the first president to win two terms by a majority of votes cast since Ronald Reagan, back in 1984, and the first Democrat to do so since Franklin Roosevelt, back in 1936, and, yeah, you read that right. Yet now his administration drifts towards the 2014 mid-terms like a rudderless…
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Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. Move along.
In a near-parody of a non-denial denial, Brookings Scholar Dan Drezner explains that the New York Times blockbuster story “Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Think Tanks” gets it all wrong because, well, first of all, DC think tanks (like Brookings, for example) have to get their money from somewhere don’t they? And, and, anyway, the…
Here come the blimps! Rinse, and repeat every ten years
Way back in the day, so far back that Ronald Reagan still had a functioning short-term memory, I worked for a very smart woman who had an odd passion for blimps. Not dirigibles, mind you. Dee was totally not a rigid frame gal. I don’t know why she insisted on the distinction so, you know,…
Ross Douthat’s Obama Outrage O’ the Week
I’m in the habit of reading Ross Douthat’s blog “Evaluations” at the New York Times, which, when he is not ruminating about the reverberative, not to say rebarbarative, phallocentricity of John Melius, is largely devoted to Ross’s mostly honest account of “thoughtful” conservatives like Ross to craft a domestic policy for the Republican Party that…
The CIA lies and lies and lies. And the Obama Administration is totally down with that.
What has our CIA been up to recently? Mark Mazzetti and Carl Hulse of the New York Times fill us in: An internal investigation by the C.I.A. has found that its officers penetrated a computer network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee in preparing its damning report on the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation program. The…
Department of Unintentional Irony/Hypocrisy/Stupidity Department: Kyla Wazana Tompkins, not thinking importantly
You’re Anna North and you have to write an “Op-Talk” for the New York Times called “If You Read This, You Might Never Drink a Latte Again” So how the hell are you going to fill up a column with that? If you’re smart, you’ll talk to Kyla Wazana Tompkins, a professor of English and…
Obama bad, Republicans good!
Yes, I am trying to drive traffic these days. Why do you ask? I can’t help beating up on the president, thanks to his new proclamation on “carbon pollution”—that is to say, pollution that is not pollution—because the new regs the president is pushing are intended to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide, which does…
NYT gets its penis caught in a wringer
One thing is clear: Jill Abramson is not the worst manager at the New York Times. Let the shell-shocked media editor David Carr put the whole thing in perspective: I have witnessed some fraught moments at the New York Times. Jayson Blair was a friend of mine. I watched Howell Raines fly into a mountain…
NYT reports on “intense debate” within the Obama Administration by quoting Republicans
There’s an “intense debate” going on within the Obama Administration over how aggressive the U.S. should be in countering Vladimir Putin’s semi-invasion of the eastern Ukraine, according to New York Times reporters Peter Baker and C.J. Chivers. Should the U.S. continue to “coordinate” with European nations, or should it act alone? So far, Mr. Obama…
Carlos Slim Helú? Who he?
Michael Barbaro has an intriguing story in the New York Times today on the finances of Jeb Bush (spoiler alert: they’re not pretty), but even more intriguing to me is the following: As a paid adviser to [failing Wall Street giant Lehman Brothers] in the summer of 2008, he met with Carlos Slim Helú, a…