Huffington Post:
In an interview with Katie Couric, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee said he would "absolutely" vote for Sarah Palin over Barack Obama. In the primary, it would depend on the other candidates, Huckabee said. But "she has more management experience and executive experience than Barack Obama," he argued.Huckabee also com (Read More)
Huffington Post:
CHICAGO — The White House and Illinois Democrats said Tuesday that their bid to hold on to President Barack Obama's old Senate seat won't be easy and their difficulties aren't just because of the scandal that engulfed ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich.Next year is the first major election for Democrats since Blagojevich was arres (Read More)
Daily Kos:
Rahm Emanuel apparently gave as homework to all White House Senior staffers Ron Brownstein's Saturday blog post in the Atlantic, in which Brownstein thumbs his nose a bit a "Democratic liberals" and touts how much of the Baucus plan got into Reid's bill. Both the Senate bill's priority on controlling long-term health care (Read More)
New York Times:
A year after the deadly assault in Mumbai that killed 163 people, the public outrage that many thought would usher in a political groundswell has dissipated.
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National Review Online:
On Saturday night, just after Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) secured enough votes to begin debate on Obamacare, Democrats were beaming -- and all I could think about was May 21, 2007. That was the day Reid successfully ushered another monstrosity deemed too big to fail onto the floor: comprehensive immigration (Read More)
CNN:
When Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina made his infamous "You lie!" outburst during the president's healthcare address to Congress in September, he wasn't the only one stepping into the spotlight. The next day, an Austin startup called Piryx set up a Web site to facilitate donations to Wilson. (Read More)
Huffington Post:
By Darlene Superville, APWASHINGTON -- In the history of U.S.-India relations, there's been plenty of broken bread and even a few crumbled Triscuits.American presidents have entertained India's leaders over fine wine and even finer food for the past 60 years -- at grand White House dinners with hundreds of guests in black-t (Read More)
National Review Online:
Touting what they call Eric Holder’s “reasonable decision” to transfer Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 plotters to Manhattan for a civilian trial, my friends Jim Comey and Jack Goldsmith put themselves in a quandary. When their Washington Post op-ed makes a reasonable point, it presents their own reasoning, not A (Read More)
Power Line:
President Obama said at a news conference today that he will "finish the job" in Afghanistan:After eight years, some of those years in which we did not have, I think, either the resources or the strategy to get the job done, it is my intention to finish the job. Obama added that he plans to announce his new course of actio (Read More)
National Review Online:
Rep. David Obey, the Democratic majordomo of the House Appropriations Committee, is proposing an income-tax hike, something that Democrats are congenitally disposed to do, with one familiar condition -- it’s only on the “wealthy” (wink, wink) -- and one slightly less common condition -- it’s presented as a dedicated surtax (Read More)