Fenty Endorses Walker
Adrian Fenty, the Democratic former mayor of D.C. says he agrees with what Scott Walker is doing in Wisconsin. Do other Dem leaders feel the same? This seems to me a hugely important fact: Adrian Fenty, the Democratic former mayor of the District of Columbia says he agrees with what Scott Walker …In Defense of Vegemite
Obama may find Vegemite, Australia's national condiment, "horrible" but growing up in Australia, I became addicted to it. I smiled when I read President's Obama's remarks about how disgusting he finds Vegemite, Australia's national condiment. "It's horrible" he exclaimed at a Virginia school …Pawlenty: GOP Nominee by Default?
Pawlenty would be a fine president. Yet, I've never met anyone enthusiastic about him. Can he reach the presidency with everyone saying, "He's fine, he'll do"? Jonathan Chait reasons his way to Pawlenty as the most plausible GOP nominee for 2012. Chait is applying the Sherlock Holmes methods: …Will GOP Give Climate Science a Fair Shake?
The House is holding hearings today on the science of climate change. But can credible testimony really change the minds of the GOP's climate skeptics? House Democrats persuaded Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) to hold a hearing today on climate science. At a time when …How to Sell Your Divorce to Values Voters
Like Newt Gingrich, former Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer is on his third marriage. But Roemer has a unique strategy for explaining his marital history. Byron York has a hilarious account of Buddy Roemer's speech to the Faith and Freedom coalition in Waukee, Iowa. The former Louisiana governor …Prison Rape: Not Inevitable
If U.S. prisons adopted better security standards we could halve the number of sexually abused inmates. Why then aren't these standards being adopted? Some US prisons do a much better job than others of protecting inmates from sexual abuse. In the current New York Review of Books , David …Obama’s Guantanamo About-Face
President Obama's promise to close Guantanamo may be a casualty of the "Arab spring." Hypothesis: President Obama's promise to close Guantanamo is a casualty of the "Arab spring." As Eli Lake notes in a characteristically in-depth report here , the Obama administration has transferred about 67 …