In today’s Politico Playbook, Mike Allen reports an interesting exchange between US Vice President Joe Biden and a Chinese student (link added): VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN, speaking to a student today…
This morning, POLITICO Playbook’s Mike Allen reports: OBAMA IS ROLLING IN A BRAND-NEW, JET-BLACK , $1.1-million armored bus with blacked out windows. The Secret Service owns it, but it’s not…
Updated: 16th August 2011 11:00 a.m. Link added. Reader Alert: Snark attack! Snark attack! That’s what I’ve suffered, and if you don’t wish to share it, stop here. Borrowing a…
Back in the days when I regularly read The New York Observer, I looked forward to Nicholas von Hoffman’s columns. His were essays marked by style, passion and intelligence. While…
Progressives have roasted Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for telling Iowa State Fair goers that corporations were people. Rants about ‘corporate personhood’ popped up everywhere. But ‘corporate personhood’ is…
‘It’s the economy, stupid!’ That phrase widely attributed to Bill Clinton in his successful 1992 campaign spotlights what’s been wrong with our past two Democratic presidents. They substituted in their…
Ah! The Summer of ‘64. While my peers rushed for Beatles and Beach Boys tickets and Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, I read Ayn Rand. Between high school and…
Adam Smith was not known for his fondness for the performing arts. By contrast, John Maynard Keynes was the de facto arts minister in Britain during World War II. He…
Mike Allen reports at Politico.com (7/31/11 at 1238) on the shape of the Republican triumph on social policy. The only positive for the Democrats is that the nation does not…
Update: 2011/0724 16:30 Kevin Cullen’s Boston Globe column today is a must read. ‘A Lingering Question for the FBI’s Director’ asks Robert Mueller, who’s up for another two-year extension, what…
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