Ben Smith at Politico: Many reporters have been (rightly) cautious about describing an assault on a Jindal aide in New Orleans last Friday as linked to politics, and Jindal’s office has done its best to damp down that storyline. But a New Orleans Police Department spokesman now tells a conservative blogger that the assault was [...]
Fox News: The Oregon teacher who announced his intention to “dismantle and demolish the Tea Party” has been placed on administrative leave until the school district where he works finishes its investigation and decides his fate. The state’s Teacher Standards & Practices Commission is also conducting an investigation into Jason Levin, a media teacher at [...]
For those of you who don’t read “Deep Thoughts”: I had a client, Lee Drysdale, who directed the movie “Leather Jackets”. I fired him for a variety of reasons one of which is the following story. The guy who wrote this song, Ian Curtis, was a friend of Lee’s. Jealous with Ian over some bull, [...]
Nasa’s newest spacecraft, the Obama 13 Times Online: President Obama promised a delayed “leap into the future†for Nasa yesterday in a speech designed to quell a growing dispute over his cuts to manned space exploration, and to persuade critics that America will eventually put astronauts on Mars. Despite cancelling Constellation, the $108 billion (more [...]
Politico: Republicans are salivating over the prospect of winning back the House in November, and they’re planning to produce a new “Contract With America†in the hopes of sealing the deal. The catch: They don’t agree yet on what should be in it. House Minority Whip Eric Cantor wants a document, akin to Newt Gingrich’s [...]
The Hill: Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) accused the Obama administration of stalling a congressional investigation into the Fort Hood shootings and threatened to start issuing subpoenas. His vow opens a new rift with the White House for the Independent Lieberman, as well as the possibility of President Barack Obama’s first legal [...]
Fox News: More than 800 law enforcement agents swooped down on a massive human smuggling ring in Arizona early Thursday morning, delivering a “stunning blow” to a criminal network that helped shuttled illegal immigrants all around the country. Thursday’s strike is the largest coordinated action ever led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which partnered with [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Tea party protesters marked tax day Thursday with exhortations against “gangster government” and appeals from Republicans seeking their grass-roots clout in November elections, a prospect both tempting and troubling to those in the loose movement. Several thousand rallied in Washington’s Freedom Plaza in the shadow of the Ronald Reagan office building, capping [...]
Politico: The Republican rhetoric sounded tough on financial regulatory reform early this week. “Shame on the president,†said Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), who complained that President Barack Obama was derailing bipartisan negotiations on Wall Street reform for short-term political gain. But behind such tough talk is a realization within Republican ranks that several of their [...]
The Hill: Republican Senate candidates outraised their Democratic rivals in the first quarter. Much of that money went to non-incumbents. Republicans had five of the top six fundraisers among Senate candidates and only one of them was an incumbent — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). The top 10 GOP Senate candidates outraised the top 10 Democratic [...]
