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On Sunday, former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel released the first commercial for his campaign to become Chicago’s Mayor on Youtube.
Emanuel left his D.C. job in September. He officially announced his candidacy in the race for Chicago City Hall on Saturday.
The ad begins by emphasizing Emanuel’s roots Read More
Pat Healy notes that Hillary is for capping the number of troops going to Iraq, but not for capping the funds that pay for them.
Eliot Spitzer has a new DOT Commissioner.
Spitzer’s promise to ease driver license access may help terrorists, argues a critic.
Larry Littlefield Read More
Now that Hillary Clinton is expanding on her Iraq position by advocating a cap on troop levels and setting new conditions on funding for the Iraqi government, the burden of detailing an Iraq plan should logically shift more towards Barack Obama, who yesterday took his first official step towards a presidential bid. Read More
There’s a new biography about Rudy Giuliani coming out by a publisher called Wiley.
The president of the National Institute for Latino Policy went to hear Herman Badillo speak at the Harvard Club and found himself “in the midst of the ‘Other New York.’”
Eliot Spitzer’s former campaign manager Ryan Read More
Screams could be heard echoing across Brooklyn on a clear day this past November, when news of 24-year-old Joshua Foer’s book deal made its way around town. It wasn’t just the ungodly advance Mr. Foer received—an eye-popping $1.25 million—for his first-ever literary venture. Nor was it the fact that the proposal and its celebrity author Read More
Post-trial motions will be filed in the next few weeks in Thomas v. Page, the Illinois libel case decided yesterday to the tune of $7 million for former Chicago Bear place-kicker and current chief justice of the Illinois State Supreme Court.
A jury decided, in a bit under 8 hours, that Bill Page, a Read More
Conquering adversity is the common theme in the autobiographical accounts of American politicians from Ben Franklin to Bill Clinton: As our hero struggles to overcome an unjust fate, public life presents itself as the solution to a set of personal difficulties.
As he makes clear in the pages of The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama Read More
The Washington Times, which mounts even less of an effort to mask its partisan leanings than the Fox News Channel, is an occasional source of amusement with its breathless adherence to the GOP message machine. Like this morning’s if-we-keep-repeating-it-maybe-we-can-make-it-so headline and story:
Kerry gaffe loses independents for his party
Here’s the problem with Read More
The Washington Times, which mounts even less of an effort to mask its partisan leanings than the Fox News Channel, is an occasional source of amusement with its breathless adherence to the GOP message machine. Like this morning’s if-we-keep-repeating-it-maybe-we-can-make-it-so headline:
Kerry gaffe loses independents for his party
It makes us wonder how the Read More
A few days ago this pro-Giuliani blog laid out an intriguing blueprint for the former mayor to follow as a way of getting around his inconvenient position on abortion rights and make it through a Republican primary.
One of the basic ideas (and Rudyblog has a much lengthier explanation here) that Read More
