In Mike’s most recent Nota Bene, he points us to a disturbing, if not altogether surprising little vignette from Capitol Hill. When House Democrats gathered on Friday for their end-of-the week caucus […]
Phone call from Camelot
By Patrick Vecchio I got home from running a few errands today and the numeral “1” was flashing red on the answering machine. The message was for me — and it was […]
Quotabull
Exxon Mobil is acting like a dinosaur now, not adopting to a changing environment. — Stephen Viederman, a New York shareholder, after “Exxon Mobil’s chairman and chief executive, Rex W. Tillerson, defeated […]
There is no opposition party in Washington
In describing the Democratic response to Bush’s sabre-rattling toward Iran, Power of Narrative’s Arthur Silber summed things up neatly: They don’t object because — they don’t object. The only thing wrong with […]
Ted Kennedy doing his part in the War on Education
Our much-beloved senior senator from the state of Massachusetts is stumping for a massive No Child Left Untested Behind re-up, and we ought to all be concerned. As the footer to the […]
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