Is the Globe getting off Coakley’s bus?
Brian McGrory is the former metro news editor of the Boston Globe who has returned to his post as metro columnist. Today McGrory takes a look at the campaign of Democrat Martha Coakley in the Massachusetts senatorial contest.
The Globe has been in the tank for Coakley. It not only endorsed her, it also [...]
She’s Had Enough
Nancy Morgan, columnist and news editor for RightBias.com, writes that although she’s been a law-abiding citizen all her life and always played by the rules, that’s about to change. The early morning passage of the Senate health care bill on Christmas eve requires every American to purchase health insurance, but she will not abide by [...]
White House Divided on Goal of Defeating Taliban
E.J. Dionne, who’s as plugged-in to the Obama White House as any columnist, writes today:
some administration officials are asking why it is that al-Qaeda has weakened even as the Taliban has grown stronger? These skeptics now question whether routing the Taliban is actually essential to Obama’s core goal of defeating al-Qaeda.
As of last week, [...]
Rogin Replaces Rozen at FP
Laura Rozen has broken a lot of news over the last six months from her perch at the Cable blog on the website of Foreign Policy magazine. Last week it was announced that she’d been hired by Politico. Her replacement at Foreign Policy was announced this morning, and it’s a name that will be very [...]
Bob Novak, Boy Reporter
The news of Bob Novak’s death recalled a line of Roy Blount’s
about a deceased friend: “I was shocked to learn of his death. It
was so unlike him.” So it was with Bob Novak. He was so
relentless in pursuit of his boyhood dreams, so delighted to be
[...]
Don’t Mess With Fred Smith
The American Conservative Union gets caught in flagrante delicto — and not for the first time. What’s really amazing about this story is that anyone thought they could pull a fast one on Fred Smith, who was awarded a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, and two Purple Hearts for his service in Vietnam before returning [...]
