SPECTER'S TIRED ROUTINE.... Apropos of nothing, Arlen Specter just wants everyone to know that he really doesn't like the idea of Eric Holder becoming the next attorney general. A leading Republi(...)
In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: House meets at... 10:00 a.m.: Legislative Business Fifteen "One Minutes" Per Side Last Vote Predicted... 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. S(...)
LINING UP PANETTA SUPPORT.... Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Jay Rockefeller were quick out of the gate on Monday with negative reactions to Leon Panetta becoming the next head of the CIA. If, howeve(...)
A government spokesman said today that Israel “welcomes” a proposal from France and Egypt to end the fighting in Gaza that has gone on for 12 days. The precise details of the proposal(...)
The media coverage of the events related to Minnesota's Senate election and subsequent recount has been so poor that it is difficult to determine what happened. The erosion of Senator Coleman's(...)
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... Quit Whining, It's Just Your Money Newsweek's Larry Kaplow visited the newly-opened U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Sounds like a weekend at Club Med: I'm a mere lay(...)
FEINSTEIN GOES ROGUE.... Just a few weeks ago, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) joined her colleagues in urging Rod Blagojevich not to fill Illinois' vacant Senate seat, warning him that his appo(...)
Yesterday we received the following statement from Israeli embassy spokesman Jonathan Peled: Initial inquiries by Israeli forces operating in the area indicate that a number of mortar shells were(...)
Wednesday, and the weather sucks in the northeast. Here's a winter mix of the pundits. Maureen Dowd: And believe me, she talks a whole lot better than the former junior senator from Ne(...)
This latest suicide related to the credit crisis reminded me of the general belief that in 1929, many stockbrokers jumped out of windows as they heard about their loses. As an econ professor fri(...)