Like many of you, my formative political experiences were in my 20s. And for me, that meant the Clinton years. I was just shy of 24 when Bill Clinton was inaugurated in January 1993 and living in Washington in my early 30s when he left office. I don’t think anyone could be a bigger Clinton diehard than I was in those days. And if it were still the mid- or late 90s, with all the frivolity and nonsense that characterized those years, I still would be. When I was trying to make my way into journalism in the late 90s, I considered writing a book at the phenomenon of Clinton-hating, which I still think would be a fascinating book because feelings about Bill Clinton, on both sides of the equation, are a fascinating way to explore intricacies of that decade.
Sen. Kaine (D-VA) wonders whether senate GOP is “mature” enough to handle national security issues.
The University of Oklahoma football team and coaches line up wearing all black in the Everest Training Center in protest of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of Oklahoma on Monday, March. 9, 2015.
Vice President Biden released a blistering statement attacking Republican Senators decision to send a letter advising the Islamic Republic of Iranian to ignore US Presidential diplomacy. Text after the jump …
Lindsey Graham has a revealing answer as to why he’s never used email: “I’ve tried not to have a system where I can just say the first dumb thing that comes to my mind. I’ve always been concerned.”
The 5 GOP governor/presidential hopefuls who stand to lose the most if SCOTUS axes Obamacare in red states.
I wanted to give you a brief update on the Israeli election, which is coming up on March 17th. The poll of polls maintained by Haaretz now shows Likud and Zionist Camp/Labor tied at 23 seats. Their count tends to run behind a day or so, but there’s been a flurry of new polls. I don’t have enough of a sense of the comparative merits of the difference in pollsters to be able to sift beneath that topline number.
I want to touch on something I’ve been thinking a lot about and have alluded to a few times. Just as we’re hearing more and more about ISIS and the threat it poses, we’re actually seeing more and more evidence that it is losing ground on its own turf. Let me start with two pieces in The Washington Post in the last couple days.
First, “In campaign against terrorism, U.S. enters period of pessimism and gloom.“