In case you missed the news last night, a big shock and a big loss in the world of journalism. Michael Hastings died yesterday in a car crash in Los Angeles. He was 33. He was probably known best, among many other things, for the blockbuster 2010 story in Rolling Stone that led President Obama to fire then-commander of US forces in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal.
In case you missed the news last night, a big shock and a big loss in the world of journalism. Michael Hastings died yesterday in a car crash in Los Angeles. He was 33. He was probably known best, among many other things, for the blockbuster 2010 story in Rolling Stone that led President Obama to fire then-commander of US forces in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal.
Our report on why congressional oversight of the intelligence community doesn’t work very well and maybe isn’t supposed to. Fascinating piece.
House Republicans appear to be coalescing around an attempt to kill immigration reform. But they’re not getting any help from this CBO study, requested by arch-immigration reform foe Sen. Jeff Sessions. It shows that rather than ballooning the deficit the current Senate bill would reduce the deficit by almost $200 billion over the next decade.
House Oversight Committee Chair Darrell Issa (R-CA) says he is “deeply disappointed” that Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) decided to release the full unedited interviews from the IRS investigation.
These supplement the bits and pieces selectively leaked to the press by Issa’s staff.
Wondering if the NSA is monitoring America’s phone calls? The agency’s chief supplied an answer, over and over again.
Shorter WSJ columnist: Let’s be honest, it takes two to have a sexual assault.
Don’t look now but medical costs may actually be starting to go down.
Silver: Politico cofounders lack “curiosity for the world outside of the bubble.”
The future of advertising is definitely creating ads like this that are so awesome that people like me are are mind-controlled into posting them in my blog even when the big corporation isn’t paying anything for posting it.
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