[Jonathan Alter, author of the new book “The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies”, is joining us as a guest blogger this week in the Editor’s Blog highlighting and discussing some key findings and revelations in his new book. — jmm]
DAY ONE:
In researching the book, I came to think that the 2012 campaign represented a peculiar role reversal. Barack Obama ran a corporate-style campaign that exploited the latest digital technology. Mitt Romney, the self-described “numbers guy,” ran a campaign based on a vague hope that Americans wanted change. Here’s part of how the Romney campaign rejected Big Data: Read More
As Drudge shows, the right is going to demand its pound of Crazy from Christie in the appointment to fill out Sen. Lautenberg’s term. Won’t be pretty.
Four year old shoots off finger with gun left on the couch while dad was smoking pot and taking prescription pills.
I got in touch with my correspondent on things Turkish and my main question – in addition to where is this going? – is who are the police? Read More
Most of the obituaries of Frank Lautenberg duly mention that he was the last World War II veteran serving in the Senate. It might be tempting to take that data point merely as proof that Lautenberg was really old (he was 89). But it marks the end of nearly 70 years in which a WWII vet has held a Senate seat.
Here’s a photo of Lautenberg during World War II, where he served in the Army Signal Corps from 1942-46 (no exact date is given for the photo): Read More
A new report out from the national ‘College Republicans’ has blistering news about the party’s standing among young voters. From the report: “In the focus group research conducted in January 2013, the young ‘winnable’ Obama voters were asked to say what words came to mind when they heard ‘Republican Party.’ The responses were brutal: closed-minded, racist, rigid, old-fashioned.”
And those are the ‘winnable’ ones.
Wall Street Journal ed board member blasts “totalitarians” behind new NYC bike-share program.
You remember last month’s Ricin drama with the Elvis impersonator arrestee who improbably claimed he’d been set up by a rival local performer and then that turned out to be true. Well, now we have this new case of letters to Bloomberg and Obama with much more threatening text in the letters about guns. As we reported on Friday, federal authorities have now zeroed in on a guy named Nathan Richardson down in Texas who authorities first got tipped to by his wife who says she saw “strange material” in the couple’s fridge and ricin-related searches on their home computer.
Well, now Richardson is claiming that he’s being framed by his wife. Here’s the latest.