Editors’ Blog - 2011
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08.03.11 | 12:08 pm
Bleak Horizon

Jim Sleeper looks out on the post-debt deal, post-Obama era.

08.03.11 | 12:17 pm
Withering on the Vine

Cantor: Dear Youngins’, that Medicare thing? Well, we need to talk about that.

08.03.11 | 12:35 pm
There Are Other News Networks

Al Jazeera reports overwhelmingly positive response in first few days on cable in NYC.

08.03.11 | 1:05 pm
The Untaken Offer

Israeli Labor MK Benjamin Ben-Eliezer says he and the Prime Minister offered Hosni Mubarak asylum several months ago when visiting him at Sharm el-Sheikh. But Mubarak declined.

“I met [Mubarak] in Sharm el-Sheikh and I told him that it was a short distance and that it might be a good chance to heal himself. I am convinced that the Israel government would have accepted him but he declined [the offer] because he was a patriot,” said Ben-Eliezer.

Ben-Eliezer, who was born in Basra, Iraq in 1936, is said to be close to Mubarak.

08.03.11 | 1:20 pm
Because I’m Very Into Robot Cars

New Chinese robot car makes 216 mile trip between Changsha and Wuhan in three hours and 20 minutes, with no human assistance.

An added thread of the story is that officials say the intellectual property behind the car was created entirely at China’s National University of Defense Technology.

08.03.11 | 3:00 pm
Women in Science and Tech

Why aren’t women taking jobs in science and technology?

08.03.11 | 4:50 pm
Happy Trails

Rep. Wu (D-OR) formally resigns his seat in Congress.

08.03.11 | 5:53 pm
Awesome

NJ Gov. Chris Christie (R) is a brusque guy who clearly has a temper about as big as the man himself. But watch this video from a week ago of Christie defending his appointment of 47-year old Muslim lawyer Sohail Mohammed to the state bench. He just won’t brook the nonsense and bigotry. Take a look, after the jump … Read More

08.04.11 | 5:32 am
The Wisconsin Recall$

Want to know how seriously next week’s recall elections in Wisconsin are being contested?

It’s easy. Just look at the money.

08.04.11 | 5:43 am
A King’s Ransom

There’s broad agreement that the debt ceiling deal just brokered will do little to fix our long-term fiscal issues. In fact it seems likely to make our short-term economic prospects even worse.

So what, if anything, did it accomplish with certitude?

Apparently, for the GOP, proof of the efficacy of legislative hostage-taking.