David Leonhardt has the key takeaways on today’s new unemployment numbers.
The NEA, the nation’s largest union, takes first steps to endorsing Obama in 2012.
Sen. Levin (D-MI) says he believes people at “high levels” of the Pakistani intelligence services knew the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. He plans on opening an investigation.
John Yoo, notorious torture advocate, says President Obama made a big mistake killing Osama bin Laden.
How did Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), avid opponent of President Obama’s health care reform and Mitt Romney’s version of it from Massachusetts, manage to support ‘RomneyCare’ as recently as 2007? DeMint’s latest angle is to say that Romney somehow fooled him into supporting it. The record says otherwise.
Turns out that once you take Medicare Phase-Out out of the Ryan Plan, it doesn’t even balance the budget. And that’s even if you make the highly dubious assumption that his big new upper income tax cuts don’t reduce revenue.
Seems worth noting, no?
Delta commuter airline pilot refuses to fly until two Muslim passengers are removed from the plane.
Andy Card, President Bush’s former Chief of Staff, who helped oversee the epic ‘Mission Accomplished’ victory lap and jet fighter landing, says President Obama has “pounded his chest” too much over the success of the bin Laden raid and shown too much “pride.”
South Carolina emerges as the latest Labor flashpoint in dispute with Boeing.