Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert: You break the Hastert rule at your own risk.
The final vote hasn’t been gaveled, but it’s clear now that John Boehner has been re-elected as Speaker of the House. Still, the dissatisfaction in the GOP ranks was apparent. More details soon.
Late Update: It’s official.
Among the various weird artifacts and outcomes of British imperialism: the largest population of wild camels in the world is in the Australian Outback. Read More
Top filibuster reform advocates up criticism of watered down reform proposal.
Daniel Day-Lewis in the Lincoln Bedroom viewing the Gettysburg Address.
Republicans have been burning up the printing presses the past few days to let all concerned parties know they really, really mean it when they say they won’t raise the debt limit — which is to say, will tank the economy — unless Democrats agree to huge federal spending cuts they don’t actually support.
That threat’s been clear for a while, obviously. But if you thought the debt limit farce couldn’t get any more farcical, here’s an added layer. Read More
You gotta watch Joe Biden posing with senators and their families today on the first day of the new Congress.
A great shot of a mom being sworn in to the U.S. Senate.
One of the things we’re going to focus on this year in our IdeaLab section is just who controls the platforms and software ecosystems that shape how technology is affecting our lives. One thing I’m particularly curious about is computer mapping and how Google is using its digital mapping dominance to reach into whole industries you might not even think of them touching.
One of them is cars. Read More