As you’ve no doubt seen, a stretch of the Northeast, from New York to Boston, is bundling down for a mammoth blizzard that may be anywhere from a historic storm to just a big storm. Our New York City staff is going to be working remotely tomorrow; our headquarters will be closed. But personally the major crisis was that I had let this epic storm coincide with our getting perilously low on my supply of Grady’s Cold Brew Ice Coffee. And in case you think I’m kidding, I’m not.
With everything that has happened over the last six-odd months, we wanted to do a story on African-American and Hispanic police officers – how they’re reacting, what they’re thinking in the aftermath of Ferguson and Garner. As you’d expect, getting people to talk was extremely difficult. But Aurin Squire did get people to talk. And what he heard was fascinating and in many cases not what you’d likely expect. Check it out. A must-read piece I’m very proud of.
Former journalist and stuck backspace key victim Sharyl Attkisson will testify at Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch’s confirmation hearing.
Jeff Goldberg walks through the Boehner/Netanyahu Pact on every conceivable path and can’t find one where it’s not a disaster. Too true. Painfully true. To be clear, he’s talking about a disaster for Israel and its security – not necessarily Netanyahu’s electoral fortunes. He doesn’t address that. Jeff also sees the move – or at least does so in this article – exclusively through the lens of Netanyahu’s Iran fixation. I tend to think domestic politics plays a very large role as well. I would find the nature of the Iranian threat to Israel more convincing if the leaders of Israel’s defense establishment saw it the way Netanyahu does. And they do not. Unlike Rabin, Barak or Sharon, he is no military man, though he served in one of the IDF’s elite units as a young man. But that question is almost secondary to the key point Jeff makes, which is that in a fight he almost certainly cannot win (coercing Obama into abandoning his Iran policy) he is directly and immediately threatening – and more than threatening, concretely damaging – a lynchpin of Israeli security: the US alliance. The damage is not just with this President, who after all will be out of office in less than two years, but with Democrats and even American Jewry.
Indiana Gov. abandons plans to launch state-controlled news service to compete with actual news media.
Got questions? I’ll be answering any and all of your questions in The Hive (sub req) tomorrow at 3 PM, Thursday January 29th, 2015. Get your questions in now and I’ll see you tomorrow afternoon.
Virginia pol calls African-American reporter “boy” during argument.
Early Sarah Palin champion turns against her after bizarre Iowa speech.
Jindal uses Louisiana state website to defend ‘Muslim non-go zone’ faceplant.
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