Sorry, my inner adolescent couldn’t resist that headline. But it looks like Rick Santorum, America’s favorite ex-Senator, is seriously mulling a White House bid in 2012: Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) gave his clearest words to date that he is seriously mulling a 2012 presidential bid. “Absolutely — absolutely taking a look,” he told ABC’s [...]
Image by Violentz via Flickr President Obama is set to speak to our nation’s school children on September 8th to encourage them to work hard and study hard: President Obama will deliver a nationally-televised address to students next Tuesday on the importance of taking responsibility for their success in school, which the White House calls [...]
Wow. Rich vocalizes my concerns about the right-wing violence coming to the United States in the near future: No, the biggest contributor to this resurgence of radicalism remains panic in some precincts about a new era of cultural and demographic change. As the sociologist Daniel Bell put it, “What the right as a whole fears [...]
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George W. Bush via last.fm I remember thinking at the time of the lead-up to the Iraq war that President Bush thought he was going to wage some kind of battle on the Armageddon war front. It turns out, I was right: Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 [...]
There’s a great piece by Clive Crook in the June 28th Financial Times: A White House that is more interested in promotion than in product development has another great drawback: it squanders talent. Mr Obama has impeccable taste in advisers: he has scooped up many of the country’s pre-eminent experts in almost every area of [...]
