Word broke today that Barack Obama’s funniest speechwriter Jon Lovett — performing above at the Washington Improv (giving an impeccable impersonation of Arianna Huffington) and who along with lead Obama wordsmith, Jon Favreau, was the genius this year behind President Obama’s Trump-stirring White House Correspondent’s Dinner speech — will be leaving DC to write funny…
Bleak views of the US economy abound. Real unemployment for August — which according to a monthly newsletter report prepared by Leo Hindery includes discouraged workers (3.9 M), part time of necessity workers (8.8 M), and marginally attached workers (2.6 M) those on the unemployment roles — is up to 29.3 million workers, or 18.
(photo credit: Minh Le) My friend Minh Le who has been doing a lot of work in Mongolia lately took this shot from the air while flying over Japan. He sent it in response to a note I posted on Facebook noting that Mt. Rainier is like Seattle’s Mt. Fuji.
Most Americans know former First Lady Laura Bush as a strong supporter of education — and she puts her time and travel into this cause. What is less known about Bush is how committed she was to international bridge-building and encouraging Americans to connect abroad.
Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters In September 2008, then US Senator Lincoln Chafee did what many other smart, sensible Republicans should do today. He distanced himself from the pugnacious, anti-informed, increasingly deluded and violence-hugging wing of his GOP party.
The fact that the GOP is now experiencing the kind of outrageous character assaults against Muslims that many Dems, like US House Representative Keith Ellison, have endured only means that the push back has come much later than it should have.
This morning, I hope to reflect a bit about this interesting report that the Center for American Progress just released, titled “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America“, but will be doing so from taxis, buses, and cars trying to make my way back from upper New York.
. . .A clip from an exchange I had yesterday morning on C-Span’s Washington Journal with host Greta Brawner. We got into quite a bit about the currents that come next in Libyan governance and also discussed the different model of intervention President Obama has hatched.
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Some thoughts on how Obama may have constructed a new approach to foreign intervention on last night’s Rachel Maddow Show.
Like Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein was also a horrendous thug whose arbitrary and brutal rule resulted in the deaths of vast numbers of his own citizens — but there is no doubt that taking Saddam out removed one of the effective constraints on Iran.
