The Pentagon is unveiling its plan to repeal don’t ask, don’t tell next week. Kind of amazing. It’s not a piece of legislation, just a preliminary plan. Even so, good for them. Of course, it ultimately does have to take the form of legislation, which means it needs 60 votes in the dear old Senate. [...]
Obama uses his first State of the Union speech to promise he will make the creation of a million jobs his priority in the year to come, telling Americans: ‘We don’t quit. I don’t quit’Barack Obama bowed to the wave of public anger in the US over unemployment and other recession-related issues when he [...]
President uses first state of the union speech to make job creation overwhelming priority for coming yearBarack Obama bowed to public anger against his presidency by using his first state of the union speech to address many of the concerns of voters and to make creation of more than a million jobs the overwhelming priority [...]
Scott Brown is going prime time. The Republican who rocketed to national prominence by winning a U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts is scheduled to appear Thursday on “The Jay Leno Show.” NBC spokeswoman Tracy St.
In a unique experiment in democratic transparency, Barack Obama – a BlackBerry owner, and the first American president to use email while in office – has agreed to copy G2 in on his otherwise highly confidential electronic communications. Each week, we present a selection from recent daysTo: Malia Obama Subject: Re: Massachusetts — WTF [...]
Scott Brown’s seizure of Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts seat in the Senate seat has breathed new life into a dispirited rightThe mood in the lunch room of the Florida yacht club was electric. Though the freezing temperatures of ice-bound Massachusetts were a thousand miles away from the warm sunshine of Daytona Beach the talk at the [...]
For a US politician to declare he loves his pick-up truck is one thing, but it would need something else to win British voters over”I love this old truck, it’s brought me closer to the people of this state,” says Scott Brown, Massachusetts senator-elect. It makes you wonder how close exactly. Up the kerb and [...]
Network that sought to challenge domination of Rush Limbaugh declares bankruptcy and will go off airFirst Massachusetts, now Air America. A leading US liberal radio network, launched six years ago with the comedian Al Franken among its presenters to challenge the dominance of Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives, has declared bankruptcy and will go off [...]
A key legislative committee in California revived a bill Thursday to create a government-run health care system in the nation’s most populous state, two days after Massachusetts elected a senator who opposes the president’s national health care plan…