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President Obama is enjoying a bit of a post-election honeymoon, but the same cannot be said for his signature legislation.

Events get driven by something. The motive power behind what happens in policy and politics can often lie hidden like the mass of an iceberg underneath the sea. Those who bother wondering why President Obama refuses to compromise on anything in orde…

(Paul Mirengoff) While conservatives fixate on the “fiscal cliff,” the left, characteristically, is thinking further ahead about how to advance a transformative agenda in the Senate during the next two years. With only 55 Democrats in the new Sena…

According to an Israeli newspaper, former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, the current mayor of Chicago, blasted Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for betting "on the wrong man" in the last presidential election. The allegatio…

184,908, at the moment. But he’s a newby on Twitter and hasn’t even tweeted yet. Oh, now 185,914. Impressive. Climbing. Ascending! I see he’s “following” 7, but it turns out all 7 are himself, in various different languages. I went there via Twitc…

Well, House leadership made sure to elevate like-minded members to leadership; they took care to co-opt the Republican Study Committee; they packed the Steering Committee, which chooses committee assignments, with a bunch of loyalists.  Now we’re se…

The White House today honored “the 57th Anniversary of the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat” by tweeting a picture of President Barack Obama: Today is the 57th Anniversary of the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. Pic: President Ob…

The short version: on Friday morning the US Social Security office at Casa Grande, Arizona, was targeted by an IED. Fortunately, nobody was hurt; and equally fortunately, they have already have a suspect in custody. His name is Abdullatif A. Aldosary, …

**Written by Doug Powers Shortly before the election, the Obama campaign sent out this email: “If you’ve waited until the last minute to give, this is the moment. This is the last time I’ll ask you.” Joe Biden can go gaffe-free for longer than …

Samuel L. Jackson has faith in First Lady Michelle Obama.

“A detached Romney tends wounds in seclusion after failed White House bid”? He doesn’t look detached or wounded and he’s obviously not in seclusion while riding a roller coaster. The text emotes: Gone are the minute-by-minute schedules and the swa…

The Washington Post reports on the reemergence of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). According to Bruce Reidel, a former CIA counterterrorism expert now with the Brookings Institution, “what we’re now seeing is al Qaeda in Iraq’s revival, not only as a mo…

Recently, speaking to a television station in Macon, Georgia, Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) said, “I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge.”  The Americans for Tax Reform pledge, by Grover Norquist, was signed by almost every Re…

Invented by David Carroll, professor of physics at Wake Forest University: He says the new plastic lighting source can be made into any shape, and it produces a better quality of light than compact fluorescent bulbs which have become very popular in re…

It has been a little more than a month since Hurricane Sandy made landfall and pounded the Atlantic shores of New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut. Within hours, government big dogs, the president included, were on the scene promising speedy and comp…

“… St James’s Palace has announced.”

The question of the day, pithily articulated.

Email from the neighborhood listserve: Our new neighbors across the street replaced their toilets. They have a fully functional Mayfair toilet for anyone who is interested. It is very clean, since it was transported in their vehicle! If you are intere…

“The Supreme Court on Monday released additional orders from its Friday Conference, but the list did not include any action on the ten cases dealing with the same-sex marriage issue. It now appears that those cases will be rescheduled for the Conferen…