Barack Obama is defending his Thursday announcement that he may slow his promised withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, saying that he has said all along that he would work with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to effect a withdrawal timetable that would not destabilize Iraq further.After his first comments on slowing the withdrawal caused a firestorm in the press, Obama hastily called a second news conference later in the day to clarify his remarks. Mr. Obama said at his first news conference on Thursday that he planned a “thorough assessment” of his Iraq policy when he visited that country this summer. Full story...
Last week New York City won a statewide contest for best tasting tap water, something Gotham has long been known for.
Politico goes to the actuaries for the hard numbers.
It’s a macabre point to raise on the night when Palin will speak to the convention here — but a look at the actuarial tables insurance companies use to evaluate customers shows that it’s not an irrelevant one.
Because I am a complete Google whore, I had to immediately download the test version of Chrome, the companay's first-ever browser, when it came out yesterday.
You should all be following along with Michelangelo Signorile either on his blog or on SiriusXM where he has gone into "Republican drag" at the convention to meet our enemies.
Yesterday Page 6 leaked a rumor that the powers that be at MSNBC are unhappy with new anchor Rachel Maddow's mannish appearance.
Via Ben Smith at Politico, who calls it one of the "all-time great TV news goofs."
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Log Cabin Republicans head Patrick Sammon was just on CNN defending John McCain. Sammon says that while he disagrees with the anti-gay planks in the Republican platform, "The platform is largely symbolic and is forgotten the day after the convention.
Now playing in Wasilla, Alaska.(Via - Band Of Thebes via Andrew Sullivan)
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Pace University student Jason Pravia, 19, was murdered in his Chelsea apartment on Saturday morning after he left a downtown party.
Joe Lieberman at the convention last night: "And that brings me directly to why I am here tonight. What, after all, is a Democrat like me doing at a Republican convention like this?"Selling out the people who originally put him in office? Going to the highest bidder? Looking for new ways to fuck the country?Lieberman answers his own question: "The answer is simple.
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