Last night, Lara Logan, a 60 Minutes correspondent, apologized for a story on last year’s terrorist attacks in Libya. The retraction followed a report from The Washington Post that a 60 Minutes source, Dylan Davies, had contradicted his previous account to the FBI.
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Virginia Governor Puts Losses Behind Him
A delusional Terry McAuliffe, bottle of Bacardi in hand, went on MSNBC in June 2008 to announce that Hillary Clinton, whose campaign he was managing, would win the Democratic nomination for president. He was horribly and utterly mistaken. Last night, Virginia’s governorship securely in hand, the cruel shadow of defeat appeared finally to lift from […]
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Kentucky’s Health Care Rollout Humming Right Along
Two weeks ago, President Obama thanked the state’s Democratic governor for a smooth implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The state has signed up nearly 30,000 people for Medicaid under a federally funded expansion of that program and 1,000 Kentuckians a day are finding private plans under a statewide exchange.
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Rand Paul: “If Dueling Were Legal…”
Frustrated by accusations that plagiarism in his speeches and book was “intentional,” Paul went on ABC this weekend to vent. He and his staff may have been “sloppy,” he said, but they were not “dishonest.” Could he legally duel them in Kentucky, Paul joked, his accusers would soon receive challenges, “if they keep it up.”
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Echoes of Rocky IV in Contest for New York City Mayor
“These comments about attaching me to the national Republican party, it reminds me of that boxing match between Rocky and Drago. Quite honestly we know what happened in that match-the underdog won. New York loves an underdog,” said underdog Joe Lhota earlier this week, during the race’s final debate. His opponent, Bill de Blasio, leads […]
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Fix the Debt Rides Again
The campaign, funded by billionaire Pete Peterson, released an ad and held an event at the National Press Club last week, where its supporters urged bipartisan cooperation to reduce the debt. Both came before the shutdown ended. “Outdated notions of cloakroom comity” run deep, notes Alec MacGillis.
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Pat Robertson: “Wave the White Flag”
The evangelical icon warned earlier this week that Republicans “cannot shut the government down and then bring about a default” because “it would be devastating to every human being and the Republicans just can’t be tarred with that.”
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Wendy Davis’s Advertising Campaign Begins
Davis prefaces her support for public education and veterans’ benefits with a chronicle of her rise from poverty to her graduation from Harvard Law School, all amid shots of the Texas countryside. The four-minute advertisement is the first from Davis, a Democrat, who announced she would run for governor of Texas last week, a position […]
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Is a Lack of Hope Killing Poor White Women?
“For every member of every group in every race that doesn’t graduate from high school, the past 18 years have been devastating,” Monica Potts said on Melissa Harris-Perry’s show this weekend. “The jobs available to them don’t pay very well … they don’t provide a ladder to the middle class. Something about that, something about […]
