It's pretty much what everyone is saying, notably Emily Yoffe at Slate (where one ordinarily expects support for the Prez). When I enco...
Noted. Obama's statement is... Meaningful and not political. Meaningful and political. Not meaningful but political. Neither meaningful ...
Noooo! This is so bad, I'm embarrassed for him. I want to say he meant to honor Rosa Parks, and he was thinking of the people who would...
"It’s not the disappointment; it’s the hope we can’t bear." Garland-wrenching? I don't know. It's an op-ed in the NYT by o...
"He encourages it and w/ o knowing what it says, leaves room for it.… On Sunday I woke up, waiting for Barack to wake, writing a bit mo...
The Drudge headline says "Unrelenting," and the link goes to "Unrelenting Obama jabs at Romney's job record." But l...
"... prez to appear on Fallon, Kimmel to roast him at White House dinner." It's one big comic performance.
Scanning the news via iPhone while still lying in bed this morning — that's my habit, absurdly — I noticed someone was asserting that Ro...
Says Brett Smiley at New York Magazine. I agree. In the video — which appears in long form at the link — Obama is a Harvard Law student intr...
Here 's the article. Don't miss the second photograph, of the adorable little boy with flag painted on his face — held in the arms o...
From the transcript , all these lines go by without applause: But even as we do all that’s necessary to ensure Israel’s security, even as we...
Writes Janny Scott at the end of a long NYT Magazine article about Stanley Ann Dunham: “Resilient, able to bounce back from setbacks, persis...
[ Click to play video .] Should this joyous dance annoy anyone? Yes, Democrats who just suffered some terrible electoral defeats. Yes, Ameri...
"The pattern is perverse. The man whose presidency is rooted in his ability to inspire withholds that inspiration when it is most neede...
