Month: January 2011

Senator David Norris, independent politician, Joycean Scholar, Wildean wit, Shavian sage and possible next President of Ireland.Poll places Norris in lead for Áras – The Irish TimesAn opinion poll suggests Senator...

When politicians start talking about criminalizing speech I get a bit nervous, but I am willing to listen to the specifics on this: Rep. Robert Brady (D-Pa.) reportedly plans to introduce legislation that would make it a federal...

Arnold Fields, retired Marine General, and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) for the past 3 years has resigned. I don’t know why he chose to do so now, but maybe the message he gave...

It’s a sad day in the White House. But this is a very strange story. A lobbyist for the energy industry was found dead in her sport utility vehicle early Monday. The lobbyist, Ashley Turton, 37, a regulatory affairs...

Comes from Chris Carney: Former Representative Chris Carney of Pennsylvania, whose district, like Ms. Giffords’s, was on list of 20 Congressional districts that Ms. Palin’s political operation marked with cross hairs, was quoted...