President Obama announces re-election bid
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 4th, 2011 4:35 am by HL
President Obama announces re-election bid
President Obama announced his plans to seek re-election in 2012 via an email and web video sent to supporters this morning, a move designed to allow him to begin raising money for 2012 nearly 20 months before the election.
Obama aide Melody Barnes linking education and economic policy
The White House has no shortage of people working on economic policy — former executives, high-profile academic economists, masters of the budget.
Mitt Romney’s tactical errors
In 2008, Mitt Romney desperately tried to run from his record as a pro-choice governor. The story of his change of heart didn’t exactly hold together, social conservatives never trusted him and he acquired the “flip-flop” label. He lost Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina and was done for.
British spy files show Nazis sought to use saboteurs, spies and poisoned sausages to win war
LONDON — The four men wading ashore on a Florida beach wearing nothing but bathing trunks and German army hats looked like an unlikely invading force.
An excerpt from Joel Achenbach’s “A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea”
On April 20, 2010, BP’s mile-deep Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico blew out, exploding in an inferno that killed 11 men, sank the huge drilling rig Deepwater Horizon and led to America’s worst oil spill. In this excerpt from his new book, “A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher” (Simon & Schuster), which will be published Tuesday, Washington Post staff writer Joel Achenbach describes the Obama administration’s attempts to persuade a skeptical public that it was fully in command of the effort to kill the well — even as that effort was going dismayingly awry.