GOP Hawks Wary of Rand Paul
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 24th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
GOP Hawks Wary of Rand Paul
Jeremy Peters, New York Times
Rand Paul had just finished his opening remarks at a private gathering of Republican power brokers at the Four Seasons in Georgetown last fall when Phil Gramm, the former senator from Texas, shot up his hand with the first question.
Hillary Speaks! (Not Really)
Mark Leibovich, New York Times Magazine
Next month, Hillary Clinton’s latest memoir, “Hard Choices,” a chronicle of her time at the State Department, will enter the expanding political subgenre of Inoffensively Clichéd and Calculated Titles Composed of Inoffensive Clichés and Calculations. “Hard Choices,” which reportedly earned Clinton a high-seven-figure advance, will offer the standard promotional- book-tour-cum-possible-campaign prelude. It is “much awaited” in the same way that Vice President Selina Meyer’s “Some New Beginnings” and Senator Al Franken’s…
Why I Blew the Whistle on the VA
Sam Foote, New York Times
MY decision to become a whistle-blower after 24 years as a physician in a Veterans Affairs hospital was, at first, an easy one. I knew about patients who were dying while waiting for appointments on the V.A.’s secret schedules, and I couldn’t stay silent.
Mark Cuban and the “Price” of Progress
Ian Crouch, The New Yorker
In April, as the scandal involving the Clippers owner Donald Sterling made headlines, many of Sterling’s fellow-owners issued stern condemnations. Mark Cuban, the tech millionaire and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, said that, while Sterling’s comments were “wrong” and “abhorrent,” he wasn’t convinced that Sterling should be forced out of the league. “I think you’ve got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do,” he said. “It’s a very, very…
Netanyahu Says Obama Got Syria Right
Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has some uncharacteristically positive words for one of U.S. President Barack Obama’s most controversial foreign policy initiatives: the deal struck last year to remove chemical weapons from Syria.
