Elizabeth Warren’s Mission
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 22nd, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Elizabeth Warren’s Mission
Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Some politicians know they want to be in public office and scramble to come up with the reason why. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is an accidental, improbable politician — a self-described “outsider” — who knows exactly what she wants to accomplish on the inside.The Massachusetts Democrat insists that she’s not running for president, and there’s little reason to doubt her — although, interestingly, Warren sticks doggedly to the present tense to describe her intentions.I asked Warren about this phrasing the other afternoon over iced tea mixed with lemonade at a restaurant near her…
Cochran’s Porking Helps K Street But Not Miss.
Tim Carney, DC Examiner
Joe Carr, a GOP Senate candidate in Tennessee waging a long-shot bid to unseat Sen. Lamar Alexander, was addressing a group of 80 tea party activists on the night of Eric Cantor’s primary when word of the House majority leader’s loss rippled through the audience. “The place went nuts,” Carr said.
How the CIA Stole “Dr. Zhivago”
Michael Kimmage, The New Republic
First published in Italy in 1958, Doctor Zhivago was not released in the Soviet Union until 1989. The story of Yuri Zhivago, it outlined the history of the Russian Revolution and aftermath not as an epochal event for humanity but as a complicated event registered in the soul of a man who was very much an individual. Soviet logic demanded that it be banned. American cold war logic demanded that the book be embraced, though to celebrate it merely as propaganda was to do Pasternak the writer a terrible disservice.