How much anti-Rove hatred is there in Northeast Wisconsin? Rep. Steve Kagen (D-WI) is tapping into it for fundraising. Too bad for him he lacks accuracy:
Congressman Steve Kagen’s campaign claims in a fundraising e-mail that former White House political adviser Karl Rove called him the top target this year.
But Rove says he has no recollection [...]
Drudge reports Sen. Barack Obama has made his decision on Vice President. The announcement could come as soon as Tuesday morning.
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Mark Corallo thinks the U.S. could dominate handball:
The USA could dominate Men’s Handball. How so? After all, we don’t really have any factories from which to draw our talent (Google, Yahoo!, IBM and Microsoft don’t count).
But we do have real athletes — lots of ‘em. We have thousands of big, brawny, unbelievably talented athletes. We [...]
Gordon Chang on the Chinese ensuring they won the women’s team gymnastics gold medal:
Deng in the picture is all smiles. She and her comrades made history by winning gold last Wednesday, edging out the slightly favored Americans in the women’s team gymnastics competition. Officially, the sweet Ms. Deng was born on April 21, 1992. But [...]
Eight gold medals and seven world records make for an amazing Olympic performance for swimmer Michael Phelps:
With the help of his teammates on Sunday, Michael Phelps surpassed Mark Spitz, 36 years after Spitz’s record haul of seven gold medals at the Munich Games. The United States won the 4×100-meter medley relay in 3:29.34, a world [...]
If any of you are in the Germantown, WI area in a few weeks you’ll have to check out the Fifth Congressional District GOP Forum. It will be moderated by none other than Owen Robinson. It’s the first time I know of where a weblogger is moderating a debate/forum for a federal race.
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You’ve noticed a significant reduction in weblogging on TAM. That’s because I’m the new online communications advisor for the Senate Republican Conference (SRC). I’m responsible for reaching out to the online community, making conference websites the best they can be, and thinking of new ways to get the Senate Republicans’ message of smaller, smarter government [...]
Are we entering “The Chinese Century?” James Pethokoukis doesn’t think so.
Desmond Lachman wonders if the current credit crunch requires more extensive policy changes than managing an economic downturn.
Brad Setser notes the Federal Reserve is back in the middle of credit allocation and asks if we should also be worried China’s increasing influence.
A former chief economist [...]
Talk about liberal bias. Sunday, HBO will show a documentary on Helen Thomas. What about that other Washington newspaper icon, Robert Novak? Decades covering politics would deserve a documentary. Unfortunately for Novak, he’s a man of the Right.
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Deal Hudson spoke with Robert Novak before he went to Duke University Hospital for surgery on his brain cancer:
Bob said he hoped that the treatment would improve his quality of life as well as extend it. When I asked him whether he thought he could beat the cancer, he said he didn’t think so. He [...]
Michele Catalano blames white suburban teenagers newfound interest in heroin on over-protective parents driving them on and on while not letting them deal with the inevitable failure:
At the same time these kids were being coddled, cocooned, and raised on false pedestals, they were also being pressured into perfection. The overscheduling that started when they were [...]
The Obama campaign wants to do something to reach out to pro-life Democrats and independents by inviting Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) to speak at the Democratic convention. That would make up for the shunning the Clintons gave his father in 1992. However, why should any voter who cares about the life issue even contemplate Sen. [...]
The Beijing Olympics have already been marred. Not by pollution or political oppression but by an act of violence:
The close-knit world of U.S. volleyball had such high hopes and positive energy coming into the Olympics.
But on Day One, a bizarre tragedy turned everyone’s attention to life and death, not spikes and digs.
“There are some things [...]
Zachary Karabell points out the Chinese consumer is doing what he or she can to maintain the world economy. [via Mark Perry]
Two University of Michigan economics, based on early data, find most of the 2008 economic stimulus checks went into savings.
King Banian wonders why the sluggish economy hasn’t helped Sen. Barack Obama in the polls.
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There’s no heartbreak in this Green Bay Packers fan now that Brett Favre is a New York Jet. The relationship between the quarterback and the team deteriorated too much. Brett no longer trusted general manager Ted Thompson and head coach Mike McCarthy and the Packers weren’t confident Favre had the dedication they wanted to take [...]
