tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16489161667243623572012-02-16T21:40:38.175-05:00Adam F. Huttonnoreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648916166724362357.post-37005316786538434342011-05-22T15:42:00.000-04:002011-05-22T15:42:31.471-04:00

Moderates used to be a voice of reason on the right There's been some ideological consolidation within both parties that has led the 112th Congress into some particularly sticky quagmires in its first five months in session. But if recent examples of legislative gridlock make you scratch your head and wonder... Is Congress broken? Is it being held hostage by political extremes and therefore

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I jumped the gun by filing my last post on Saturday. I hadn't the slightest idea that if I had procrastinated a little bit  more I would have been able to capitalize on the President's interview with Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes, just a couple of hours before the deadline. Those of you who saw the complete interview will know that Obama said many things that were contrary to my original argument,

Adam F. Huttonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648916166724362357.post-51450667351670403162011-05-07T15:37:00.000-04:002011-05-07T15:37:51.732-04:00

Behold! The miracles of Photoshop Those of you reading this have heard me say this already -- It is literally incredible that Pakistani intelligence officials were unaware that Osama Bin Laden built a massive bunker in their backyard and lived there for years. Naturally, they deny any knowledge. They didn't even suspect it. Quelle surprise! It's a tough sell. Especially if you're willing to

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Washington D.C. Mayor, six councilmembers, go to jail after protest to defend abortion rights D.C. Mayor Vince Gray blocks traffic I don't think Congress was bargaining for this. The White House probably didn't see it coming either. But their 11th Hour budget agreement to avert a government shutdown had a distinctly partisan stink to it for local government officials in Washington D.C. The

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Deficit Reduction and the Next Budget Battle Eric & Paul give Bill & Ted a run for their money I am loath to tread in Paul Krugman's footsteps. Especially given that I just watched Peter Beinart lead a Q&A with him on Wednesday. But I choose to write about Congress, and this week the most interesting thing coming out of the legislature is going to continue to be House Budget Chairman Paul

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But her latest contradiction shows how badly she wants to run Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's war chest had a great first quarter. Between the $1.7 million raised for her re-election and another half-a-million from a political action committee, the leader of the Tea Party Caucus finished ahead of every presumptive Republican presidential contender in fundraising for the first three

Adam F. Huttonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648916166724362357.post-4623441526368007592011-03-20T14:56:00.001-04:002011-03-20T14:59:37.906-04:00

Tea Party darling Sharron Angle I'm tempted to ponder the merits of enforcing a no-fly-zone over Lybia, whether President Obama was right to commit U.S. troops to battle without asking Congress for permission, and whether "Odyssey Dawn" is a cool name for a military action -- but that's foreign policy talk, which is just a little outside my bailiwick. Plus, those are difficult subjects to

Adam F. Huttonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648916166724362357.post-85506370610124586142011-03-13T05:05:00.014-04:002011-04-19T14:29:42.006-04:00

Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) I hate to put myself in the position of defending Congressman Peter King. So I'm not going to. But he needs a defense attorney, or the wits of one, to explicate why he's holding hearings on the radicalization of Muslim-Americans in the United States. As soon as King's critics caught wind of his plans they charged him with McCarthyism and accused him of leading a witch

Adam F. Huttonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648916166724362357.post-54245162562080373292011-02-26T20:51:00.001-05:002011-04-19T14:32:10.626-04:00

Congressman David Wu (D-Oregon) Oddball Oregon Congressman David Wu, despite having successfully sidestepped several political pratfalls during his first six terms in the House, is apparently not very convincing in his apologies. Editorial boards at community newspapers across the state's First Congressional District called for Wu's resignation this week after the Congressman confessed to

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Last year's Conservative Political Action Conference confused and frightened me a little. A radical conservative organization that supports equal rights for gays, and a far-right group that has advocated pulling the United States out of the United Nations co-sponsored the conference. The right-wing establishment was openly accepting support from the freaks and geeks way past the fringes of its

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I wanted to ignore these jerks. I went to Central Park on Sunday to cover a real story. But, when I spotted these hate mongers from Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church, I knew I'd be missing out if I didn't at least take a few photos.And sure enough, by the time I got home, reviewed my notes and edited some video I took for the worthwhile journalistic venture I was pursuing, The New York Times

Adam F. Huttonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648916166724362357.post-57622919546393760842009-04-10T13:53:00.029-04:002009-04-10T21:00:01.725-04:00

Today a federal judge ordered a psychiatric evaluation for a 31-year-old Turkish born Canadian citizen who allegedly stole a small plane from the flight school he attended in Thunder Bay, Ontario on Monday, then violated American airspace and gave chase to military fighter jets before landing on a dirt road in Missouri and running on foot.Maybe he's crazy. To demonstrate how the story has

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