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My Reggie Love Date: Race Didn't Matter, and FishbowlDC Doesn't Get It
By Helena Andrews - Politics DailyIn the June issue of Marie Claire magazine (on newsstands now) I write about a set-up courtesy of one Maureen Dowd -- yes, that Maureen Dowd. "I've got a guy for you. He's so hot, it's perfect." That guy just happened to be President Barack Obama's "body guy," or personal aide, Reggie Love (formerly of People Magazine's Hottest 25 Bachelors). It was the spring of '08 when MoDo, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist, "decided to take it upon herself to find me a man," I recount in Marie Claire. I was hesitant, of course. I mean how could the woman I'd helped with a computer ...
Majority of Arizonans Favor New Immigration Law
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyFifty-two percent of Arizonans support the state's new immigration law with 39 percent opposed to it and 9 percent undecided, according to a Rocky Mountain Poll conducted April 15-25. That's roughly the same outcome that a New York Times/CBS News poll,conducted April 28 - May 2, found nationally: 51 percent said the law, aimed at reducing the number of illegal immigrants in the state, was "about right," while 36 percent percent said it went too far, 9 percent said it did not go far enough, and 4 percent were undecided. A Gallup poll conducted April 27-28 also had 51 percent of those who had ...
Airport Security: Is Israel the Answer?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyWell, Alex, there's one obvious solution to the rampant dysfunction you so colorfully describe in that hilarious recap of your recent journey from India back to the United States. And I can sum it up in one word: Israel.Over the past week or so, much ink has been spilled over the pros and cons of airport security techniques as diverse as body scanners (child porn?), passenger profiling (racist or just plain smart?) and the prohibition on bathroom breaks during the last hour of the flight (cruel and unusual punishment?). Surprisingly, what people aren't talking so much about are the methods ...
Feeling Safer at the Airport Yet?
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyIn the past couple of weeks, a range of new airport security measures have been called for or implemented. Some, like a restriction on holding any items in your lap during the last hour of your flight, barely lasted the week. Others, like the full-body scanners that create a complete image of the person being scanned, seem destined to stick around. But it's the newest one that may turn out to be the most controversial: As of Monday, all passengers with a passport from or traveling through one of 14 countries (Afghanistan, Algeria, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi ...
Newt Gingrich on Terrorist Threat: 'It's Time to Profile'
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 31) -- Nearly one week after the attempted bombing of an American airliner, Newt Gingrich writes that the Obama administration is more concerned with "protecting the rights of terrorists" than protecting the lives of Americans and calls for "profiling for terrorists." ...
Colin Powell: Skip Gates Could Have Avoided Arrest
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyGen. Colin Powell says that Harvard Professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates could have avoided arrest and the ensuing controversy by just talking calmly to Cambridge, Mass., Police Sgt. James Crowley and coming outside his house. "I'm saying Skip, perhaps in this instance, might have waited a while, come outside, talked to the officer and that might have been the end of it," Powell says in an interview with Larry King, airing Tuesday night on CNN. Embedded video from <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video">CNN Video</a> Powell added that the whole ...
Gates-Crowley Drama: Forget Assumptions, Focus on Lessons
By Donna Britt - Politics Daily"Who do you think you are?" Of all the angry words tossed about in the brouhaha around black Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates' arrest for disorderly conduct on his front porch by a white Cambridge policeman, that question -- the one millions of us ask when confronted by someone who has clearly overstepped his bounds -- seems most apt. Even if neither Gates nor Sgt. James Crowley -- the policeman who'd rushed to Gates' home in response to a report of two men forcing the door -- never asked the question aloud, both men seemed to have been motivated by it. The policeman, regarding the ...
Obama: Gates Case Provides 'Teachable Moment'
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyPresident Obama was full of surprises Friday. First, he placed a conciliatory early afternoon phone call to James P. Crowley, the Cambridge, Mass., police sergeant whose intelligence and judgment Obama questioned during a prime-time press conference for arresting a prominent African-American Harvard professor in his own home. Then Obama reacted favorably to the sergeant's suggestion that he and the president have a beer together at the White House – along with the professor, Henry Louis "Skip" Gates. And then, the president strode to the podium in the White House briefing room to tell ...
PD's Lynn Sweet Asks the President
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAs our loyal readers know, Lynn Sweet is not just the Washington bureau chief for the Chicago Sun-Times; she also pens the Daily FLOTUS column at Politics Daily. As the president's press conference came to an end Wednesday night, Lynn asked the president what the recent arrest of Henry Louis Gates said about the state of race relations in the country. The President said that if the facts are as he understands them - that Gates was arrested for disorderly conduct after showing his ID - then the Cambridge police acted "stupidly." He went on to say that while we've made progress in the country, ...
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