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'War on Drugs' Gives Way to the Dangerous New Face of Narco-Politics
By James Grady - Politics DailyA shotgun blast of news this year shredded what most Americans believe about what used to be called the "war on drugs" -- that it was being fought to curb what were seen as simply criminal enterprises. Instead, it left us all facing the new dangers of narco-politics, whether it is cartels challenging governments and attacking social institutions, capitalizing on corruption, or involvement in the drug trade by terrorist groups. As a veteran California law enforcement officer told Politics Daily: "What we're seeing in Mexico is cartels as new 'state making' agencies." That's politics, even if, ...
Congress' Old-Media Habit: $1.2 Million a Month on News and Research
By Ernie Smith - AOL News(July 21) -- One group of people not contributing to the erosion of paid newspaper subscriptions: our duly elected representatives and their staffs. The hundreds of line items for old-media purchases are among the many clues to Congress' news habits that AOL News spotted in its close reading of the House's last three Statement of Disbursements. Collecting all the invoices generated by Congress every three months, it was made available in digital form for the first time in December. Following the most recent update in June, the House's expenditures for the last six months of 2009 and the ...
Opinion Roundup: More Intelligence, Less Safety
By not in system - AOL News(July 19) -- Dana Priest and William Arkin's Washington Post expose of the fast-growing intelligence community in their first installment of "Top Secret America" has plenty of people talking. Making Us Less Safe What's most noteworthy about all of this is that the objective endlessly invoked for why we must acquiesce to all of this -- National Security -- is not only unfulfilled by "Top Secret America," but actively subverted by it. ... The article details how ample information regarding alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan and attempted Christmas Day bomber Umar Abdulmutallab was collected ...
Interns in Washington: Finding News Ways to Wow the Hill
By Matt Vasilogambros - Politics DailyIt's the time of year when 20,000 bright-eyed, ambitious college students pour into Washington, D.C. to start their jobs as summer interns. These kids have finally made it to the big show, working in the nation's capitol. Eagerness and egos in hand, they soon find out that the qualities that got them there can just as soon lead to their demise. Interns in Washington have become a spectacle, a means of entertainment to fill up conversations at the water cooler. Classic mistakes and faux pas have become legend for locals. So, interns, watch out when summer comes around. You're being observed ...
Washington Post Reporter's 'Bigots' Tweet Criticized by Right
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyWhen The Washington Post recently hired blogger Dave Weigel to cover the conservative movement and the GOP, one right-leaning site, Newsbusters, was not impressed. "The paper has hired another blogger who has been critical of the Right," it wrote, "and his beat will be, you guessed it, covering conservatives." Now, a Tweet Weigel sent out Saturday has confirmed conservatives' fears. While much of official Washington was preparing for the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, Weigel sent out the following Tweet: "I can empathize with everyone I cover except for the anti-gay marriage ...
Jill Lawrence Named Online Columnist of the Year by Society of Professional Journalists
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyI am so proud to report that Politics Daily's Jill Lawrence has been named online columnist of the year by the Society of Professional Journalists, which announced the winners of the 2009 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism on Monday. Jill, who luckily for us left USA Today to join Politics Daily's staff shortly before our launch a year ago, was honored for her "Sharp Eye on Washington, [with] Minimum Snark." The winning entry included five columns: Liberals, Get Patriotic and Ditch the Volvo; Obama and Congress Shouldn't Let Polls Guide Health Reform; Why Americans Love to ...
Ben Bradlee: A Legend After 'All the President's Men'
By Donna Trussell - Politics Daily"Nothing's riding on this except the, uh, First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press, and maybe the future of the country." That sentence was uttered by actor Jason Robards playing Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee in what is arguably the best performance of his career in "All the President's Men," one of the 100 greatest films of all time, according to the American Film Institute. Oh, the glory days of newspapers! What with Quinn Bradlee, son of Bradlee and columnist Sally Quinn, in the news (as reported by my Politics Daily colleague Annie Groer here and here) and last ...
The Parable of the Trophy Wife
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyThis is a true story. Once upon a time, in the last century, there was a great, nearly stately institution that served the public nobly, at times even heroically. Though not as glamorous as Hollywood or royal as Versailles, the city in which the institution did business possessed elements of each. In a time akin to Camelot, when these near movie stars mingled with presidents, one particularly handsome and charming figure captured hearts and minds with his dash and verve. He was a man's man, of course, and the women he serially married were beautiful and clever. His oldest son and heir to ...
Sarah Palin Hits New Low in Poll
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Feb. 11) -- Just when she starts to hear warm words from some unlikely quarters, a new survey reveals cold, hard statistics about the public's view of Sarah Palin. After days of jokes about her palm reading at the Tea Party convention last Saturday, no less than Washington Post columnist David Broder -- who's been called the dean of the Washington press corps -- praised her "pitch-perfect populism." Broder said in an op-ed today that he's impressed by "a politician who knows who she is and how to sell herself, even with notes on her palm." Also today, Time magazine's Joe Klein -- who ...
David Axelrod Fires Back at Karl Rove on Deficits
By David Sessions - Politics DailyIn an op-ed in Friday's Washington Post, Obama senior adviser David Axelrod slammed Karl Rove for a brief Post item last Sunday in which Rove said the Obama administration will "run up more debt by October than Bush did in eight years." Responding to the back-handed "advice" Rove was giving Democrats for the 2010 election, Axelrod wrote that "given the shape in which the last administration left this country, I'm not sure I would solicit [Rove's] advice." ...
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