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Defense Sec. Gates' open-ended stay

Defense Secretary Robert Gates made it pretty clear today, he really wasn't hoping to stay around Washington beyond the Bush Administration. He really had hoped he would be able to return to his home in the Pacific Northwest on Jan 20. Famously, he had ...

From FRANK JAMES, The Swamp,  2 Dec 2008

Capitol Hill visitors center opens, at last

People gather around the plaster model of the Statue of Freedom, which was used to cast the bronze Statue of Freedom which tops the Capitol Dome, following the opening ceremony for the United States Capitol Visitor Center on Capitol Hill on Dec. 2, 2008 ...

From FRANK JAMES, The Swamp,  2 Dec 2008

Obama picks Richardson for Commerce

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson waves at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Aug. 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File) New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will be named President-elect Barack Obama's Commerce Secretary at a Chicago press ...

From FRANK JAMES, The Swamp,  2 Dec 2008

Mumbai warning by U.S. before attacks

Reports that Indian officials had intelligence from their own electronic surveillance as well as from the U.S. that warned of terror attacks on major hotels and other targets in Mumbai raises the question of what should be done with that kind of ...

From FRANK JAMES, The Swamp,  2 Dec 2008

Condi Rice entertains the Queen

This is something you don't see everyday, a U.S. secretary of state playing piano for Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. It appears Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice decided to end her final trip to Britain as the U.S.'s top envoy with a ...

From FRANK JAMES, The Swamp,  2 Dec 2008

Automakers' plans due today

Today's the deadline for the Big Three automakers to send their restructuring plans to Congress as they attempt to get a $25 billion taxpayer bailout they say they need to avoid insolvency. Congress requested the plans after the chief executive ...

From FRANK JAMES, The Swamp,  2 Dec 2008

Terrorist WMD attack chances rise

File this in the one-more-thing-to-worry-about category. According to the Washington Post, a congressionally created commission will issue a report tomorrow containing the hair-raising alarm that there's a better than even chance that terrorists will ...

From FRANK JAMES, The Swamp,  2 Dec 2008

Obama rebukes Bush years with Clinton

What message should we take away from President-elect Barack Obama's choices for his national-security team? One is that his presidency will be far different than the past eight years. By his choices, he's rebuking the presidential management style of ...

From FRANK JAMES, The Swamp,  1 Dec 2008

Economy in recession for a year

For anyone who suspected for the past year or so that the economy was in a recession, who thought the signs were evident even before Wall Street ran off the rails in the spring and summer, you were right. The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the ...

From FRANK JAMES, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  1 Dec 2008

Bush's marks World AIDS Day

President George W. Bush with First Lady Laura Bush on World AIDS Day at the White House, Monday, December 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) The conventional wisdom is that President Bush doesn't have a lot of unequivocal successes to point to as part of ...

From FRANK JAMES, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  1 Dec 2008

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