this is an adventure

President Barack Obama is taking a beating from liberal critics who think his attempt to court Republican support is a political failure and a policy disaster. Yet this assault on Mr. Obama’s bipartisan instinct is misguided and, ironically, threatens to undermine liberal goals.

At the closing session of the president’s fiscal responsibility summit on Monday, high-ranking members of Congress were asked to put on their reportorial hats, quizzing Barack Obama on various aspects of his economic priorities.

On January 7, just two weeks before the inauguration of President Obama, Attorney General Michael Mukasey ruled that immigrants have no right to be represented by a lawyer, and no right to appeal an adverse ruling based on a lawyer’s mistakes. “Neither the Constitution nor any statutory or regulatory provision,” the Attorney General wrote, “entitles […]

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A rocket carrying a NASA global warming satellite splashed into the ocean near Antarctica early Tuesday after a failed launch. The Taurus XL rocket carrying the Orbiting Carbon Observatory blasted off just before 2 a.m. from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base.