this is an adventure

As the recent Gen. Anthony Zinni case demonstrates, behind the scenes and mostly under the radar, the Obama administration is busy slotting U.S. ambassadors for key assignments across the globe, weighing multiple considerations.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sought to assure the nation Monday that he will address runaway government deficits, despite adding to the red ink now to battle the economic crisis. After a four-hour “fiscal responsibility summit” with both Republican and Democratic lawmakers, Mr. Obama said he was paying attention to fiscal matters large and small. […]

As a quick clarification to Jane Hamsher’s post, no one at the White House ever mentioned the Orszag-Diamond plan to me. I brought it up in this post as an example of the sort of thinking that administration members had done on Social Security in the past, not as something that anyone was floating for […]

WASHINGTON — Ignacio Carlos Flores-Figueroa, an undocumented worker from Mexico, made a curious and undeniably bad decision. After working under an assumed name for six years, he decided to use his real name and exchanged one set of phony identification numbers for another.