Politico has launched its iPad application, joining a growing list of news publications to refashion their content for Apple’s tablet device.
The Washington D.C.-based political news publication quietly launched the app last Friday, and was advertising the program Monday afternoon on its Website. The app sports three pages of headlines from Politico, but—other than font-size choosing and social-media sharing—offers few additional features for users.
In the 21st century, the security of nations will depend increasingly on the security of natural resources, or “natural security.” Countries around the world rely on the availability of potable water, arable land, fish stocks, biodiversity, energy, minerals and other renewable and nonrenewable resources to meet the rising needs and expectations of a growing world population. Yet the availability of these resources is by no means assured. This report - authored by Christine Parthemore and Will Rogers - points to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Mexico and Yemen as examples of how natural security challenges are directly linked to internal stability, regional dynamics and U.S. security and foreign policy interests.
It's interesting to me that the American military -- as a group, about as conservative and GOP-oriented a collection of humans as you'll ever find -- is preparing for and thinking about what climate change will mean for America's national security. What do they know that their civilian friends don't?
Rep. John Boehner sat down with Lesley Stahl for a 60 Minutes interview that aired Sunday, but the most talked-about part of the interview wasn't anything the future House speaker said (although the fact that he "rejects the word 'compromise'" got a few headlines), it was what he did - cry. For the second time since election night, the minority leader choked up with the cameras rolling.
I've got to say, if Barack Obama teared up in a televised interview, Republicans would never let us hear the end of it. There's nothing wrong, in my opinion, with showing strongly felt emotion. Remember when National Review/CNBC/Big Government's Larry Kudlow lamented Obama hugging Rahm Emmanuel at a press conference? "It did not send a message of American power and forcefulness." Kudlow fretted -- probably with a purpose.
Everybody's having a laugh today at Boehner's tears. But nobody is really trying to make the case that American prestige is threatened by them. It's a double-standard -- a fairly small one, as they go, but still.
Exciting news from Wall Street! Thanks to low-interest rates and an influx of capital from the Fed's emergency lending program and the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Bloomberg reports that 2010 is on track to be the second most-profitable year in Wall Street history. "Even if this quarter only matches the third, [Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley's] revenue will top that of any year except 2009," reporter Michael Moore writes.
So there were plenty of reasons, not counting fear of WMD, for Congress to have wanted to remove Saddam — and indeed a majority of Democratic senators, including Harry Reid, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton, and sizable numbers of House Democrats voted for the resolutions. The administration erred in hyping one or two writs concerning WMD, and today the result is that we have completely forgotten the congressional authorizations in late 2002 and their rather long litany of Saddam’s transgressions — which had earlier led Bill Clinton to push through a regime-change authorization of his own (the Iraqi Liberation Act of 1998).
For those interested in re-fighting the debate leading to the invasion of Iraq, it must be remembered that the Bush Administration hyped WMD as a reason for going to war because, really, it was *the* necessary and sufficent condition to get the American people's backing for the invasion. Even after 9/11, were Americans ready to start a land war in the Middle East over the no-fly zone? Over violations of UN sanctions? I'll wager not. The Bush Administration was able to go to war because it persuaded the American people *that their safety was endangered* by not acting before Saddam surely would. The Bush Administration was wrong. The war was, and continues to be, an unjustifiable disaster.
I'm no constitutional scholar like Ann Coulter, but given my good enough for a blogpost understanding of this I actually don't think it's insane to rule that the individual mandate is unconstitutional.
He might be. It's obviously pretty easy for us liberals to gripe about legislation that falls short of perfection, but the individual mandate looks uglier and uglier as time goes on. I know, from a policy standpoint, why health reform advocates thought it was needed -- to prevent healthy people from gaming the new system and staying out until they needed it to spend money. But it seems like the act, as passed, was designed to alienate as many voters as it made happy. If it goes down in judicial flames, it will be yet another generation (at least) before Democrats have a bite at this particular apple.
A desktop program that lets users create personal wikis has made its debut as an application for the iPhone and iPad.
VoodooPad for iOS, an offering from developer Flying Meat, made its debut last Friday in Apple's App Store.
