Colum Lynch at The Washington Post reports: Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who lost out in a bruising bid for the job of secretary of state, may have the last laugh. Rice has emerged as far and away the front-runner to succeed Thomas E. Donilon as President Obama’s national security… Continue Reading »
Amy M.E. Fischer at The Longview Daily News reports: The Christian invocation held at the start of Longview City Council meetings since the 1950s is livin’ on a prayer. In response to a citizen complaint, Mayor Don Jensen told the Kelso-Longview Ministerial Association last month it was “not acceptable” to invoke the name of Jesus… Continue Reading »
Eriq Gardner at The Hollywood Reporter reports: Current TV’s $500 million sale to Al Jazeera has prompted a lawsuit that claims co-founder Al Gore originally was opposed to the deal but had a “change of heart” on selling his cable network to oil-rich Qataris. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in San Francisco Superior Court by… Continue Reading »
Stephen Dinan at The Washington Times reports: After years in the shadows, the administration’s secret drone program burst into very public view Wednesday with lawmakers grilling the attorney general over legal justification for targeted killings and Sen. Rand Paul launching an old-style one-man filibuster to demand answers from President Obama. The Kentucky Republican held the… Continue Reading »
Stephen Dinan at The Washington Times reports: An unusually chilly March day and the snowstorm it spawned have shut down much of official Washington on Wednesday — including a hearing House Republicans had called to examine global warming. “Postponed due to weather,” read the notice from the House Science, Space and Technology Committee sent in… Continue Reading »
