politics.theatlantic.com - 4/24/2009
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At the bottom of an item about new responsibilities for war czar Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute of the National Security Council, the very-well sourced Laura Rozen writes of National Security Adviser Jim Jones: Several sources have in recent weeks described Jones as having a problematic tenure at the ...
Can James Jones Survive a Second Round of Attacks and "Longer Knives"?
thewashingtonnote.com 6/12/2009 —
I am here in London where I'm participating in an interesting forum sponsored by the Princeton Project on National Security and the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Transatlantic Program , I've received not just one email -- but three -- ...
A Fairly Conservative Jim Jones as National Security Advisor
openleft.com 12/2/2008 — A few months ago at an event for a group of youngish Democrats in DC, I ran into one of General Jim Jones's staffers at the US Chamber of Commerce. It's odd to find a Democrat at the US Chamber of Commerce, since that is one of the most partisan ...
Obama's Relationship With Emil Jones--It's, Uh, Complicated
blogs.tnr.com 12/11/2008 —
Besides worsening his own legal problems, one of the things Rod Blagojevich accomplished when he (allegedly) shopped around Barack Obama's Senate seat was to highlight the president elect's relationship with Emil Jones, the outgoing president of ...
Spike Lee: DC is ‘Chocolate City’
newsbusters.org 1/17/2009 — Discussing “post-racial” inauguration, CNN doesn’t call Lee on outdated racial term.
By Matt Philbin and Erin Brown The Culture & Media Institute January 16, 2009
We’ve heard ad nauseam from a hopeful media -- Daniel Schorr of NPR, ...
Van Jones' opinion of the GOP
washingtonmonthly.com 9/2/2009 — VAN JONES' OPINION OF THE GOP.... For a seven-month-old quote, this is generating a surprising amount of attention today. A video in which White House green jobs adviser Van Jones calls Congressional Republicans (and himself) "a**holes" is quickly ...
General Jones Says To The Universe: I Exist!
politics.theatlantic.com 5/6/2009 — For the first time, Gen. James Jones, Obama's national security adviser, will brief reporters today. He'll do so on camera, in the White House briefing room, after the Presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan depart. Jones, to my knowledge, has never ...
Who Cleared Van Jones?
weeklystandard.com 9/4/2009 — Bob Beckel said on Fox this morning that Obama White House green jobs czar Van Jones will be canned by Tuesday. Beckel reasoned that Jones's background is simply indefensible for a White house appointment, and wondered if the FBI screwed up because ...
He’s In Love With Jim Jones Whoah
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 12/1/2008 — Clearly, the most noteworthy thing about General Jim Jones, apparently Barack Obama’s choice to be National Security Adviser, is that for someone about to get such an important post very little is known about him. But due to some weird ...
Van Jones a ticking time bomb for Obama
voices.kansascity.com 9/4/2009 — By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
By mid-Friday, it was clear that the days of green jobs czar Van Jones are numbered in the Obama administration.
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Spoken Like a Traffic Cop
whiskeyfire.typepad.com 6/3/2009 — Chuck Norris is outraged ! He's outraged over how if you routinely park too many cars in a cul-de-sac, a neighbor might get annoyed and call the police on you, and then a cop might show up and ask what's going on, and then the county might tell you ...
Boehner requests more 'torture' info —
First Read 4/23/2009
From NBC's Domenico Montanaro Rep. John Boehner 's office says the minority leader pressed President Obama at the meeting at the White House this afternoon of Congressional leaders to release "more on the rest of the story" of the intelligence ...
GOP unimpressed with Obama's first 100 —
First Read 4/23/2009
From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro The stories are already being written about President Obama 's first 100 days -- even though today's only Day 94 -- but Republicans want to make sure they're heard on what's happened thus far.
And, not ...
Tedisco concedes in NY-20 —
First Read 4/24/2009
From NBC's Mark Murray and Domenico MontanaroRepublican Jim Tedisco just conceded to Democrat Scott Murphy in the special congressional in upstate New York that first took place on March 31, giving Democrats their first congressional victory of the ...
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