car·riage re·turnn. the lever or mechanism on a typewriter that would cause the cylinder on which the paper was held (the carriage) to return to the left margin of the page | 21 November 2008 08:00 The Contenders - Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE,1997-present):President,McCarthy and Company (1991-1996);President and CEO of United Service Organizations (1987-1990);Deputy Director/Chief Operating Officer,Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations (1990);Deputy Administrator of Veterans Affairs (1981-1982);Sergeant,2nd Battalion (Mechanized),47th Infantry Regiment,9th Infantry Division,IV Corps,Vietnam,United Read on… 20 November 2008 11:15 Via Reason‘s Dave Weigel: On Tuesday,Gov. Janet Napolitano signed a measure,House Bill 2677,barring Arizona’s compliance with the Real ID program. In so doing,she called it an unfunded federal mandate that would stick states such as Arizona with a multibillion-dollar bill for the cost to develop and implement the Read on… 20 November 2008 07:30 There’s been a good deal of news breaking in the last 24 or so hours,so I’ll try to catch up on that before posting Part IV in the “Filling the Cabinet”series (which will hopefully be ready for Friday morning publication). First,the news that broke late last night: Gov. Napolitano for Read on… 18 November 2008 17:55 President-elect Obama has asked Eric Holder,former Deputy Attorney General (1997-2001),to head up the Justice Department in his upcoming administration. From 20 January to 02 February 2001 Mr. Holder served as Acting Attorney General. The formal vetting process is pending. Mr. Holder has been President-elect Obama’s senior legal adviser since late 2007 and was Read on… 17 November 2008 16:30 Robert Rubin,the former Treasury Secretary under President Clinton,has been mentioned as potentially reprising his role in the Obama administration. I profiled Mr. Rubin (along with others) last week,noting at the time: Just days before Rubin resigned as Treasury Secretary and joined Citigroup as a top advisor,Congress passed (and President Clinton Read on… | Objective"So much for Objective Journalism. Don’t bother to look for it here -- not under any byline of mine;or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores,race results,and stock market tabulations,there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms." --Hunter S. Thompson |