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...please the Republican Party's conservative base - the voters he apparently feels he needs to win Florida's closed primary - or appeal to the more centrist, nonwhite and nonmale electorate that the governor has made a career of reaching out to and that the GOP will need in the general election if it plans to climb out of the electoral crater it plummeted into in 2008. (Is Charlie Crist too moderate for Florida Republicans...
...Connecticut's Newgate prison in 1774, and uprisings continue to this day. One report estimates that U.S. correctional institutions saw more than 1,300 riots in the 20th century. Prison insurgencies can be tied to a wide range of causes, including racial tension, gang rivalries, individual feuds and general grievances against guards and prison administrators. (See pictures of Gitmo detainees' portraits...
Crist is likely to go the former - and safer - route by choosing an experienced, recognized Florida Republican. Some of the possibilities include former governor Bob Martinez, 74, and former state attorney general and secretary of state Jim Smith, 68, once a conservative Democrat who jumped to the GOP in the late 1980s and helped it become Florida's dominant party by the turn of the century...
Brown is probably unwelcome at Chiquita, but the door to the Justice Department under now Attorney General Eric Holder swung wide open. Since April, Brown has been working for Holder as head of the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR). Long considered a DOJ backwater, OPR assumed a higher profile in the final years of the Bush Administration amid widespread allegations of attorney misconduct, from the use of political litmus tests in hiring to improper firing of U.S. Attorneys. (Read "Inside Bush and Cheney's Final Days...
...equally hard to pin down. Through the weekend, speculation has been rife that Hakimullah Mehsud and Wali-ur-Rehman, two Taliban leaders tipped for the top slot, turned their guns on each other as the power struggle within turned bloody. Malik insisted that one of the men was dead. General James Jones, President Barack Obama's National Security Adviser, said that signs of internal dissension were encouraging. But on Sunday, Wali-ur-Rehman called a Reuters reporter familiar with his voice to assert that he was still among the living and to deny any rift, claiming that Baitullah was also...