Mexico’s President Calderon: US Waging ‘Anti-Mexico Campaign’

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  March 14th at 07:19 AM  | 

There’s trouble south of the Rio Grande. In 2006, Mexico elected a bright, conservative reformer as President. Felipe Calderon has attempted to open Mexico’s flagging energy sector to private investment, fight government corruption, and crack down on the illegal drug trade. He’s making some progress (albeit less than the U.S. would like) and it’s coming at a significant cost. Throughout these efforts, President Calderon had | Read More »

Democrat Senate Hopeful Dings The One

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  January 22nd at 02:39 PM  | 

Apparently Representative Carolyn Maloney appeared on MSNBC this morning to discuss Caroline Kennedy’s withdrawal from consideration for Hillary Clinton’s vacant Senate seat. She made a surprising argument: Representative Carolyn Maloney – a Senate hopeful – appeared on MSNBC this morning and tried extrapolating a political lesson from the airplane crash in the Hudson. “We did have one good news with the tragedy with the U.S. | Read More »

Hillary Starts the Musical Chairs in New York

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  November 21st at 06:47 PM  | 

The expected move of Hillary Clinton to Foggy Bottom will set off an intriguing parlor game among New York State Democrats. Whom will Governor Paterson appoint to succeed Clinton? And how will it affect the gubernatorial and senate races in New York in 2010? New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has long been seen as a likely primary opponent to Paterson in 2010, and given | Read More »