Tom Ridge

Lights, Camera, Educate!

Zachary K. Pearce | Posted 04.19.2012

Zachary K. Pearce

When the lights and camera are cued, not only is a news show taking place, but an outstanding education is in the making.

Tom Ridge Endorses Mitt Romney

The Huffington Post | Elise Foley | Posted 03.14.2012

Mitt Romney announced an endorsement Wednesday from former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, who had previously backed then-candidate Jon Huntsman. Rid...

Sam Stein

GOP Field Sobers Up On Super PACs

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.05.2012

TILTON, N.H. -- The rapid rise and far-reaching impact of super PACs -- the well-financed non-party groups that helped carry former Massachusetts Gov....

Sam Stein

Huntsman Backer Sets Incredibly High Bar For Romney

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.05.2012

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Political observers and staff members for presidential campaigns almost unanimously expect former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney t...

Tom Ridge: Congress' Inaction For 9/11 First Responders 'A Bloody Outrage'

AOL Government | By Dan Verton | Posted 10.19.2011

The nation's first Secretary of Homeland Security said Congress has "failed" America's first responders by not acting on legislation that would dedica...

Why Horrifying Abortion Clinic Was Not Inspected For 17 Years

Posted 05.25.2011

ProPublica's Marian Wang reports:While this week's indictment involving a grisly abortion mill in Philadelphia has shocked many [1], the grand jury's ...

The West's Monologue With Tehran

Ali Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011

Ali Safavi

To avoid seeing the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism equipped with the world's deadliest weapon, Washington and her allies need to rectify past policy mistakes and stand with the Iranian people for democratic change.

Marcus Baram

Fear Pays: Chertoff, Ex-Security Officials Slammed For Cashing In On Government Experience

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

After last month's plot to send bombs from Yemen to the United States aboard a cargo plane, former U.S. Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's whi...

The Secret Superdelegate War Revealed

Erik Ose | Posted 05.25.2011

Erik Ose

It was one year ago today that Hillary Clinton announced plans to suspend her campaign for the Democratic nomination, and urged her supporters to unite behind Barack Obama.

Vital Speeches, Back in the Day

David Murray | Posted 05.25.2011

David Murray

A sampling of American speeches from 75 years ago reveals rhetoric both strange and strangely familiar.

Ridge: Terror Suspect Doesn't Deserve Constitution's 'Full Range Of Protections'

CNN | Posted 05.25.2011

The man who allegedly lit an explosive on board a U.S.-bound international flight deserves none of the constitutional protections afforded American ci...

Playboy: Con Man Convinced Bush Administration He Could Predict Terror Attack

Playboy | Aram Roston | Posted 05.25.2011

The weeks before Christmas brought no hint of terror. But by the afternoon of December 21, 2003, police stood guard in heavy assault gear on the stree...

My Morning Ritual

Steven Weber | Posted 11.17.2011

Steven Weber

The last several months have highlighted, more than any time I can remember, the confluence of commerce and politics, loss of faith in government, and widespread acceptance of cartoon scenarios.

Keep Your Shoes On: A Modest Proposal for Rational Airport Security

Jay Michaelson | Posted 11.17.2011

Jay Michaelson

The rest of the world is laughing at us. Literally, in some cases -- when I reflexively took my shoes off at a security line in Berlin, the guard chuckled. Stupid American.

Rachel Maddow: Her Intelligence is Right

Joe Cirincione | Posted 05.25.2011

Joe Cirincione

Maddow will not let former officials dodge responsibility for launching an unnecessary war in Iraq. Why do other journalists?

Tom Ridge: I Avoid Red And Orange Ties

New York Post | Posted 05.25.2011

"All I wanted was to make sure I didn't wear an orange or red one," adding, "I wish I could say I picked it out, but somebody gave it to me."...

Politics and Pressure

Daniel Menaker | Posted 05.25.2011

Daniel Menaker

At least Ridge on the "Rachel Maddow Show" and "Hardball" had the decency to squirm, and thus give himself away. The way that he said that he didn't mean what he said showed me that he did.

Ridge: Take That Untrustworthy Jacket Off My Trustworthy Book!

Talking Points Memo | Ben Frumin | Posted 05.25.2011

Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge's backpedaling book tour continues! As we've reported, Ridge's new book, The Test of Our Times: America ...

Maddow Interviews Tom Ridge About Iraq Intelligence, Hurricane Katrina, Politicized Threat Levels (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011

***UPDATE*** TPM makes the good point that Maddow got Ridge to contradict what was written on the jacket of his book. After repeatedly denying that p...

Ridge: Waterboarding Was "Wrong"; America Shouldn't Have Done It

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 05.25.2011

Looks like Tom Ridge has joined the ranks of terrorist-sympathizers. In a throwaway comment in this interview with ABC News earlier today, the former...

Ridge Backpedals, Says There Was No Pressure To Raise Terror Alerts

AP/Huffington Post | Mimi Hall | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Monday people "are hyperventilating" about his assertion that politics played a r...

Johnny, Tommy, Rummy, and Ash

Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 05.25.2011

Maggie Van Ostrand

It seems every politician with a book and a real or imagined hot topic is hawking his or her too-little-too-late book on cable and network news shows.

Avoiding Defeat in Afghanistan

Peter Henne | Posted 05.25.2011

Peter Henne

In the absence of an apparently imminent threat, will the American public continue to support sending forces to Afghanistan, or will they punish Obama for taking ownership of this conflict?

Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Arianna Huffington

Least surprising news item of the week: former Department of Homeland Security director Tom Ridge's admission that he was pressured to raise the terror alert at the end of the 2004 campaign to help Bush win re-election. In his new book, Ridge says he felt the politically motivated manipulation was worth resigning over. But, of course, he didn't, saying nothing and staying on until after Bush won. Ridge thus joins the long line of key Bush administration officials who only come clean when it's time to cash in on their "honesty." Elsewhere, Bernie Madoff's mistress warmed the hearts of Freudians everywhere with her revelation that the famous felon "had a very small penis. Not only was it on the short side, it was small in circumference." Is that why he needed to sport the biggest Ponzi in history?

Andy Card: A Tale Of Two Quotes

Jackson Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Jackson Williams

George Bush minions are doing quick damage control in the wake of Tom Ridge's revelation that he smelled a rat in White House efforts to raise the terror threat level on the weekend before Bush's '04 reelection.