More Administration Payback to Unions: Obama To Use Contracts To Boost Unions (Updated)
In what amounts to nothing more than a gift to organized labor that would drive up costs for the government in the face of a $1.3 trillion budget deficit, the Obama administration is planning to use the government’s enormous buying power to prod force private companies to “improve wages and benefits for millions of workers” [...]
Good news and bad news from Dartmouth
There’s good news and bad news from Dartmouth today. First, the good news. Our friend Joe Asch has announced that he is gathering signatures in order to run for an Alumni Trustee seat on the Board. Joe follows Dartmouth like I follow Everton, except that he has the benefit of proximity (he [...]
Moderate Muslim Leaders Take a Stand
With the New Year, enhanced fears of, and challenges to, the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban, al-Qaeda, other local jihadists, and their allies among violent Muslim fundamentalists, have become visible across the Indian subcontinent. Intra-Muslim tension inside India, between moderate Barelvi-Sunni Muslims and the radical Deobandi sect, emerged on the weekend of January 3, at a [...]
"The Urgency of Getting This Right"
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This afternoon the President met with relevant agency heads to discuss the ongoing reviews of the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas Day and move forward on rectifying the problems that were exhibited that day. Afterwards he spoke to the press and the American people about what he [...]
Chickens Come Home, Roost
The Obama administration has gone out of its way to poison relationships with traditional allies with Great Britain, and it seems that the favor is now being returned, as the Prime Minister’s office has disclosed publicly that British intelligence, MI5, warned the US about Umar Abdulmutallab. The Telegraph reports:
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was named in [...]
NATO chief: allies will prevail in Afghanistan - WTOP Radio
BRUSSELS (AP) - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Friday the allies will prevail in their bid to stabilize Afghanistan but only if they answer President Barack Obama’s call for more allied troops on the ground. The year 2010 will …
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