At a Center for American Progress (CAP) event, panelists discussed what the Obama administration hopes to achieve, the policy issues facing the administration, the Obama administration’s vision for e-government and financial and economic transparency.
Read the articleMichelle Rhee, the highly praised/beleaguered Chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public school system, is facing another hurdle.
Read the articleMilitary campaigns in Afghanistan have a very poor record, historically.
Read the articleIt might pay to check the roster of financial failures and match them up with their alma maters.
The name that keeps coming up over and over is—Harvard.
Read the articleAre green jobs good for the economy? Four economics and law professors argue otherwise in a paper entitled “7 Myths About Green Jobs.”
Read the articleThe United States faces what www.recovery.gov calls “a crisis unlike any since the Great Depression.” To combat this crisis, the government has come up with The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Read the articleWe have entered a strange new era. Failing businesses – whether financial or industrial – are bailed out by taxpayers, and individuals who took loans they could not afford are subsidized by those who lived within their means.
Read the articleAfter the election, Bill Ayers, the left-wing extremist and leader of the Weather Underground, largely faded from the air waves. But he was not forgotten.
Read the articleIt’s been quite a turnaround for Bill Ayers. The Communist terrorist who planned bombings of police stations, in order to inflict maximum injury and death on police officers, is now depending on the police at the University of Illinois, where he is a “distinguished” professor, to protect him from the tough questions of students’ parents.
Read the articleCongressman Tom Price (R-GA), who represents the “happiest district in the nation” according to a recent study, expressed his regrets that his district “is not happy about what’s going on here in Washington right now.”
Read the articleIn Joseph B. White’s article “How Detroit’s Automakers Went from Kings of the Road to Roadkill,” White explains five factors that contributed to the fall of Detroit’s big three, General Motors (GM), Chrysler and Ford.
Read the articleBy some estimates, President Obama may have the opportunity to nominate one-third of federal appellate judges in his first term alone.
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