In an important article for Newsweek, "Independent's Day," Daniel Klaidman manages not only to present a convincingly intimate and sympathetic first-h...
The election of 38-year old Audra Shay of Louisiana to the chairmanship of the Young Republican National Federation on Saturday in Indianapolis might...
No American president has ever spoken so candidly on African soil about the real roots of Africa's development malaise.
It's time to pull the plug. Call off the resuscitation team. Bring in the coroner. Health care reform is dead. Obama gave it a good shot, but it was doomed from the start.
There is no doubt that the time is right for our President to assert the importance of working through global cooperation to achieve the mutally-desirable goal of planetary survival.
A quarter of US oil imports are expected to come from West Africa by 2015. That could explain why Obama chose Ghana over, say, his father's homeland of Kenya.
Sena Atoklo is a broadcast journalist and resident of Ghana who has worked with the BBC and ITV in the UK, and ETV South Africa. Over the next week, h...
Lt. Col. Vandeveld said, "I simply could not in good conscience continue to work for an ad-hoc, hastily created apparatus whose evident resort to expediency and ethical compromise were so contrary to my own."
Part of Obama's message is most assuredly that US assistance, heretofore strong and, at times, unquestioning, may in the future be linked to a compelling proof of democracy, openness and good governance.
"Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends..." All week long, this line has been running through my head. It's from an Emerson, Lake, and...
Why now? Why did the House allow hundreds of dubious, abusive Bush signing statements in eight years without such an amendment, but can find its courage and love of accountability today?
Amid the anticipated media narrative, of Ghana excitedly welcoming the first Black President on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa, many are also wondering about the substance.
President Obama obviously doesn't have enough time to watch TV regularly. But when he does, he's said in several recent interviews, he tries to catch HBO's Entourage.
Virtually all food assistance provided by the United States to Africa is required to be produced and packaged here and shipped on U.S. flagged vessels halfway around the world.
Taking someone's words and rearranging them to tell a completely different story is wrong. It's not journalism, reporting or even commentary. It's lying. So why isn't this front page news?
The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs : Re-Settling of US-Russia Relations Facts:US President Barack Obama traveled to Russia this week and met wi...
Right, Mr. O'Reilly, an event whose mission statement begins with "Our mission is primarily about spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ" doesn't have any "specific religion in play."
As the representative of GM's new majority owner, and as chief officer of the major banks in the US, Obama has become a de facto chairman of sorts and can now add 'Captain of Industry' 'to his resume.
President Obama should fulfill the promise of candidate Obama by engaging with the people of Africa and doubling foreign aid to $50 billion a year by 2012.
One can't help but wonder if by requesting this money from the G8 in the name of charity we are instead trying to promote our own economy.
The U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has shown no commitment to removing corporate giants from small business contracting programs.
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THE MONEY CLOCK
$306 to Wall Street for EVERY
$1 to Main Street
Bloomberg News says $12.8 Trillion to Wall Street from Bank Owned FED Reserve System and Treasury!
$50 Billion to Main Street so far!
Imagine where Main Street Manufacturing and High Tech and Green would be with $12.8 Trillion!
Jobs everywhere!
Foreclosures nearly eliminated as people have jobs!
Wall Street Banks goes down and Main Street Banks and Credit Unions take up the SLACK!
Reverse the numbers and let the Wall Street Banks go down under the weight of $700 Trillion in DEBTS! That is 50 years of US growth, 100% allocated to Banks! At least 200 Years of Pain if we save the WS BANKS
JPM = $88 Trillion in Debt
G0LDMAN = $47.8 Trillion in Debt
Okay.
But NOT on REAL health care reform.
Public Option sucks.
SINGLE-PAYER NOW!!
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After learning a little bit about the health care structure in Sweden, I'm warming up the public/private option idea.
Lobby Congress. E-mail. Fax. Call.
So the spending plan is already a flop even though only 10 percent has been spent? Even though it takes month for economic policy to have its full effect? It's such silliness. When the president asked for politicians to put childishness behind them for the sake of the country, he had no idea what kind of dead_enders he was dealing with in the GOP.
So the spending plan is already a flop even though only 10 percent has been spent? Even though it takes month for economic policy to have its full effect? It's such silliness. When the president asked for politicians to put childishness behind them for the sake of the country, he had no idea what kind of dead enders he was dealing with in the GOP.
Grover Norquist;
Janus-Merritt Strategies Main article:
Janus-Merritt Strategies In 1997, Norquist and lawyer David Safavian founded a lobbying firm, the Merritt Group, later renamed Janus-Merritt Strategies (sometimes referred to as "Janus Merritt" or simply "Janus").
Over the next five years, the firm's clients included international companies, Indian gaming interests, the government of Pakistan and the government of Gabon, and the American Muslim Council and Abdurahman Alamoudi, a fierce supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah
. On July 30, 2004 Abdurahman Alamoudi, pled guilty to three charges of illegal dealings with Libya, after admitting that he participated in a plot to murder Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah for Muammar al-Gaddafi and accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from top Libyan officials, in addition to tax and immigration violations. He was sentenced to 23 years in jail.
Senate disclosure reports on file show that for years Janus-Merritt registered as a lobbyist for Alamoudi. In 2002, Janus-Merritt was sold to the firm Williams Mullen. Norquist has refused to release tax records of the firm for the period during which he and Safavian owned the company.
Are you smarter than a 5th grader?
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