January 31, 2010

 
by Salena Zito

Fair or not, voters have distaste and distrust this year for any candidate running under the “progressive” banner that was so wildly popular just last year.
“I essentially believe that ‘progressive’ is the wrong “P” to be describing yourself as this cycle,” said a Democratic strategist working on congressional campaigns across the [...]

January 31, 2010

by Kevin McCullough

The incoherent State of the Union address this week only reinforced what is becoming painfully obvious to any observer–President Obama’s proposals are more confusing than clarifying, they pretend to do something big but don’t achieve it, and they seem desperately out of touch with the average American.
How else can one explain [...]

January 31, 2010

by Austin Hill

“This is just un-American! This is not the way things should be in my country…”
I took careful note of these words, as I sat in a bar and listened to a friend venting about his struggle. It was the week between Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day, and my friend (we’ll [...]

By Debra Saunders (Archive) · Sunday, January 31, 2010
It was bad enough last month watching Washington politicians merrily flying off to the U.N. climate change Conference of Parties in Copenhagen (or COP-15 for short), ostensibly to draft a global warming treaty, when all the players knew that no meaningful pact would result and that [...]

JAN 31, 2010
Afghanistan Stories:
 

CJTF-82 in Afghanistan, Bagram Media Center
 

A surprise promotion for a Navy Ghazni PRT warrior

By AF Master Sgt. Sarah Webb 
 

GHAZNI PROVINCE – Navy Airman William Green sits behind the wheel of the up-armored Cougar he drives for the Comm. Officer of Ghazni PRT. Green also works in the communications section of the [...]

The State of the Caliphate is better than it should be
FEB 1, 20110
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
When a man is apprehended with a cache of weapons, body armor, a map of a military installation and jihadist personal effects, the natural response of most Americans is to assume the situation is terrorist-related. The Obama administration says otherwise.
Lloyd [...]

Both Sides Admit Disagreements Need to Be Addressed Cordially to Make Politics Work - and Debate Who’s Being More Uncivil
JAN 31, 2010
By Michelle Levi
(CBS)  Republican Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi agreed with President Obama’s point to the Republican caucus Friday that members of both parties ought to work through their disagreements with civility, yet he [...]

Special Inspector General Says Unemployment, Foreclosures Still Too High
By MATTHEW JAFFE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2010
The government’s controversial $700 billion bailout program has failed to achieve many of its objectives, a watchdog tells Congress in a new report out Saturday night.
Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), says in the [...]

By Simon Kennedy and Erik Schatzker

Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) — New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini, who anticipated the financial crisis, called the fourth quarter surge in U.S. economic growth “very dismal and poor” because it relied on temporary factors.
Roubini said more than half of the 5.7 percent expansion reported yesterday by the government was related [...]

“A good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.”
 
—George Washington, letter to Steptoe Washington, 1790
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