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Blumenthal in the Nixon White House
As the New York Times has reported, Connecticut Attorney General and Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal remained stateside during the Vietnam War thanks to five deferments he obtained, the last of which enabled him to take a job in the Nixon White House. During research for my book The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate (Doubleday 2008), I uncovered some documents that showed Blumenthal, then a staff lawyer for Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a key domestic policy adviser to the president, had aroused the suspicions of Attorney General Mitchell. The year was 1969, and the country was wracked by...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 03:05:28 AM
Obama concedes he hasn't brought country together (Still gives himself a B+)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says he has not succeeded in bringing the country together, acknowledging an atmosphere of divisiveness that has washed away the lofty national feeling surrounding his inauguration a year ago. "That's what's been lost this year ... that whole sense of changing how Washington works," Obama said in an interview with People magazine. The president said his second-year agenda will be refocused on uniting the country around common values, "whether we're Democrats or Republicans." "We all want work that's satisfying, pays the bills and gives children a better future and security," Obama said in the...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 03:05:28 AM
School of Obama
First it was social promotions. When our children had difficulty passing, we went to a pass/fail system that no longer honored achievement but simply sent the student on to the next grade in order to NOT stigmatize the child. Less emphasis was placed on factual and historical learning and placed on project achievements and social awareness sensitivity. 2 + 2 could = 5 if we tried hard. And we get dumber. Next we went to No Child Left Behind. In order to increase the minimal education level of American students, we began to “test Teach”. That is, the teachers and...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 03:05:28 AM
Rookie Mistakes
The press is all agog over the President leading the UN security council which came out with extremely artfully worded resolution that endorses the eventual goal of "a world without nuclear weapons". That document is so carefully wordsmithed that the 2 most obvious violators of the UN's non proliferation treaty Iran and North Korea weren't mentioned by name. A vaguely worded document from an dysfunctional international agency and the press tells us how much progress is being made. The facts tell a different story, a story of a rookie in way over his head.
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 03:05:28 AM
Stimulus' downside: Rising jobless rate
They saved the banks. Who cares . . . if people are still losing their jobs? So is another stimulus in the works? "Any economic stimulus plan is going to be part political, part economic." Last winter's plan "was two parts political, loaded with projects for folks who'd missed out the past eight years," said Vitner. "If they're going to get another one through, it's going to have to help the folks who didn't support the first one." That means more road and bridge projects, more aid to state and local governments, and maybe tax breaks for small business.
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 03:05:28 AM
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