President Obama declared good progress Wednesday on his pledge to double U.S. exports over the next five years, saying the nation's sales abroad were up 17 percent in first four months of this year.
There is no better proof of a dysfunctional - and broke - system of government than Congress passing additional funding for the Afghan war - $300 billion thus far - while simultaneously denying the unemployed an extension of benefits - and then taking a 10-day Independence Day vacation. With the jobless rate hovering just under 10 percent of a 158-million-strong U.S. labor force, including 1.3 million who didn't get their benefits reinstated and an additional 200,000 a week who have been without a job for at least six months and stand to lose their benefits each week until Congress acts, about 15 million Americans are out of work.
On paper, Walt Minnick should be toast.
Quietly in June, the third rail of politics had the juice knocked out of it. Both the majority and the minority leaders of the House of Representatives either said aloud or hinted
The Obama administration announced Tuesday it will sue to block Arizona's new immigration law, the Associated Press reported, drawing President Obama even deeper into the politically thorny issue.
The Obama administration announced Tuesday it will sue to block Arizona's new immigration law, the Associated Press reported, drawing President Obama even deeper into the politically thorny issue.
With the recently issued findings of a committee that found both men at fault, the highly publicized incident involving Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department has been turned into one of pure mollycoddling and political appeasement ("Report faults Harvard teacher and cop," Web, News, Wednesday).
Quietly in June, the third rail of politics had the juice knocked out of it. Both the majority and the minority leaders of the House of Representatives either said aloud or hinted
The Obama administration is proposing a new rule to tighten restrictions on pollution from coal-burning power plants in the eastern half of the country, a move environmental groups claim is a key step to cutting emissions that cause smog.
