Hanson: Europeanizing Europe

March 13, 2009

Last summer, with several other Americans, I went to a garden reception attended by some French barristers, generals, and assorted professionals in Versailles. Most of them, conservatives and liberals alike, were quite ecstatic about the prospect of Barack Obama as the next American president — except one. He glanced around and then quietly whispered to […]

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Obama Official on Leave After FBI Raids

March 13, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — An aide to President Barack Obama is on leave from his White House job after the FBI raided his old District of Columbia government office Thursday, arresting a city employee and a technology consultant on corruption charges, a White House official said.

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Krauthammer: Obama Adopts Morally Unserious Approach to Stem Cells, Cloning

March 13, 2009

WASHINGTON — Last week, the White House invited me to a signing ceremony overturning the Bush (43) executive order on stem cell research. I assume this was because I have long argued in these columns and during my five years on the President’s Council on Bioethics that, contrary to the Bush policy, federal funding should […]

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Filling US Attorney Jobs With Politics in Mind Harder Now That Folks Are Paying Attention

March 13, 2009

One of the better spoils of winning the presidency is the power to appoint nearly 100 top prosecutors across the country. But filling the plum jobs has become a test of competing priorities for President Obama. While he pledged bipartisanship during his campaign, replacing the cadre of mostly conservative U.S. attorneys would signal a new […]

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Kondracke: Pakistan Must Be Admin's Top Priority

March 13, 2009

When the Obama administration settles on its “AfPak” strategy – that is, Afghanistan and Pakistan – top priority has to go to Pakistan. It’s the most dangerous place on earth: nuclear-armed, menaced by terrorists, economically in crisis and mired in political turmoil.

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Jack Welch Condemns Focus on Share Price

March 13, 2009

Jack Welch, who is regarded as the father of the “shareholder value” movement that has dominated the corporate world for more than 20 years, has said it was “a dumb idea” for executives to focus so heavily on quarterly profits and share price gains.

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Lawmakers Deny Freeman's Allegations About Israel Lobby

March 13, 2009

Republicans on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said pro-Israel lobby groups did not spur their opposition to Charles Freeman. Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.), a senior member of the House intelligence panel, also denied that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was involved in derailing Freeman’s appointment to head the National Intelligence Council.

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Obama's Quirks: What We've Learned So Far

March 13, 2009

Now that Barack Obama has been president for seven weeks, we’ve learned a few more things about him. Like every president, Obama has quirks. Or maybe we should call them characteristics or tendencies that we hadn’t expected. Here are a five of them:

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Bill Clinton Has Issues With Human Biology

March 13, 2009

Jill Stanek catches Bill Clinton in a deliciously ironic illiteracy on human biology. Maybe this explains why he tried to convince the nation that oral sex was not, you know, sex.

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Bill Richardson: The First Staffing Flub, and the Man Double-Crossed

March 13, 2009

The president’s staffing nightmares began with Bill Richardson, the erstwhile Commerce nominee, who has told confidants that he was promised the secretary of State job. Now, with looming investigations and sinking polls, Richardson may be lucky to hang on as governor of New Mexico.

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