President Barack Obama has come under a little bit of fire for making a recess appointment of Donald Berwick to take charge of Medicare and Medicaid. Normally, the Senate has to confirm or reject such appointments by the President. But if he waits until Congress is in recess, he can fill positions temporarily without the […]
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It is easy to see parallels between General Stanley McChrystal’s insubordination towards President Obama and that of Douglas MacArthur towards President Truman many years ago. In both cases you had a war that’s popularity was dwindling–then Korea, now Afghanistan. And you had the general in charge of operations disrespecting his commander in chief. However, MacArthur
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It’s hard to generate much sympathy for BP. Their operation led to an explosion that killed several people and is now pouring countless amounts of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. I understand President Obama’s desire to make them pay, and I see where they really couldn’t put up much of a fuss about
I read an interesting article online today. The writer expressed his frustration that the international community has made a much bigger deal out of an Israeli action that killed 9, rather than a North Korean action that killed over 40. Let’s look at some of the facts: Israel was inspecting goods that were going into
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Several things have occurred to me in relation to the oil leak in the Gulf and subsequent efforts to deal with the problem. Would it be possible to work on multiple efforts for stopping the leak at the same time? It seems like they try one thing then when that fails they start on
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