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Obama Should Return ROTC to Elite Universities
Tweet Share on Facebook December 30, 2010 Comment (6)Last week, I advanced several ideas the president might include in the State of the Union Address he is to give early in the New Year.
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Ideas for Obama's 2011 State of the Union Address
Tweet Share on Facebook December 23, 2010 Comment (8)With the Congress about to conclude its business for the year and the president departing for Hawaii, now might be as good a time as any to contemplate how the two branches might build on their respective achievements in the waning days of 2010. How might they use this lull to plan a better and more secure future for the American people? I have a couple of suggestions. Perhaps the president will consider them as he prepares his State of the Union Address, slated for delivery early in 2011.
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Hudsons' Healthcare Ruling Could be Obamacare's Death Knell
Tweet Share on Facebook December 15, 2010 Comment (9)It is no longer news to say that President Obama seldom seems to catch a break. It is equally true that the few he gets soon become eclipsed by the unforeseen and the unexpected.
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Obama Bites the Hands That May Have Saved His Presidency
Tweet Share on Facebook December 9, 2010 Comment (10)It was a rare moment in the annals of presidential history. The president of the United States stands before the microphones to discuss a budget agreement he had reached with the opposition party. The deal they cut keeps the government functioning, eliminates the prospect of government shutdowns, tells taxpayers and investors the rules by which they will be held to as they make important financial decisions for the coming year, and gives the lame duck Congress time to act on other items to which the president says he awards a high priority, like the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” (an action that would allow gays to serve in the military without concealing this part of their identify).
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Congress Needs to Act in Response to WikiLeaks
Tweet Share on Facebook December 2, 2010 Comment (3)We do not as of yet know what damage the wide dissemination of classified government documents WikiLeaks, courtesy of its well-positioned moles, made available to news outlets will do to American security interests or to U.S. relations with other nations. As of this writing, it would appear that this latest document dump will have proved less harmful to troops and to intelligence sources and methods than the one that preceded it last summer. (We don’t yet know what potential damage may be done by the publication of other documents WikiLeaks has yet to hand over.)
