In the history of mankind, many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state. TR
11:25 am || Interviewed by KOAT Albuquerque, KDKA Pittsburgh and WVEC Hampton Roads on education reform and potential changes No Child Left Behind; Map Room 12:30 pm || Lunch with Biden 1:45 pm || Meets with student finalists of the Intel Science Talent Search 2011 competition 4:30 pm || Meets with Defense Secretary Gates 5:30 pm || Meets with the combatant commanders; Cabinet Room 7:00
Americans are evenly divided on whether the United States should establish a No Fly Zone in Libya, with 44 percent approving and 45 percent saying no, according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center. But Americans overwhelmingly oppose bombing Libyan air defenses, a necessary step in enforcing a No Fly Zone. The poll seems poorly constructed to me, since the question about bombing
We’ve already described for you President Obama’s unfortunate habit of putting his feet up on the nearest piece of furniture, whether it be a coffee table or the historic Resolute Oval Office desk. But now things have just gone too far. White House Dossier has obtained this photo of a recent meeting between Obama and Chief of Staff William Daley. This has totally got to
President Obama’s conference on bullying Thursday was deeply ironic to some in the White House press corps. That’s because every reporter who regularly covers the place knows that President Obama’s staff has a policy – an actual, pre-conceived policy – of bullying. It’s a tactic that amount to no less than suppression of speech. By the “openness” administration. The White House bullies reporters to try
President Obama is stonewalling Republican investigators trying to get details of his meetings with lobbyists on the health reform, according to the Huffington Post. Bill Clinton says Obama’s moving too slow on issuing new oil and gas drilling permits and that he’d back a No Fly Zone over Lybia, POLITICO reports. POLITICO also has an interesting piece on how Sarah Palin is running afoul of
Eliot Cohen has a very direct piece out in the Wall Street Journal on how we have bungled Libya and what the consequences will be. Not only have we erred badly by not finishing off Qaddafi when we had him, but we have made matters worse by demanding he leave, making threats that we might intervene, and then doing nothing and failing to dislodge him
“No, Bill, you absolutely cannot go to Tripoli as a special envoy to arrange safe passage for Qaddafi’s Ukrainian nurses.” – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton An note from our attorneys: This is not a real quote.