Donald Trump revived his birther talk last night €“ egged on by Sean Hannity. On a Hannity show that was supposedly a forum for each of the Republican presidential candidates, Trump got the first half hour - while each of the participating candidates got just a few minutes in the second half of the show. It was as if even Hannity was acknowledging his lack of enthusiasm for the roster.
GateHouse Media, Inc.: One of the Republican Party mantras of late is to accuse President Obama of trying to bring "European-style socialism" to America, a claim that is made with outright contempt, as though one were talking to an Iowa farmer about growing endives. | In a 2010 Reuters article Bernd Debusmann points out...
The White House received a letter last year purported to come directly from Mullah Omar, the reclusive leader of the Taliban, asking the United States to deliver militant prisoners whose transfer is now at the heart of the Obama administration€™s bid to broker peace in Afghanistan.
The previously undisclosed communication was considered authentic by people who saw it, but sceptical administration officials say they cannot determine if it actually came from Omar. | The unsigned letter was passed through a Taliban intermediary in July. An administration official says it represented views consistent with what Taliban emissaries had been telling U.S. officials.
The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the National Drug Intelligence Center in Johnstown, championed by the late U.S. Rep. John Murtha, will close in the summer.
William J. Baer, a lawyer at Arnold and Porter, was nominated by President Obama to head the Justice Department's antitrust division. Mr. Baer, who leads his firm's antitrust practice group, previously headed the Federal Trade Commission's competition...
"Religious liberty in our country is in jeopardy." Catholics in the Washington, D.C., area heard those ominous words from their archbishop read during Masses last Sunday. With similar statements echoing through churches around the country, the Republican candidates for president have taken up the cry.
In his State of the Union address, President Obama proposed several measures to lower college tuition. University leaders responded cautiously, warning that cost-cutting reforms might also cut into instructional quality.
"Now, these numbers will go up and down in the coming months, and there's still far too many Americans who need a job, or need a job that pays better than the one they have now. | But the economy is growing stronger. The recovery is speeding up. And we've got to do everything in our power to keep it going," Obama said. | At the same time, Obama argued, the US can't go back to the policies that led to the recession.
As President Obama quite rightly insisted in his State of the Union address, institutions of higher learning must do more to hold down their costs if college education is to remain affordable for the next generation of young people. What's more, he's talking about using the federal government's financial clout to encourage cost containment.
WASHINGTON — President Obama received a message last year, purporting to be from the elusive Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar, in which he expressed an interest in opening talks that could end the war in Afghanistan, according to several current...
President Obama is right to draw attention to the soaring cost of a college education in America. However, his proposed solution will not only fail to fix the problem but is also likely to compound it by blunting the competition that is needed to shake...
Analysis: Obama, GOP work to frame what matters: how economy is now, or where it's headed? | The GOP Presidential candidates' race for delegates is only just beginning. | JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - An overflow crowd turned out Friday evening to witness the unveiling of a portrait of the late-U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens at the Alaska State Museum. | The $11,000 painting was commissioned by the Alaska Legislature's Legislative Council.
Analysis: Obama, GOP work to frame what matters: how economy is now, or where it's headed? | The GOP Presidential candidates' race for delegates is only just beginning. | Even before the AP published the document, Kelly was under fire from Muslim groups who were angry that a controversial movie about Muslims, "The Third Jihad," was shown at NYPD training sessions. Kelly appears briefly in the movie.
By Drew Brooks President Obama on Friday unveiled new initiatives aimed at turning veterans into firefighters, police officers and entrepreneurs. The initiatives, which must be approved by Congress, are aimed specifically at post-9/11 service members.
Fifty-three-year-old Ralph Edward Thomas Jr. of Reisterstown was also ordered to pay more than $800,000 in restitution, forfeit his home and luxury cars at sentencing on Friday. | According to his plea agreement, Thomas stole from a trust established for the child and used the money to buy his Reisterstown home. He also stole from an elderly woman's account and used the money to pay his credit card bills.
GateHouse Media, Inc.: For one who works in higher education, Gina Zindt (Jan. 28 Spotlight, "Obama is responsible for Congress' dysfunction") sure has a penchant for writing opinion letters that are fraught with non-sequiturs and conservative propaganda.
A dispute over working conditions at a Brooklyn apartment complex may be a test case for whether President Barack Obama's appointments to the National Labor Relations Board are legal. | "The Board lacked a quorum and has no authority to file the petition because three of its putative members have not been validly appointed," Clement alleges in the filing.
President Obama's nomination of Los Angeles attorney Paul Watford to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday but ran into Republican opposition...
US lawmakers are steeling for a public battle against the possible transfer of Taliban detainees out of Guantanamo Bay prison, a key step in the Obama administration's bid to broker a peace deal ending the war in Afghanistan.
George Schryer: WASHINGTON – The Obama administration has taken "operational steps" to move five Taliban leaders from Guantanamo Bay as part of a confidence-building measure to further peace talks with the Afghan Taliban – a development that comes in advance...
Reuters: The White House received a letter last year purported to come directly from Mullah Omar, the reclusive leader of the Taliban, asking the United States to deliver militant prisoners whose transfer is now at the heart of the Obama administration's bid to broker peace in Afghanistan.
Reuters: Lawmakers are steeling for a public battle against the possible transfer of Taliban detainees out of Guantanamo Bay prison, a key step in the Obama administration's bid to broker a peace deal ending the war in Afghanistan.
Peace and prosperity enhance the incumbent president's party's electoral chances; war and recession enhance the chances of the opposition. In November of 2008, on the eve of the election, after eight years of Republican rule, the American electorate...
Detained and Abused Will the federal government provide illegal immigrants the same protections as prisoners from sexual abuse? | Justice is finalizing the rape-prevention regulations under the authority of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, a 2003 law that Congress passed unanimously.
Cutting aid to colleges that do not keep tuition low and doubling the current number of available work-study jobs are highlights of the Obama administration's blueprint for keeping higher education affordable. | While state governments handle public university funding and individual universities determine how to allocate their budgets, the federal government has the power to provide student financial aid.
Catholics in the Washington, D.C., area heard those ominous words from their archbishop during masses last Sunday. With similar statements echoing through churches around the country, the Republican candidates for president have taken up the cry. | It€™s a decision that€™s politically baffling, as the president heads into a tough election in which the Catholic vote could be critical.
Snyder said that, "America's gun owners generally have been wise to Obama since the get-go. Millions of Americans acquire firearms to defend themselves and others, to defend life itself. Obama's Supreme Court justice appointees and other appointees...
Keywords: €“ Attorney General Eric Holder says the Justice Department is preparing to close investigations into the deaths of two detainees while in CIA custody, marking the final chapter in a controversial review by the Obama administration into treatment of terrorism suspects during the George W. Bush administration. | Federal prosecutor John Durham has been looking at the deaths of Gul Rahman and Manadel al-Jamadi.
Attorney General Eric Holder clashed with Republicans at a House committee hearing Thursday over demands that the Justice Department turn over more documents about a flawed gun-smuggling investigation. | Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif.
Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan elaborated on President Barack Obama's higher education blueprint in a conference call Thursday with The Daily Reveille and student journalists across the nation. The ultimate goal is to bring America's rank in graduation rates from 16th place in the world to first by 2020, Biden said.
Education reform is always a hot-button issue, but more so in an election year. The topic was front and center of President Obama's recent State of the Union address. His plans included making higher education more affordable by forcing colleges...
Was it really possible, I wondered, that Obama had mistaken the U.S. government for the Harvard Law Review, where the emollient balm of his personality persuaded rival factions to reason together? Did he actually believe that the political battles of the Clinton and Bush years could be laughed off as "the psychodrama of the Baby Boom generation," easily transcended by an Ivy League raisonneur like him?
David Ignatius published an alarming story in today€™s Washington Post, in which he quotes Leon Panetta predicting an Israeli attack on Iran in €œApril, May or June.
President Barack Obama has proposed new measures to provide relief to university students and families struggling to pay skyrocketing tuition costs nationwide. | But the passage of his proposals are anything but certain. | He also called for shifting $10 billion annually from schools who fail to curtail tuition costs to schools that seek to curb tuition hikes and better aid needy students.
Theresa Caivano: Circuit Court of Appeals rulings approved the law in Washington, D.C. and Cincinnati, Ohio. In Atlanta, Georgia, the Court struck down Obamacare while the Circuit Court in Virginia said it could make no decision until 2015 when the penalties are to be applied when no insurance is purchased under the mandate. | It looks like a decision will be rendered no later than July of 2012 €“ right in the middle of the 2012 Presidential Campaign.
Students and administrators may soon see a change in federal financial aid. | Vice President Joe Biden spoke in a conference call Thursday to provide follow-up information after President Barack Obama commented on the White House's plan to work on the affordability of postsecondary education in his State of the Union address on Tuesday Jan. 24.
President Barack Obama may get his wish for a dragged-out Republican primary contest that leaves the eventual GOP nominee battered before the fall election. | The prospect is galvanizing the Democrats' ranks and boosting fund-raising. | "They've awakened some sleeping giants," said Ira Leesfield, a Miami attorney and longtime Democratic fund-raiser.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski are challenging schools and companies to get digital texts going mainstream within five years. The effort by officials in the Obama administration's push...
In his State of the Union address on the night of Jan. 24, President Barack Obama presented a forceful case for keeping a college education affordable for all Americans.
David Bromwich: Of course, the suspected Iranian operation might have been the public face of an Israeli operation. We now know from Mark Perry's story "False Flag," in Foreign Policy, that Mossad agents in recent years posed as CIA agents to recruit Pakistani Jundullah terrorists in order to sow mayhem in Iran. Actions such as the "mysterious" recent explosions in Iran and the assassination of lower-echelon nuclear scientists on the streets of Tehran --...
On yesterday€™s Your World, host Neil Cavuto used the €œi€ word as he suggested that President Obama might be impeached as a result of Republican legal efforts against his recess appointments.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education: Keywords: €œIt€™s a significant carrot to help folks scale up what€™s working,€ Duncan said. | The funds would be awarded to states similar to how funds were awarded to states that successfully competed for grants from the department€™s Race to the Top to initiate innovative K-12 reforms.
We asked Caucasus expert Tom de Waal a few questions following Monday's meeting between U.S. president Barack Obama and Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili in Washington. de Waal is a journalist and writer, previously Caucasus editor of Institute for War and Peace Reporting, and now senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, focusing on the South Caucasus.
U.S. lawmakers are steeling for a public battle against the possible transfer of Taliban detainees out of Guantanamo Bay prison, a key step in the Obama administration's bid to broker a peace deal ending the war in Afghanistan.
A leading American rights group has sued the US government, saying the Justice Department should release legal justification for targeted assassination program that killed US citizens abroad. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Wednesday filed...
WASHINGTON €” The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal court Wednesday to force the Obama administration to release legal and intelligence records related to the killing of three U.S. citizens in drone attacks in Yemen last year. | The lawsuit, filed in U.S.
The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal court Wednesday to force the Obama administration to release legal and intelligence records related to the killing of three U.S. citizens in drone attacks in Yemen last year. | The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in New York, charged the Justice and Defense departments and the CIA with illegally failing to respond to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act.
RECENT reports from the White House suggest that President Obama's evening file – his equivalent of a ministerial red box – always contains up to 10 letters from citizens across the US. | Mixed in with the rest of the file's work, presumably intelligence briefings, legislative proposals and so on, this correspondence aims to give him a flavour of American everyday concerns and help shape his policy and campaigning direction.
In the hands of Zeus, the thunderbolt was both an instrument of justice and a weapon of jealousy and revenge. Those now dispensing judgment from on high are not gods, though they must feel like it. The people striking mortals down with drones...
In contention is the selection of a number of people for the peace prize who have not actually advanced the cause of peace. President Barack Obama, who won the prize in 2009 when his administration was no yet a year old, has been specifically mentioned as one of the laureates who should not have been given the peace prize.
LAS VEGAS €” Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney engaged in a skirmish over the middle class with President Barack Obama's campaign Wednesday, a preview of a clash that could dominate a fall campaign between the two. [...] Romney's tax plan could raise taxes for lower-income families and would give big tax cuts to millionaires. €œGov.
Less than a week after President Barack Obama appeared in Ann Arbor touting improved access to education as a means of boosting the national economy, Biden took his turn in Grand Rapids. Like Obama, he is calling for major changes in the way the United States handles companies that ship jobs and revenue overseas. | The backdrop for Biden's message was the 125-year-old American Seating Co. plant.
Donovan Slack: Brooks identified one Clinton initiative as an example - no handguns for dead-beat dads, which Brooks called a "two-fer," meant to rally anti-gun advocates and women. | "These are not issues worthy of presidential attention," Brooks said.
When students cry for help, President Barack Obama answers. To a screaming crowd at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor last Friday, the president uttered that magical mantra that never fails to excite every college student, from the cash-strapped to the loan-laden: make college more affordable. However, Obama's proposal might not be the cure-all universities need or want.
Joseph Cirincione: Shortly after taking office, Obama traveled to Prague to lay out a vision of a world "free of nuclear weapons." Now the Pentagon has prepared a top-secret memo for the White House, and the president has to decide whether to maintain or shrink the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Now he must decide whether he will uphold the principles he once preached.
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During a speech Friday at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, President Obama credited his college education to receiving scholarships and student loans. He was met with cheers and applause as he proposed federal action to punish colleges that keep hiking up their cost of entry.
President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, Jan. 24. At this moment of economic downturn, Obama took a tough line on jobs, defended his economic policy record and adopted a confrontational attitude heading into the 2012 election season.
In the 2012 State of the Union address President Obama stressed the importance of education, particularly in the sciences and technology, to keeping up technologically with the rest of the world. | In his third State of the Union Address last Tuesday, President Obama stressed the importance of bolstering our education systemto secure America's place in the technologically advanced future.
Fortunately, it€™s rare to find a politician willing to discourage American students from pursuing higher education. Yet, in this Republican primary season, we€™ve found one such candidate in former Senator Rick Santorum. Last week he speculated that Obama only wants more students to attend college because the universities€™ €œindoctrination€¦is one of the keys to the left holding and maintaining power in America.€ Santorum€™s...
The award to Obama came based on his first 12 days as president. Since then, he has continued wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as bombing Libya and Somalia and sending U.S. ground forces to Uganda. This displeases many people who were so enthralled by him that they honored him in 2009 before he accomplished anything — much the same way he was elected president. | The worm definitely has turned.
The inquiry, the Democrats say, was just one of four such operations that were part of a misguided five-year effort, during the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, in the Phoenix division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives against firearms trafficking along the Southwest border. | "Operation Fast and Furious was the latest in a series of fatally flawed operations run by ATF agents...
A report issued late Monday night by the Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform tries to debunk suggestions by Republicans that high level appointees at the Justice Department conceived and directed the very flawed ATF Operation Fast and Furious. It places the blame for the operation squarely on the agents in Phoenix.
When it comes to national security issues and the way in which the president conducts issues of civil liberties, is the Obama administration any better than the Bush administration? We all know about the various ways in which the Bush administration signed into law certain provisions that are scathingly unconstitutional: extraordinary rendition, warrant-less wiretaps, secret surveillance, suspending habeas corpus €” the list goes on and on.
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Tom de Waal is senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. | TBILISI, DFWatch – We asked Caucasus expert Tom de Waal a few questions following Monday's meeting between U.S. president Barack Obama and Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili in Washington.
During his speech Friday at the University of Michigan, President Barack Obama scrutinized the rising cost of attending college. Echoing sentiments from his State of the Union speech last week, Obama put publicly funded universities "on notice" to rein in tuition or face a decrease in federal funding.
On Tuesday night, Jan. 24, I watched, along with millions of others, as President Obama gave his third State of the Union address to the nation. | I applauded as I saw the remarkable Gabby Giffords show courage beyond belief as she entered the chamber and even when she hugged the President.
President Barack Obama came down hard on colleges and universities last week when he told them to contain costs or face cuts in federal aid to education . We are certainly in favor of stable tuition rates, and realize that has not been the case lately.
President Barack Obama rolled out a new plan Friday designed to reward universities with low tuition costs by granting them more federal funds, something several officials said bodes well for this university. | "Maryland is, in many ways, a good example for the rest of the nation," he said. | "It's absolutely needed, 100 percent," she said. "I don't have enough right now."
President Barack Obama has preached that all Americans should pay their fair share in taxes. He's focusing on the rich. | But there are examples right under his nose. | A government report finds that tens of thousands of federal employees — from staffers in Congress to federal agencies and even Obama's executive office — collectively owe the government billions in back taxes. | That is up from "only" $3.3 billion in 2009.
TO THE EDITOR: Last week, President Obama addressed the nation in his State of the Union Address. Obama discussed a range of important issues affecting American policy and the economy. Young people have a big part to play in the future of this country, and we are uniquely poised to make our voices heard in this important discussion.
William Hendrix's guest opinion of Jan. 26 concerning Vice President Joe Biden and Deputy Secretary of Education Tony Miller's visit to CB West seemed much less a comment on the particular speech than an excuse for a rant against the administration and policies of President Obama. The speech almost exclusively addressed education, and the cost and financing of college education in particular.
As President Barack Obama readies the final budget proposal of his first term, major overhauls in federal financial aid processes will be among the proposed key changes that he will introduce Feb. 13. | Nearly $8 million in Perkins loans are available for USC students this year by the Financial Aid Office, according to Thomas McWhorter, dean of financial aid.
President Barack Obama is turning to colleges and universities to create affordable college options through the €œCollege Scorecard€ and student aid reform. | Jean McDonald-Rash, University director of Financial Aid, said student involvement could help Obama€™s plan gain momentum at the University. | Ethan Winnegrad, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said higher education should be an affordable option for all.