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Op-Ed Columnist/Maureen Dowd: A Year After Cario Speech, Obama Now Seems Ineffectual To the Muslim World (New York Times)
With two little words, Barack Hussein Obama thrilled the Muslim world.
“Salaam aleikum,” he said, offering the traditional Arabic greeting “Peace be upon you” at the start of his Cairo speech last year.
The address of the first American president with Muslim roots was a bravura attempt to leech out the poison between the Islamic and Western [...]
Chris Hedges/Opinion: FED EX – Charming Mr. Obama, While Busting Up The Unions (Truthdig)
Dean Henderson’s career with FedEx ended abruptly when a reckless driver plowed into his company truck and mangled his leg. His doctor will decide this week if it needs to be amputated. No longer able to drive, stripped of value in our commodity culture, he was tossed aside by the company. He became human refuse. [...]
Mike Rose/Opinion: Race to the Top of What? Education Is About More Than Jobs (Truthdig)
The race is on. Forty-one states have just finished the mad dash to submit proposals for the Obama education initiative, Race to the Top. Now that the first round of competition is over we should be asking the basic questions that got lost in the flurry: What is the true purpose of all this reform? [...]
PHIL KERPEN/OPINION: Please, Mr. President, No More Stimulus! (Fox News)
On the one year anniversary of the stimulus bill, the verdict is clear: Obama and the Democrats were wrong, and the American people were right.
One year ago today the Democrats forced a huge, bloated, pork-barrel spending bill through Congress that they called an “economic stimulus.” When the legislation was conceived they thought it would sail [...]
Obama’s Nuclear Power Policy: A Study In Contradictions? (The Christian Science Monitor)
President Obama has followed up on his support for “a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants,” laid out Jan. 27 in his State of the Union speech, by proposing to triple public financing for nuclear power.
The Department of Energy recently proposed $36 billion in new federal loan guarantees on top of $18.5 billion [...]
WILLIAM MCGURN/OPINION: Biden Tries To Rewrite History (Wall Street Journal)
It’s easy to pile on Joe Biden. Vice presidents, after all, acquire reputations in Washington they never really shake. Dick Cheney was Darth Vader, and now Joe Biden is the embarrassing uncle you try to keep away from the microphone.
Neither is entirely fair. Still, when Mr. Biden claims success for a victory won by a [...]
THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON: The Wrap-Up February 12, 2010 (Washington Post)
Harry Reid has never been the most talkative or introspective of politicians, so interpreting his behavior and predicting what he'll do next has long been a popular, and difficult, Capitol parlor game.
Thursday was particuarly puzzling for Reid-watchers. Did the Senate have a bipartisan deal on a jobs bill, or not? Depends on what time during [...]
Edward Luce/ Opinion: Obama & His Chicago Advisors. The Failure Of The Presidency (Financial Times)
At a crucial stage in the Democratic primaries in late 2007, Barack Obama rejuvenated his campaign with a barnstorming speech, in which he ended on a promise of what his victory would produce: “A nation healed. A world repaired. An America that believes again.”
Just over a year into his tenure, America’s 44th president governs a [...]
OPINION/SALON: Liberals And Sara Palin Agree, Obama Must ‘Fire White House Chief Of Staff Rahm Emanuel’ (Salon)
President Obama promised he’d find a way to unite often-warring political factions. Finally, some concrete proof arrived Tuesday that he’s managed to do just that: Sarah Palin has joined some prominent liberal bloggers in calling for Obama to fire his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.
Both Palin and the blogs were upset by comments reported in [...]
OPINION/WALL STREET JOURNAL: The President’s Priorities – Spend While You Can
One rule of budget reporting is to watch what the politicians are spending this year, not the frugality they promise down the road. By that measure, the budget that President Obama released yesterday for fiscal 2011 is one of the greatest spend-while-you-can documents in American history.
We now know why the White House leaked word of [...]
