Archive for 'National Politics'
A Ridge of a Different Color
Tom Ridge, former governor of Pennsylvania, and erstwhile Director of Homeland Security (oh how I hate that name) admits the technicolor threat index was politically motivated.
In a soon to be released book (doesn’t that figure), Ridge states that President Bush’s political operatives wanted the threat index raised just before the 2004 presidential election. Ridge concedes [...]
Posted: August 21st, 2009 under National Politics.
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The Public Option and Change We Can Believe In
The latest media rumblings suggest that the public option, a hallmark of the Obama Health Care Plan, is in trouble. It seems the GOP inspired screaming and yelling, born of ignorance, is scaring our elected representatives into quite possibly walking away from this essential element of the plan.
This would be most unfortunate. Anyone who has [...]
Posted: August 18th, 2009 under National Politics.
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Homeland Insecurity
A couple of weeks ago I was in New York for my nephew’s wedding. At the reception, a cousin regaled me with a tale of his encounter with Homeland Security at the Minneapolis airport. The upshot is that the security folks seized my cousin’s toothpaste.
Fast forward to this past weekend in New York City. An [...]
Posted: August 11th, 2009 under Chester County Lawyer, National Politics.
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Of Contracts and Class Warfare
Lawrence Summers, educated at MIT and Harvard, Ph.D. in economics, former President of Harvard and now President Obama’s Director of the National Economic Council recently said the government cannot step in and abrogate the contracts of the AIG bonus burglars. This puzzles me.
Tonight Keith Olbermann of MSNBC asked why are executive contracts sacrosanct, while busting [...]
Posted: March 18th, 2009 under National Politics.
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