Obama’s push for Clinton to disclose her first lady papers raises questions about his own transparency
White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who is making government transparency a centerpiece of the latest phase of his campaign, does not always practice what he preaches when it comes to his own business.
Read More...Mary Ann Glendon, who has served in key Vatican posts for years, may soon represent her native country before the Holy See.
U.S. President George Bush announced today his intention to nominate Glendon, Harvard law professor and president of the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences, as ambassador of the United States to the Holy See.
Read More...Quincy, Illinois’ most famous (or infamous: there’s no statue), son has died at 92: Brigadier General Paul Tibbets, Jr., pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress named for his mother. Only 30-years-old when he dropped Little Boy on the citizens of Hiroshima, Tibbets spent the rest of his life defending his action with a simple, utilitarian argument: Dropping the atomic bomb saved lives, Japanese as well as American, by ending the war. Would he have done it again? “Hell, yeah.” And he slept well at night, thank you. “There is no morality in war,” Tibbets said in 2002.
Now he knows the truth.
But do we? Americans are more than ... Read More...
The mayor coughs up $40 Million in financial assistance for one of the most successful corporations in the country that has just finished a $12 Billion merger. The governor arranges for a $4 Million to be paid to a good friend of Karl Rove. In a time of record high gas prices, both senators arrange a 50 cent tax on imported ethanol to assist a local conglomerate, while using the same conglomerate’s private airplane to travel back and forth to Washington D.C.
The senator who extols the fact that he comes from a poor neighborhood campaigns for a public school monopoly, while neither he nor his children have attended a day of public school. The other senator campaigns for sugar tariffs, while 10,000 Teamster union workers are laid off because of high sugar prices. Such a combination of favors to business and the State enterprise monopolies in exchange for campaign ... Read More...
