Obama announces his noble prize money to charities (Press Trust of India)
Washington, Mar 12 (PTI) US President Barack Obama today announced that he’ll donate his USD 1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize award money among several charities, including USD 200,000 to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund and USD 250,000 to Fisher House, which provides housing to families of patients at military medical centers.
Texas Education Board Approves Conservative Curriculum Changes By Far-Right
AUSTIN, Texas — A far-right faction of the Texas State Board of Education succeeded Friday in injecting conservative ideals into social studies, history and economics…
Rick Sloan: In Politics, It’s All About Timing, and Democratic Governors Could Use Some
For Democratic gubernatorial candidates, time is running out. And two uncontrollable forces are making their political lives exceedingly perilous.
Miles Mogulescu: Obama, Durbin and Pelosi All Point Fingers at Someone Else for Killing Public Option
Barack Obama says he supports a public option but claims there aren’t 51 votes in the Senate to pass it in reconciliation. Senate Majority Whip…
Carol Smaldino: Education and the End of ‘Why’
Given the facts on the ground, our President’s current attempts to make all education standards uniform negates the essence of what makes this country what it is: diverse.
Bill Maher: New Rule: Let’s Not Fire the Teachers When Students Don’t Learn — Let’s Fire the Parents
Last week, President Obama defended the firing of every single teacher in a struggling high school in a poor Rhode Island neighborhood. But according to all the studies, it doesn’t matter what teachers do. What matters is what parents do. The number one predictor of a child’s academic success is parental involvement. It doesn’t even matter if your kid goes to private or public school. So save the twenty grand a year and treat yourself to a nice vacation away from the little brats.
Irish PM Brian Cowen to meet with Obama (Washington Post)
LONDON — At a time of deep concern over growing government debt in Europe and the United States, Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen is heading to Washington as a global spokesman for fiscal restraint.
John Zogby: Health Care Reform: Caddell and Schoen Have It Wrong
We don’t agree that Democrats will get all the blame whether the Obama plan passes or fails.
Clinton slams Israel on housing announcement (San Francisco Chronicle)
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday delivered a stinging rebuke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his government’s announcement this week of new Jewish housing in east Jerusalem, calling it “a deeply negative signal” for the… East Jerusalem – Benjamin Netanyahu – Prime Minister of Israel – Hillary Rodham Clinton – United States Secretary of State
(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-12 21:44 FACTBOX-Facts about Obama’s deficit panel appointees (Interactive Investor)
March 12 (Reuters) – Republican leaders from the U.S. Congress named six appointees on Friday to an 18-member bipartisan panel charged with tackling the skyrocketing U.S. deficit. President Barack Obama has already named six members to the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, including co-chairmen Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. Senate Democrats have picked three …
Union Threatens To Pull Support For Dems Who Don’t Support Health Care Reform
In what seems intended as a shot across the bow of House Dems wavering on health reform, top officials with the labor powerhouse SEIU have…
Landra Reid Undergoes Surgery After I-95 Crash: Senator Harry Reid At Hospital, Daughter Released
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s wife underwent surgery Friday to stabilize serious injuries suffered when a tractor-trailer rear-ended the minivan she…
Bill Wade: A Bogus Choice Between Creating Jobs and Protecting Federal Lands
Sadly, short-sighted politicians have presented a bogus choice between creating jobs and better protecting areas that the federal government, and therefore the American people, already own.
Deborah Dumont: Education Reform: Accent on the Wrong Syllable
What is President Obama thinking? His get-tough education plan will damage and isolate schools that need federal support, not punishment.
