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Obama, Netanyahu try to mend fences
President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to exude a new sense of warmth in their rocky relationship Tuesday as both expressed confidence that the Israeli leader will soon hold direct peace talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. “The bond between the United States and Israel is unbreakable,” said Obama,
Poll: More Think Obama Stimulus Hurt Employment Than Helped
A plurality of Americans believe President Barack Obama’s stimulus package has harmed economic growth, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll released on Friday. Less than a third, 29 percent, believe the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus package, improved
A Letter to Michael Steele
Dear Michael, You are, I know, a patriot. So I ask you to consider, over this July 4 weekend, doing an act of service for the country you love: Resign as chairman of the Republican party. Your tenure has of course been marked by gaffes and embarrassments, but I for one have never paid much attention to them, and have never thought they would matter
Bias and the IPCC report: Accentuate the negative
FOR everyone else it was the glaciers: for the Dutch it was the flooding. Last January errors in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) hit the headlines. The chapter on Asia in the report by the IPCC’s second working group, charged with looking at the impact of climate change and adapting to it, mistakenly claimed that the
US government to sue Arizona over immigration law
The lawsuit will argue that the new law, which requires state and local police to question and possibly arrest illegal immigrants during the enforcement of other laws such as traffic stops, violates the Constitution
Barack Obama: Nasa must try to make Muslims ‘feel good’
Charles Bolden, a retired United States Marines Corps major-general and former astronaut, said in an interview with al-Jazeera that Nasa was not only a space exploration agency but also an “Earth improvement agency”. Mr Bolden said: “When I became the Nasa administrator, he [Mr Obama] charged me with three things.
Barack Obama’s ‘politics as usual’ revealed by Rod Blagojevich trial
In a year when Americans are arguably more cynical and disillusioned about politics than at any time since Watergate, the corruption trial of Rod Blagojevich is a sobering reminder of how its practitioners operate. Although “Blago”, the foul-mouthed bouffant buffoon, is the main attraction of the Chicago production, the former Illinois governor’s
Gen. Petraeus, ‘we are in this to win’
Gen. David Petraeus formally assumed command of the 130,000-strong international force in Afghanistan on Sunday, declaring “we are in this to win” despite rising casualties and growing skepticism about the nearly 9-year-old war. During a ceremony at NATO headquarters, Petraeus received two flags — one for the U.S. and the other for NATO
Bidens spend 4th in Iraq
On a surprise Fourth of July weekend trip to Baghdad, Vice President Joe Biden said he is “optimistic” about Iraq forming a government after a four-month stalemate, but added: “What that will be, I can’t tell you.”The vice president will assess conditions
America is sinking under Obama’s towering debt
I hope the White House is paying attention to the latest annual Congressional Budget Office Long-Term Budget Outlook, which offers a truly frightening picture of the scale of America’s national debt, with huge implications for the country’s future prosperity. According to the non-partisan CBO, “the federal government has been recording the largest
