March 9th, 2010
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In a recent appearance at the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia he turned a question about his retirement plans into an opportunity to deny he has political ambitions. An audience member asked if he planned to write a book when he left the Army. He responded by saying hed feared the politics question.
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March 8th, 2010
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Sen. Lindsey Graham says that if the president agrees to try alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four accused henchmen in military tribunals, he will press fellow Republicans to vote to close the Guantanamo Bay prison.
Graham, interviewed Sunday on CBS “Face the Nation,” says reversing Attorney General Eric Holders plan to [...]
February 23rd, 2010
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Leading the effort are the Kansas City Feds Thomas Hoenig, the longest-serving policy maker, and Jeffrey Lacker of Richmond, chairman of the Feds Conference of Presidents, said officials with knowledge of the deliberations. In an opening salvo, Hoenig sent a letter Feb. 19 to 14 senators saying proposed laws in the Senate wouldnt improve financial [...]
February 21st, 2010
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Haig was a four-star Army general who served as a senior adviser to three presidents and had presidential ambitions of his own. He died early in the day at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore of complications from an infection, his family said. He was surrounded by his family, according to two of his children, Alexander [...]
February 21st, 2010
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He died about 1:30 a.m. yesterday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, hospital spokeswoman Maryalice Yakutchik said in a telephone interview. The cause of death was complications associated with an infection, the Associated Press said, citing the Haig family.
Haig straddled the [...]
February 10th, 2010
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Childhood obesity has been on the rise in recent decades, with 17 percent of children considered obese and about one in three of them overweight.
Which means Mrs. Obama has her work cut out for her, much as Eisenhower did when he created the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports in 1956. The presidents who [...]
January 13th, 2010
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Advocates for bereaved military families say soldiers like Williams deserve better. Theyre asking President Barack Obama to send condolence letters to the next of kin of troops who die under a variety of circumstances not directly related to the war.
“Every military family pays a price when a loved one serves in the military,” Bonnie Carroll, [...]
January 6th, 2010
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At the same time, he once again reaffirmed his intent to close the prison at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.
The attempted terror attack on a jet arriving in Detroit has heightened concerns about Yemen, because the suspected would-be bomber, a 23-year-old Nigerian passenger, claimed to be acting on instructions from al-Qaida operatives in Yemen.
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December 21st, 2009
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The accord, which pushes off signing a treaty for at least a year, is “a first step,” Obama said yesterday before leaving Copenhagen, where he spent 14 hours cobbling together the agreement in meetings with world leaders, and addressing 8,000 envoys from 193 nations.
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December 4th, 2009
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The justices on Dec. 7 will consider a challenge to one of the laws central features: creation of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board as the auditing industrys watchdog. A Nevada accounting firm and a small-government advocacy group say the board lacks the presidential control that the Constitution requires for executive branch agencies. [...]