Many charitable organizations have a June 30 fiscal year, so this is a good time to look forward to fiscal 2009. Budgets are being set, and the seeds of success or failure are being laid. What will the new fiscal year hold in store?
My expectation is that fiscal 2009 will be a very tough year […]
MCCAIN’S VICE-PRESIDENT?
Mitt Romney as running mate
Kathryn Jean Lopez
Special Guest Columnist
For Mitt Romney, the suspension of his campaign at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference two days after Super Tuesday marked the beginning of a new and promising campaign. As he ended his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, he staked for himself a position as […]
I like Ike and you should too.
This sentiment struck me after reading an April 30 article in the Washington Post. Walter Pincus reported on newly declassified information that shows President Eisenhower ruled out a proposal by senior Air Force officers to drop nuclear bombs against targets in Communist China in 1958.
The proposal to nuke China […]
News
Is Nixon THE One?
Rick Perlstein’s sprawling, rollicking book arrives hard on the heels of a contest of empathy-exhibitionism in which the two Democratic presidential candidates competed to see who could more ardently adore churchgoing, gun-owning, not-at-all-bitter working-class Pennsylvanians.
Guantanamo’s Long Shadow on U.S. Foreign Policy
WASHINGTON — When the Pentagon announced in March that Maj. Gen. Jay W. Hood would become the senior American officer based in Pakistan, it reflected the military’s aim to put a crisis-tested veteran in a critical job at a pivotal time in the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
Big TV’s Big Secret: Ignoring Pentagon’s Propaganda Program
Even with countless media outlets available these days, a Sunday New York Times cover story could always be counted on to send a jolt through the television news cycle. But apparently that’s no longer the case.
Mark Your Calendars: May 20 is Obama’s (Official) Victory Party
Not long after the polls close in the May 20 Kentucky and Oregon primaries, Barack Obama plans to declare victory in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Barack Works the House
In the great hunt for superdelegates, there’s no better place to look than the floor of the House, and Senator Barack Obama dove right into a sea of them on Thursday morning, shaking hands, clapping backs, doling out hugs and even doing a little curtsy before Representative John M. Spratt Jr. of South Carolina, the chairman of the Budget Committee.
Turn Out the Lights?
Very early this morning, after many voters had already gone to sleep, the conventional wisdom of the elite political pundit class that resides on television shifted hard, and possibly irretrievably, against Senator Hillary Clinton’s continued viability as a presidential candidate.
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