Presidential library donors would be named under bill
of most of its donors WASHINGTON — With jockeying over a future Obama presidential library between the president's birthplace of Hawaii and his adopted hometown of Chicago already underway, lawmakers...
View ArticleWickham: Obama should pardon Jack Johnson
presidents haven't always made the best use of their pardon power. The night before he left office in 2001, Clinton pardoned Marc Rich, a fugitive billionaire financier whose ex-wife made a sizable...
View ArticleFirst Thoughts: A make-or-break week on guns
led by Johnny Isakson (R-GA). The early word on this budget (it essentially reflects his last offer to House Speaker John Boehner from last December, with cuts to Social Security and Medicare) has been...
View ArticleWho foots the bill for presidential libraries?
who is working on plans for a library. When he ran for the 2008 Democratic nomination, Obama watched his rival Sen. Hillary Clinton during an NBC debate in New Hampshire having to field questions about...
View ArticleFirst Thoughts: Re-examining Bush
the joint use agreement between the National Archive and the George W. Bush Presidential Center on the campus of Southern Methodist University on April 24, 2013 in Dallas, Texas. *** Re-examining Bush...
View ArticleRe-examining Bush
Democratic wins after Herbert Hoover, and the three-straight Republican victories after Jimmy Carter. So who wins in 2016 (Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, the GOP nominee?) could tell you something about...
View ArticleThe trouble with presidential libraries
to a question. As the fight gets underway to claim the Obama Presidential Library – the University of Hawaii versus the University of Chicago – is the original intent of presidential libraries as...
View ArticleHolder plays dumb
increasingly blatant corruption, incompetence or both. Yet the man who first besmirched his reputation by advocating for Bill Clinton’s presidential pardon of the fugitive financier Marc Rich remains...
View ArticlePetrol price rigging inquiry contacts oil traders
Glencore and other big oil trading companies have been asked to provide information to the cross-border investigation into alleged petrol price rigging. There is no suggestion that these companies are...
View ArticleHow does Holder survive?
picked Holder for AG: “Holder was involved, passively or not, in just the sort of inside-the-Beltway influence peddling that Barack Obama was elected to end . . . could not say no to power.” Nothing...
View ArticleMorning Bits
in connection with his disgraceful participation, as Clinton deputy attorney general, in the corrupt pardon of Marc Rich on Clinton’s last day in office.” Read the whole thing. President Obama (Michael...
View ArticleHerhold: Eric Holder needs to go
as attorney general, Holder helped craft the legal rationale behind the Clinton administration's pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich. Holder's Early in his term as AG came the "Fast and Furious''...
View ArticleKids’ biggest problem
the keynote speech at the party’s convention and barely mentioned Mitt Romney. Just before the election, he invited President Obama to deep-blue New Jersey to see Hurricane Sandy destruction and...
View ArticleWhat Happened to Eric Holder?
Nineteen years ago this month, Eric Holder was having a very different spring in Washington. It wasn't cruel or grueling. Conservatives didn't want his scalp and liberals didn't think he was trampling...
View ArticleFirst Thoughts: Hillary fully steps out of Bill Clinton's shadow
as a result of rape “are very low.” A new DNC memo says Franks’ words are “echoing similar comments made last year by Missouri Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin.” And the Democratic Super PAC...
View ArticleOil traders diversify into food and metals in quest for profits
* Oil traders to seek grain storage, port capacity assets * Long-term bullish outlook for agriculture remains intact GENEVA/LONDON, June 17 (Reuters) - Energy trading houses are diversifying into food...
View ArticleSpecial Report: How Syria's Islamists govern with guile and guns
1 of 6. A fighter from Islamist Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra is seen in front of a burning vehicle, caused by what activists said were missiles fired by a Syrian Air Force fighter jet from forces...
View ArticleMartial arts actor Jim Kelly, best known for 'Enter the Dragon,' dies
Shain Gandee , one of the stars of the MTV reality show "Buckwild," was found dead with two other people in Kanawha County, West Virginia, on April 1. He was 21. Music producer and innovator Phil...
View ArticleJames Comey is a bad choice for FBI
— and Comey, having virtually committed an act of civil disobedience, became something of a Washington legend. He is now President Obama’s choice to head up the FBI. I applaud him with one hand. Why...
View ArticleMy encounters with Marc Rich
the money offshore to dodge $48 million in taxes. Rich unwisely refused to cooperate with the investigation, claiming that Marc Rich AG was a Swiss company and shielded from American laws, even though...
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