(hat tip coberly)

rdan WAPO reports on Guantanamo: President Obama’s plans to expeditiously determine the fates of about 245 terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and quickly close the military prison there were set back last week when incoming legal and national security officials — barred until the inauguration from examining classified material on the detainees — […]

rdan Steve Bennen notes in the Washington Monthly: BOEHNER…. In the first weekly Republican radio address under the new administration, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) touted the GOP’s vision for an economic recovery. “Our plan is rooted in the philosophy that we cannot borrow and spend our way back to prosperity,” Boehner stated. The […]

rdanPresident Obama’s first weekly address and video available to peruse.

cross posted from STR Health Care Think Tank Tom Daschle’s health care book – Part I Senator (retired) Tom Daschle, new Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (and health care czar!?) wrote a book in 2008 about the health care system (before he knew about this position I believe). Given Daschle’s major […]

rdan As the Obama administration issues executive orders and eventually implements policies, we have an obligation to watch how policies mature and how they are actually implemented. As cactus has noted with an old Russian proverb, “Trust, but verify.” Probably a good way to start this year 2009 overall. And the executive branch is only […]

rdan … Angry Bear (2,447 links) is the product of a half dozen Ph.D economists, an historian, and financial professionals. The writers provide individual perspectives on broad sectors of the economy based on their unique training. They look at topics as varied as worldwide trade and industrial production and US government programs and regulations like […]

rdan Motherjones has a note on the new Whitehouse website. I point out some additional information of a new contract with America. An off-line Obama isn’t just bad for Barack. It’s bad for all of us. The president’s ability to reach outside his inner circle gives him access to fresh ideas and constructive critics; it […]

by cactus The Most Unpleasant Post I’ll Ever Write… and It Is About World Peace I really don’t like this post. I don’t like what I wrote in it. Unfortunately, it seems accurate to me. So here goes… Saudi Arabia has no troubles with Zoroastrians, Christians, Jews, or Shia Muslims. The Zoroastrians, Christians, and Jews […]