Newswire: Obama administration
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- Dan Schank of Ode Magazine linked first on March 15, 2010 at 8:39PM EDT
- Dan said: Ten charities will share the $1.4 million received by U.S. president Barack Obama for last year's Nobel Peace Prize. They include educational organizations like the American Indian College Fund, the Appalachian Leadership and Education Foundation and the United Negro College Fund. Fisher House, which provides housing for the families of injured veterans, will receive the largest portion, followed by the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, created in the wake of the recent earthquake.
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- John Dunlevy of Chicago Reader linked first on March 14, 2010 at 11:46AM EDT
- John said: "'It was an insult, but that's not the most important thing,' [David] Axelrod added, saying that the move was disruptive to upcoming proximity talks with the Palestinians and that the approval during Biden's visit 'seemed calculated to undermine that, and that was - that was distressing to everyone who is promoting the idea of peace and security in the region.'"
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- John Dunlevy of Chicago Reader linked first on March 11, 2010 at 5:36PM EST
- John said: "But one of the basic rules of diplomacy is that American presidents never publicly insist on something they aren’t sure of getting — at least not without a backup plan. By the time Mr. Netanyahu finally acceded to a 10-month partial halt that exempted Jerusalem, the Palestinians felt so burned that the peace effort collapsed."
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- John Dunlevy of Chicago Reader linked first on March 9, 2010 at 6:53PM EST
- John said: "The profit, for the hard right, is political. It mines an emotional vein along a relatively small but potent segment of the Israeli electorate, which holds that to insult Israel's indispensible ally is to assert the Jewish state's independence."
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- Dan Schank of Ode Magazine linked first on March 1, 2010 at 11:11PM EST
- Dan said: Environmentalist Bill McKibben strikes back at the bad science, crooked politics and corporate funding that fuels the current skepticism about climate change: "The great irony is that the climate skeptics have prospered by insisting that their opponents are radicals. In fact, those who work to prevent global warming are deeply conservative, insistent that we should leave the world in something like the shape we found it. We want our kids to know the world we knew. Here’s the definition of radical: doubling the carbon content of the atmosphere because you’re not completely convinced it will be a disaster. We want to remove every possible doubt before we convict in the courtroom, because an innocent man in a jail cell is a scandal, but outside of it we should act more conservatively."
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- Dan Schank of Ode Magazine linked first on February 24, 2010 at 10:14PM EST
- Dan said: No, this is not another lament for the public option (necessary as it may be!) - we're referring to the re-authorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. According to the Obama Administration, this will “modernize the Indian health care system and improve health care for 1.9 million American Indians and Alaska Natives.”
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- Kaitlin Flanigan of Ethos, Eugene Weekly linked first on February 21, 2010 at 11:00PM EST
- Kaitlin said: No Child Left Behind is still damaging America; not just it's education system, but it's prospects of competing in a global economy that we have ironically been a superpower in.
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- John Dunlevy of Chicago Reader linked first on February 21, 2010 at 12:33PM EST
- John said: "Even as the American economy shows tentative signs of a rebound, the human toll of the recession continues to mount, with millions of Americans remaining out of work, out of savings and nearing the end of their unemployment benefits."
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