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...embattled Morris Brown College will take what it can get. Dimes and quarters trickled into the school's coffers last week as part of an outpouring of community and alumni generosity that allowed the college to appease its debt collectors and keep its doors open - at least for another month...
Michael Steele assumed the Republican party chairmanship barely a month ago, promising vast changes to help the GOP successfully compete in 21st century America. One of his first forays in that quest occurred Friday night, when Steele came to DuPage County, an affluent Chicago suburb of nearly one million, where the largely Republican establishment is battling an increasingly potent Democratic Party. (In November, the Dems took 3 of 18 seats on the county board, the highest in decades in the Republican stronghold...
...been a busy few weeks for Steele. Earlier this month, he drew headlines over a former aide's allegations about questionable spending of funds for a failed U.S. Senate campaign. Then, in a Washington Times interview published Thursday, he said, "We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-suburban hip-hop settings." It's hard to imagine that the party of Lincoln could somehow include Lil' Wayne and Lil' Kim - and the hip-hop strategy was seen by some as patronizing...
...State of the Wars During his first month in office, the domestic economy dominated the agenda such that Obama mostly avoided discussing the still troubling national-security situation. He announced the dispatch of 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan by press release. He has avoided any direct comment on the continued concern that Iran is close to developing its first nuclear weapon. The war in Iraq, which has thus far claimed the lives of 13 soldiers in February, has been put under review - but the President has resisted specific comments about plans to withdraw troops. Meanwhile, the military has continued...
...Meanwhile, everyone with a stake in regulatory law will be watching closely to see what develops from a request that the Obama White House put out last month to the heads of federal agencies, asking for their ideas on how to revise both the government rulemaking process and the way OIRA reviews those rules. For one thing, it appears to mean that the new Administration will be looking for ways to apply cost-benefit analysis differently. The Institute for Policy Integrity, a progressive group headed by Livermore at New York University School of Law, has issued a list of proposed...