Sunday talk-show guests: Jan. 31, 2010
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 31st, 2010 5:35 am by HL
Sunday talk-show guests: Jan. 31, 2010
Guests to be interviewed Sunday on major television talk shows:
U.S. sells weapons to Taiwan, angering China
The Obama administration announced the sale Friday of $6 billion worth of Patriot anti-missile systems, helicopters, mine-sweeping ships and communications equipment to Taiwan in a long-expected move that sparked an angry protest from China.
Henry Paulson’s book offers a glimpse inside the economic crisis
The Washington memoir, typically published after a calamitous event or the end of a political campaign, often brings a nugget or two of news. But that’s a tall order for Henry M. Paulson Jr.’s “On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System,” as many authors have…
John Edwards’s denial of baby was final straw, Andrew Young writes
His marriage was in tatters. His presidential campaign had ended with a primary loss in his birth state of South Carolina. But even with less to lose than he once had, John Edwards had to be hectored into calling his former mistress after the birth of their daughter on Feb. 27, 2008, former aide …
No sanctions for Bush lawyers who approved waterboarding, report will say
Bush administration lawyers who paved the way for sleep deprivation and waterboarding of terrorism suspects exercised poor judgment but will not be referred to authorities for possible sanctions, according to a forthcoming ethics report, a legal source confirmed.
