The Goal Shifts in Libya
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 28th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
The Goal Shifts in Libya
Eric Schmitt & David Sanger, New York Times
President Obama has subtly shifted Washington’s public explanation of its goals in Libya, declaring now that he wants to assure the Libyan people are “finally free of 40 years of tyranny” at the hands of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, after first stating he wanted to protect civilians from massacres.Abandoned tanks are scavenged for parts for rebels at a Libyan Army base in Ajdabiya that was destroyed by NATO airstrikes.
What Texas Can Teach Us
Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
If you want to see a place where the private sector in America has been booming and generating jobs, you should look at Texas. That’s my take from these absolutely fascinating numbers compiled from Bureau of Labor Statistics figures by The Business Journals, tracking the increase or decrease in private sector jobs in the ten years between April 2001 and April 2011. Any precise ten-year period is somewhat arbitrary, of course, since the two endpoints can fall at different points in the business cycle, and so picking different starting and end points will produce…
Where Are the Obama Scandals?
Brendan Nyhan, UVA Center for Politics
One of the least remarked upon aspects of the Obama presidency has been the lack of scandals. Since Watergate, presidential and executive branch scandal has been an inescapable feature of the American presidency, but the current administration has not yet suffered a major scandal, which I define as a widespread elite perception of wrongdoing. What happened, and what are the odds that the administration’s streak will continue?Obama has been extremely fortunate: My research on presidential scandals shows that few presidents avoid scandal for as long as he has. In the 1977-2008 period,…
