Clinton Book Has Criticism, Advice for Obama
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 6th, 2011 5:31 am by HL
Clinton Book Has Criticism, Advice for Obama
Anne Kornblut, Wash Post
President Obama and his Democratic allies made two key political missteps in recent years, according to former president Bill Clinton in a new book to be released Tuesday.First was not raising the federal debt ceiling in the first two years of the president’s term, when Democrats still had a majority in Congress, and then failing to devise an effective national campaign message during the midterm elections of 2010.
Yes, Unemployment Is Still a Crisis
Brad Plumer, Washington Post
Another month, another dreary jobs report from the Labor Department. The U.S. economy added just 80,000 jobs in October, which isn't enough to keep up with population growth, let alone get us back to full employment. Indeed, this marks the seventh straight month that the jobless rate hasn't nudged below 9 percent (it was at 9.1 percent last month). While there are a few bright spots in the report "” the numbers for August and September were revised upward by 200,000 jobs "” that still leaves vast battalions of unemployed workers sitting out…
God and Man at Yale Turns 60
Peter Berkowitz, RealClearPolitics
Yesterday the William F. Buckley Jr. Program, a fledgling student run organization at Yale University, held a one-day conference and gala dinner featuring distinguished conservatives"”including a keynote address by William Kristol and remarks by Henry Kissinger, James Buckley, Priscilla Buckley, and Christopher Buckley"”to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the publication of God and Man at Yale. This unusual happening suggests that much has changed at Yale since 1951 when the brash and brilliant twenty-five year old Buckley burst upon the national scene…