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In the Loop is away
September 10, 2010Al Kamen is away. In the Loop will resume when he returns.
Politicians behaving badly? Report them to The Loop!
September 10, 2010 In the spirit of the holiday travel season -- and in honor of Sen. Chuck Schumer 's churlish treatment of a flight attendant this week on the US Airways shuttle from New York (not to mention earlier Schumer highhandedness during his travels) -- we're inaugurating the LoopOnTheGo mailbox. This is...
Richard Armitage on Colin Powell, Condi Rice and Hillary Clinton
September 10, 2010The GOP's 11th Commandment -- "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican," popularly associated with Ronald Reagan's 1966 California gubernatorial campaign -- was never much honored in practice before its formal interment in New York's 23rd Congressional District election last month.
In the Loop: The TARP police are hiring
September 10, 2010Most everyone has blasted TARP, the $700 billion Troubled Assets Recovery Program, for doing everything for banking fat cats and their bonuses but nothing for Main Street or the working people hammered by the Great Recession.
A master class in White House gate-crashing
September 10, 2010A two-week run of spectacular press catapulted the meritless Tareq and Michaele Salahi to worldwide fame, but things have unfortunately settled down (once Tiger pushed them off center stage). They can only hope -- and it's by no means certain -- that their scheduled Jan. 20 testimony before the H...
In the Loop: Alberto Gonzales reflects on the Bush years
September 10, 2010 Keeping up with a perennial Loop Favorite . . . Alberto "Fredo" Gonzales, the former attorney general, is now contentedly ensconced in his poli-sci teaching gig at Texas Tech in Lubbock. Gonzales is one of about 20 people -- including former U.N. nuke inspector in chief Mohamed ElBaradei, Yao Min...
Obama, like Bush and Clinton, puts off embassy move to Jerusalem
September 10, 2010P resident Obama and his family did the traditional lighting of the White House Christmas tree Wednesday on the Ellipse. That same day he continued the more recent, lower-key tradition, begun by Bill Clinton and followed by George W. Bush , of approving a waiver every six months to legislation that...
In the Loop: Where are the female Obama appointees?
September 10, 2010President Obama was chastised a couple of months ago for his all-male basketball games and golf outings. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said at the time that "the point's well taken."
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September 10, 2010This month marks the 10th anniversary of the Clinton administration's cavalier handover of the Panama Canal -- leaving an alleged front for the Chinese Red Army in control of the strategic passage -- despite the strong misgivings of some top foreign policy experts.
In the Loop: Who should get Obama's Nobel Prize money?
September 10, 2010 President Obama is finally set to announce his Afghanistan plan. He's likely to call Tuesday night for what used to be called an escalation, and is now called a "surge," of about 30,000 troops in that mess of a country.
