AS MARGARET THATCHER SAID, "...ask a woman" President Obama appointed veteran U.S. Secret Service official Julia Pierson as the first female director in the agency's 148-year history.
After weeks of speculation, the White House announced on Thursday that it will release its budget on April 10, two months later than required by law. OBAMA STARTS COMMISSION ON ELECTION REFORM Following up on his State of the Union promise, the president on Thursday signed an executive order creating...
Politico writes, “President Barack Obama signed into law the continuing resolution on Tuesday that will fund the government through the end of the fiscal year. The hybrid spending bill also included full-year appropriations for DoD, as well as funding for the controversial MEADS missile-defense program."
The Fix writes, “We won’t know until late June or maybe even early July how the Supreme Court will decide on California’s Proposition 8 or the federal Defense of Marriage Act. And, as we learned with President Obama’s health care law, making predictions based on oral arguments is never a...
MARCH 29th, 1973 “Today marks the 40th anniversary of the last combat troops leaving Vietnam. They were returning to an America so angered by the ongoing war that soldiers were advised to change into civilian clothes on their flights home," The New York Times reports. "Although the end of the...
"Beware the Ides of March" - William Shakespeare For those of you who keep track of such things, if Julius Caesar had heeded the soothsayer, the “Ides (or middle of the month) of March” would have passed into forgotten Roman history. And no one would know the phrase “Et tu,...
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