By SALLY C. PIPES,Wall Street Journal Barack Obama will effect your level of Healthcare People are policy. And now that President-elect Barack Obama has fielded his team of Tom Daschle as secretary of Health and Human Services and Melody Barnes as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council,we [...] By Silla Brush,The Hill Farm Workers for Obama President-elect Obama will likely make several tough decisions on immigration policy during his first few months in office,even if he postpones wide-ranging reform until later in his first term. Obama will be under pressure from interest groups to review or [...] By The American Spectator Questions Remain about Obama and Hamas The Obama campaign,which has had problems in the past with its perceived —sometimes inaccurately —support of Palestinian interests over America’s best ally in the Middle East region,Israel,didn’t do itself any favors two weeks ago with pro-Israeli [...] By The Economist Roads,Bridges,Buildings,the names are changing The next president is already making his mark on America’s cities. DELMAR BOULEVARD is an arterial road running through some of the poorest and richest,and most racially divided,neighbourhoods of St Louis,Missouri. Some city aldermen are [...] By Frank Gaffney,The Washington Times Will Obama change? Presidents have discovered that the surest way to make history is by playing against type. The paradigmatic example occurred in 1972 when anti-communist Richard Nixon decided to go to Red China. Liberal Democrat Bill Clinton is remembered for helping to “end welfare [...] BY LYNN SWEET,Chicago Sun-Times Rahm has been out of the country to avoid questions If you did not know the back story,you would not fully appreciate Rep. Rahm Emanuel’s resignation letter to Gov. Blagojevich,who is the subject of impeachment proceedings in the Illinois House,for,among other reasons,[...] By Ray Long and Jeff Coen,Chicago Tribune Blagojevich is Railroaded to Protect Obama Blagojevich’s lawyer Ed Genson bemoans his inability to call witnesses. Heading toward a decision on the ultimate political sanction,members of a House impeachment committee Monday rejected complaints by Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s attorney that he was [...] By Patrick Buchanan Obama has his hands full with Hamas Unwilling to control its fighters,who fired scores of missiles into Israel at the end of their six-month ceasefire,Hamas gave Israel the provocation it needed to deliver a savage blow to the Palestinian enclave in Gaza. Saturday [...] By PHILIP ELLIOTT,Associated Press Obama struggles at Golf and Bowling President-elect Barack Obama thought he’d put the bowling jokes behind him. Not likely. On the golf course Monday,a woman waiting at the 18th green reminded Obama of his disastrous bowling during the presidential campaign. It was an [...] Obama has long admired Cuba By Jordan Allott &Daniel Allott,The American Spectator President-elect Barack Obama has pledged not to lift the U.S. trade embargo with Cuba until it releases all its political prisoners. Obama has also vowed to launch a review of the files of the detainees [...] | |
