On Tuesday February 3rd, Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D. South Dakota) withdrew his nomination for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services after coming under much scrutiny over questions of unpaid taxes. He was not the first of President Obama’s nominees to encounter tax issues during the confirmation process. Treasury [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Equal Pay for Equal Work
February 3, 2009 – 12:24 am
President Obama signed his first bill into law last Thursday, approving the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, sending a clear message that issues of fair equality of opportunity will be important to his administration. Despite the passage of the Equal Pay Act more than 40 years ago, women receive, on average, 77 cents on [...]
Reaching All Corners
February 2, 2009 – 1:23 am
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/impact/
If only Somalia was unique in stature. Widely described as a “failed state” Somalia is representitive of a problem that President Obama will have to deal with as part of a balanced foreign policy. Many African states are in similar situations as Somalia: corrupt or non-existant governments, mass starvation, and the resurgances of diseases wiped [...]
New RNC Chair Elected
February 1, 2009 – 2:28 pm
Last week, the Republican National Committee elected its new chair. Sarah Palin? Not quite, although she did recently launch her new PAC.
The RNC elected Michael Steele, former Maryland Lt. Governor and U.S. Senate candidate in 2006.
While many pundits note that Michael Steele is an African American, in my opinion the ethnicity of Steele [...]
