Posted on April 29th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
I’m heading to the Boston area later today for a 3 days so that I can attend the inaugural event at The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT on Thursday, April 30.
I’ve been granted a press pass from The Center, so I will have a substantial piece on the event when I return from [...]
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Posted on April 28th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
The media and the blogosphere are all a buzz and a twitter over the big news today that Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania was switching to the Democratic Party. Specter who has been a Republican since 1966 said today in a statement that since his “election in 1980, as part of the Reagan Big Tent, [...]
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Posted on April 27th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
There are now 40 confirmed cases of the Swine Flu in the U.S. and more than 1600 cases in Mexico. Concern over the outbreak has “cast a shadow over the struggling global economy,” as the spread of Swine Flu “could harm trade and tourism and undermine businesses just as they begin to rally.”
John Nichols notes [...]
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Posted on April 27th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
President Barack Obama will reach the first 100 days milestone on Wednesday:
But what if, things had gone differently? What if, John McCain had been elected? Imagine… “Just Imagine: The First 100 Days of John McCain.”
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Posted on April 27th, 2009 by Berry Craig
What a difference a year makes.
When unions observed Workers Memorial Day on April 28, 2008, one of the most anti-union presidents in history was in the White House.
As this Workers Memorial Day approaches, we have a new president who was elected with overwhelming union support.
Workers Memorial Day is a time when unions hold special services [...]
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Posted on April 27th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
On Sunday, in the wake of 20 confirmed cases of Swine Flu, U.S. health officials declared a public health emergency and other “nations imposed travel bans or made plans to quarantine air travelers as confirmed cases also appeared in Mexico and Canada and suspect cases emerged elsewhere.”
The NY Times reports that the top “global flu experts” [...]
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Posted on April 26th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
On Saturday, Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared an emergency in Mexico in the wake of the country’s swine flu outbreak. The emergency declaration gives Calderon the ”powers to order quarantines and suspend public events.”
Dr. Margaret Chan, the director-general of the W.H.O., said on Saturday that the deadly swine flu virus outbreak in Mexico (and the U.S.) constitutes a [...]
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Posted on April 24th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
President Obama’s first months in the Oval Office have strengthened his “standing with the American public, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, giving him political capital for battles ahead.”
As his 100th day as president approaches next Wednesday, the survey shows Obama has not only maintained robust approval ratings but also bolstered the sense that he is a [...]
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Posted on April 24th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
On Thursday, Senators Chuck Schumer and Chris Dodd called on the Federal Reserve to “freeze interest rate hikes on consumer credit card balances,” just hours before a meeting between credit card companies and the White House.
Noting that the Fed has used its emergency powers multiple times since 2007 in the context of the financial crisis, the senators [...]
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Posted on April 23rd, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Move On has a powerful new ad “calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the use of torture during the Bush administration and even raising the specter of targeting former Vice President Dick Cheney.”
In related news, the WaPo reports in Thursday’s edition that “Condoleezza Rice, John D. Ashcroft and other top Bush administration officials [...]
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