While Attorney General Eric Holder is pursuing possible criminal charges against CIA interrogators, Obama has quietly made a move to re-shuffle the detainee business. Obama has moved the CIA’s detainee operation to a new government agency called the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG). The unit will contain personnel from…
Honduras
This past week, the media has made a crack in its myopic coverage of Michael Jackson to give us a few peeks of the situation in Honduras, which is fast becoming another foreign policy test of the Obama administration. Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya was attempting to hold a national…
North Korea
Four months into his presidency, Barack Obama has met his first foreign policy crisis. North Korea has decided that they are going to take advantage of the opportunity to try and push around the new president and see what they can get out of him. In the past few weeks,…
Tiresome “Remaking”
I feel as if Obama thinks that his job is tantamount to a contractor hired to turnaround a firm. Only it seems this firm exists in la-la land and the contractor has presidential powers. Obama has stated adnausium that he desires to “change” and to “remake” America. It seems that…
Republicans finally advocating fiscal responsibility…
Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH), one-time Obama nominee for Commerce Secretary, wrote an excellent piece for the Washington Post that succinctly described Republican qualms about the proposed budget and their own alternative. Some highlights: “The president’s budget makes clear that a huge expansion of government is not just about today’s economic…
Do I Want Obama to Fail?
There’s been a lot of controversy in recent weeks over whether people opposed to Obama “want him to fail”. As someone who did not vote for Obama, I feel qualified to comment on this. First of all, I am an independent. In 2008 I voted for John McCain. Unlike most…