Posts Tagged ‘ foreign policy ’

It’s not marriage, but some say it’s marriage-like. There will be a waiting period and a fee, but no ceremony is needed. In a couple of weeks, same-sex couples in Wisconsin will be allowed to declare domestic partnerships and take advantage of some of the rights and benefits extended to married couples. County clerks around the...
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HSPI Releases Task Force Report on the Future of the Homeland Security Council. The report is the product of a bipartisan Task Force composed of former senior federal officials, practitioners at the state and local levels, and subject matter experts in the area of homeland security policymaking. Co-chaired by HSPI Director Frank Cilluffo and...
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Log onto YouTube and you can watch dozens of videos of planes crashing into the towers on 9/11 and victims leaping to their deaths. Browse Amazon for one of the 87 DVDs about Hurricane Katrina. Or tune into the Discovery Channel’s new show, “Destroyed in Seconds.” “Images of disaster haunt the American national consciousness and...
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Following are excerpts of President Obama’s address to the joint session of Congress: “While our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken; though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge...
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Obama’s campaign was about change. Some changes will take more than policy, political hand-holding, but some are quite simple.  It is about time the United States has a President that appreciates and understand technology.  I personally think that Obama should have put up a fight to keep his Blackberry . . . Four years is...
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