March 2011
244 posts
Obama secretly accepts transparency award
After canceling a scheduled appearance to accept an award from transparency advocates during Sunshine Week earlier this month, President Obama finally accepted the award this week — without letting anyone know.
One of my better headlines.
Play Ball! Two members of Georgia's delegation to hold fundraiser at Today's Nats-Braves Game →
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But who will really win? Perhaps the better question is if the game will actually be played in today’s weather.
Qadaffi Must Go, Members of Congress of Both Parties Say in Congressional Insiders Poll →
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A solid majority of Members of Congress in both parties say that it is not an acceptable outcome for Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi to remain in power once U.S. military operations that have struck at his regime are concluded, according to this week’s National Journal Congressional Insiders Poll.
Trivia Time!
What member of Congress was head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission during the Carter Administration?
Update, 10:22 a.m.: kyledaley is correct: Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C.
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First presidential debate postponed due to lack of candidates
- thenLast Year, Politico and NBC News announced plans to host a Republican presidential debate on May 2nd of this year. It was to be the first debate of election season.
- nowBecause so few candidates have declared their candidacy, NBC and Politico are postponing the debate until September. Now, Fox’s May 5th debate will be the first. source
TIME: One out of ten graves in Arlington National Cemetery are believed to be marked with the wrong headstone. →
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Time:
The Army has known for months that it may have a massive case of mistaken identity on its hands — but has been reluctant either to admit it or to learn exactly how widespread the burial errors are. Through the Freedom of Information Act, TIME obtained the raw transcripts of interviews that cemetery workers gave in 2009 and 2010 to the inspector general. In contrast to the tepid report the IG released last June, the transcripts show how workers repeatedly found unidentified remains while digging in what were supposed to be empty graves. “We went into a grave site, which we assumed was empty,” one worker recalls. “Dig down …and, uh … whoops! Another coffin.” Another worker guessed that “one time out of 10,” a headstone at Arlington sits above the wrong grave.
Trivia Time!
What former governor once ran a 100-mile race partly backward after pulling a muscle?
Update: Gary E. Johnson is correct!
TARP Inspector General Blasts Program →
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On his last day as inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Neil Barofsky cedes his position with a full-throatedcritique of the unpopular program’s efficacy in a New York Times op-ed.
