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...election next year - held town halls and constituent meetings in 30 counties. While the sessions never got as raucous as they did in some other parts of the country, Grassley's constituents turned out by the thousands to tell him how little they thought of his efforts back in Washington. One sign in the small town of Adel read "Thank God Patrick Henry Did Not Compromise." Over the course of the recess, Grassley began sounding less like a potential Obama ally and more like the enemy army. When the Iowa Senator actually gave credence to the absurd notion that...
Gates has also been appointed a Senior Fellow for Global Higher Education at the Jamestown Project, a non-profit think tank based in Washington...
...again reminded this year, tanker flights are favorite action shot of television news shows - California fire officials have dubbed them "CNN drops" - and that makes them a favorite among politicians, as well. As the Times reported, U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter ignored the wishes of local officials and called Washington to demand aerial support during a 2003 fire in San Diego County. Six C-130's were dispatched over the next two days...
...Megrahi problem] that they lost sight of the likely domestic political response and the wider diplomatic context," including the predictable anger of the U.S. A Sept. 1 letter written by Richard LeBaron, deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in London, to authorities in Scotland withholds consent for Washington's "government-to-government" correspondence to be made public but reiterates "the United States Government's consistent and long-standing view that Mr. Megrahi should serve out his prison sentence in Scotland and the opposition of the United States to his transfer to Libya." U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder made...
...Gaddafi, the new friendship with Washington has been a smart investment that has paid off handsomely. About 45 Western oil companies now operate in Libya, investing billions each year in exploration and maintenance. "Quite a bit of damage occurred under sanctions because the oil reservoirs were not observed for many, many years," says Thamir Uqaili, a London-based independent oil consultant who spent years working in Libya. "They have caught up now in certain places...