Posts Tagged ‘politics’
Politics of defense cuts: emphasize the positive (AP)
AP – The Pentagon is preparing to tighten its belt, but with an election-year battle looming in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta wants to stress the positive: Parts of the budget devoted to reshaping the military to fit a new global strategy will actually get fatter, he says.
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Readers debate tuition hikes, presidential politics and the Mets
Manhattan: Re Your Dec. 5 editorial (“Fair deal at CUNY”) supporting the tuition hike at City University institutions: This is a fair deal. Kudos to former CUNY trustee Herman Badillo, Chairman Benno Schmidt and Chancellor Matthew Goldstein for their efforts at increasing standards at the CUNY colleges.
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Gun issue represents tough politics for Obama (AP)
AP – They are fuzzy about some issues but the Republican presidential candidates leave little doubt about where they stand on gun rights.
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Chu: Solyndra loan based on merits, not politics (AP)
AP – An unapologetic Energy Secretary Steven Chu defended a half-billion-dollar federal loan to a solar-panel manufacturer that went belly up, even as he told a House committee Thursday he was unaware of dozens of key details that led to the debacle over Solyndra Inc.
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Lupica: Palin is the Kardashian of politics
Sarah Palin’s truest talents involve looking good and being famous. Somehow, though, in the hysterical world of modern media coverage, that is enough for her to be treated like some factor in the upcoming election, when she is the opposite of that.
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What’s next in Libya key to US politics, economy (AP)
AP – The dramatic advance of Libyan rebels over the forces of longtime strongman Moammar Gadhafi offers vindication, at least for now, for President Barack Obama’s decision to refrain from using U.S. troops on Libyan soil and to let NATO take the lead in degrading Gadhafi’s military power. But there are still hazards for the White House.
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Obama rips Congress for playing partisan politics
President Obama ripped his opponents in Congress for putting politics ahead of patriotism Thursday and called the recent disastrous debt ceiling fight “the worst kind of partisanship.”
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