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Presidential Commissions: Gone and Often Forgotten
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- As presidential commissions go, the Oil Spill Commission's moment in the sun may have lasted longer than most. It convened its first session when the oil was still gushing in the Gulf of Mexico, then staged a series of hearings, enlivened by its sharp-spoken co-chairmen, that held the spotlight on its work. But with the release of the panel's final report, the show is over. In 60 days, the commission officially goes out of business. Its records will be trucked off to the National Archives in College Park, Md., where they will join the records of hundreds of other presidential ...
Opinion: 4 Good, and 4 Bad, Debt Panel Ideas
By not in system - AOL News((Nov. 11) -- Say this much for Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson: They understand that Washington's fiscal policy is putting us on a path to economic disaster. The co-chairmen of the president's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform know that, unless we want to follow the likes of Greece or France, we need to get to work. So Bowles and Simpson primed the pump for the commission on Wednesday by releasing their own report -- a mixed-bag plan to reduce spending, cut some taxes and raise others. No doubt this is meant to spur tough decisions by the commission, whose report is ...
Denver Voters Will Decide on Proposed E.T. Affairs Office
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(Oct. 14) -- Of all the ballot measures that are being voted on this election season, none may have more universal impact than Initiative 300 in Denver. Put it simply: If the measure is approved by the voters, Denver's mayor will have to select seven volunteers for a commission that will meet twice a year and gather the most compelling evidence regarding the existence of extraterrestrials and UFOs and put it on the city's website. Jeff Peckman Jeff Peckman is the man behind Initiative 300, a ballot measure that, if passed, will require the Denver City Council to create a commission dealing ...
Opinion: At the UN, Obama Should Speak Out for Religious Freedom
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(Sept. 22) -- President Barack Obama will be delivering an address on Thursday to the U.N. General Assembly and, as in previous years, it is almost certain that he will have to share the podium with a rogue's gallery of the world's most oppressive human rights and religious freedom abusers. President Obama has the ability and the standing abroad to leverage this opportunity by speaking forcefully and eloquently on behalf of the cause for universal human rights. Worst Violators of Religious Freedom China Iran Saudi Arabia Eritrea Nigeria North Korea Sudan Vietnam Burma Pakistan Uzbekistan ...
Data Shows Afghan Civilian Deaths Tick Up
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan (Aug. 8) -- Civilian war deaths in the first seven months of 2010 rose by 6 percent over the same period last year, Afghanistan's human rights commission said Sunday. The modest increase suggested that U.S. and NATO efforts to hold down civilian casualties were having some success. Also Sunday, the bodies of 10 members of a medical team - six Americans, two Afghans, one German and a Briton - were flown to Kabul from the northern province of Badakhshan, where they were gunned down three days ago at the end of a humanitarian mission. The Taliban claimed responsibility and ...
Former CIA Director Is Slack-Jawed
By Dave - Politics DailyJ Porter Goss slams Pelosi and others for recent mis-allocation of their own memory.washingtonpost.comToday, I am slack-jawed to read that members claim to have not understood that the techniques on which they were briefed were to actually be employed; or that specific techniques such as "waterboarding" were never mentioned. It must be hard for most Americans of common sense to imagine how a member of Congress can forget being told about the interrogations of Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. In that case, though, perhaps it is not amnesia but political expedience.Let me be clear. It ...
The Blood of the Martyrs
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailyThe U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has released its 2008 Annual Report, which lists "countries of particular concern" (or, put plainly, countries which stomp all over religious liberties). The offending countries on the list include: Burma (Myanmar), Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), Eritrea, Iran, Pakistan, People's Republic of China, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. Countries on the Commission's 2008 Watch List include: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Cuba, Egypt, Indonesia, and Nigeria. The hotly-debated decision ...
Commission Tells Edwards Height Does Matter
By Geoffrey Miller - AOL NewsCarl Edwards won at Dover a few weeks ago with a car that ran a little too low.NASCAR found it in post-race inspection and penalized the driver of the No. 99 Roush-Fenway Ford Fusion the standard 25 driver points for the infraction, though he was allowed to keep the win.Edwards and his team owner Jack Roush thought that the penalty was not only injust -- stock cars need more rear downforce on tracks like Dover, not less -- and also felt that it was overly harsh.Last week, they appealed the decision, claiming the penalty was too severe for a Chase driver because of different points standings ...
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