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The JFK-UFO Connection: Bogus Documents or Unanswered Questions?
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsDo you like a good UFO detective story? Well, here's one for you. And it's ongoing, so we don't yet know the ending. It involves President John F. Kennedy's interest in UFOs shortly before his death and an allegation that he may have angered officials in his administration when he asked for information on the subject. Recently, the FBI opened a new website, "The Vault," that lets you view a variety of documents, including those regarding UFOs. I looked into one document that appears to include a phony UFO story and mentioned how important it is to be extremely careful when looking at UFO ...
A Valentine's Day Tribute to the Power of Love in Politics
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyWe are so often reminded of salacious sexual affairs in politics, but on Valentine's Day, perhaps we can spare a few moments to celebrate love? This should not be a foreign concept to us, and yet the contribution that love makes to keeping the ship of state afloat is too often ignored. Anyone who watched HBO's "John Adams" knows of the wonderful love affair between our second president and his wife, Abigail. If you have not seen it -- or read of this great American partnership between a man and a woman -- today is a good time to do so. Abigail was not only the devoted wife and mother of two ...
Would It Be Fair to Blame Obama for 'Losing Egypt'?
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyAs David Corn has noted, it appears we could see some conservatives blame President Obama for "losing Egypt" if things go badly in that embattled nation, just as others blamed Harry Truman for losing China, and many blamed Jimmy Carter for losing Iran. Such criticism will be easy to lodge but, at this moment, patently unfair. The truth is, Obama is between a rock and a hard place diplomatically and politically. First, the policy: Obama cannot publicly back Hosni Mubarak. The Egyptian leader is obviously a dictator, and perhaps on his last legs. Supporting Mubarak would mean opposing an ...
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 ...
The Underpaid Robert Gibbs and Washington's Sense of Entitlement
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyWith the capital awash in star-spangled sentiment this week, it seems appropriate to recall a patriotic parable so dangerous that it undermines the governing ethos of both Democrats and Republicans in Washington. Leaving office in 1953, as biographer David McCullough writes, Harry Truman "traveled home from Washington unprotected by Secret Service agents ... He had come home without salary or pension. He had no income or support from the federal government other than his Army pension of $112.56 a month ... Truman had been forced to take out a loan at the National Bank in Washington in his ...
Darrell Issa, House Oversight Chief, Could Do Well by Doing Good
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyRep. Darrell Issa, the incoming leader of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has generated much attention and speculation lately about his effort to hunt down "job killing" federal regulations. While Democrats are hoping to cast the California Republican as a hyperpartisan committee chairman set on politically motivated "witch hunts," Issa could surprise them. He is well positioned to do more than generate publicity; he could reveal real examples of waste and malfeasance. Based on Issa's comments last October -- when he said President Obama "has been one of the most ...
End of Military Gay Ban Is Pivotal Moment in History
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 18) -- The Senate's 65-31 vote to end the ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military was more than historic. It was a long time coming. But for the men and women whose lives and careers were touched for so many years by the ban, it was mostly personal. For Grethe Cammermeyer, the Vietnam combat nurse who came out as a lesbian in 1989 and whose struggle to stay in the military made her famous, the Senate vote brought tears. It's "the relief of finally seeing that we can serve with dignity and with integrity and that people no longer have to lie," she said. For ...
Mark Twain, Tom Friedman, and Quotations Too Good to Be Correctly Attributed
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyOne of the hazards of fact-checking others -- or dressing down politicians who peddle preposterously bogus material -- is spreading your own misinformation while doing so. This was the booby trap Thomas L. Friedman and the New York Times set for themselves Tuesday in a column headlined, unfortunately, "Too Good to Check." I yield to no one in my admiration for Friedman, with whom I covered the White House in the Clinton years and later interviewed. As far as I know, I'm the only one who ever put forward Tom's name for consideration of the Nobel Peace Prize -- my thought being that he hardly ...
Study: Most American Troops Wouldn't Object to Serving Alongside Gays
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 29) -- Leaked results from the Pentagon's Working Group Study on "don't ask, don't tell" indicate that most American troops would not object to serving alongside gays. "The findings are that for most soldiers, and this wasn't the sum total of all soldiers, it wasn't that big of a deal ...the majority -- the number one answer, first answer was 'I don't care.' That's significant," said NBC News' Richard Engel. Engel continued: Most common, number one. Number two was, 'I would deal directly with the person involved.' So when you put the two of those together, it is the majority. Now, ...
Can Democrats Pull Off a 'Dewey Defeats Truman' Feat? Not Likely, Polls Say
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyFacing grim news in one major national poll after another, some Democrats may be hoping for a "Dewey Defeats Truman" moment. That was the headline in 150,000 copies of the Chicago Daily Tribune on election night in 1948 after a campaign in which a series of polls showed New York's Republican governor, Tom Dewey, way ahead of incumbent President Harry Truman. Now, the Pew Research Center joins the queue of major surveys showing the Republicans headed for a big day on Nov. 2. While the unexpected could happen in a year of surprises, it is a lot less likely that today's pollsters are repeating ...
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