A valley on Kauai in Hawaii. From Newsweek.
UP-FRONT EDUCATION NUGGET!!
Students Pick 2010's Top Colleges from the Huffington Post
"Over the past 12 months, we asked more than 30,000 students across America to weigh in and tell us their stories. What is it actually like on your campus? Which schools have the most intellectual student bodies? Where do students feel safe?"
CMU is NUMBER ONE!!! Here's an excerpt: "The students at Carnegie Mellon, in Pittsburgh, PA, don’t beat around the bush: “Here is CMU's big selling point: the academics. They are great.” The approximately 6,000 undergrads at this Pittsburgh, PA school won’t stop raving about their “brilliant” professors who go out of their way to “know who you are,” and the “truly intellectual environment” this creates. There’s something else it also creates: “A workload that is not to be taken lightly.” “We’re forced into late night work/study sessions every other day,” said one."
Israel Seeks Release of Spy in Exchange for Extending Settlement Freeze from the Guardian [of the UK]
"Binyamin Netanyahu hopes release of spy will appease right wing but US intelligence likely to oppose the deal."
Bibi Effusively Praises Obama, Clinton in Call with Jewish Leaders (Laura Rozen) from Politico
"Netanyahu opened his remarks by speaking very positively about President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He also said positive things about Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, describing him as a real partner for peace. "
The Obama Administration's 'Pipe Dreams' (Ezra Klein) from the Washington Post
"Barney Frank once told her that getting a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was a "pipe dream." I think some people will see that as a mark against Frank, but he was right, at least judging by Washington's record over the previous 20 or 30 years. In fact, a lot of the Obama administration's accomplishments were pipe dreams."
A Lonely Success: Don't Forget that the Bailouts Worked (Fareed Zakaria) from Newsweek
"Consider the facts. After the fall of Lehman, credit froze in the U.S. economy. Banks stopped lending to anyone, even Fortune 500 companies with gold-plated credit. People couldn’t get consumer and car loans at any price, businesses couldn’t get short-term loans to meet payroll. Private-sector borrowing—the lifeblood of modern economies—fell from 15 percent of GDP in late 2007 to minus 1 percent of GDP in late 2008."
Vatican's $30 Million Money Scandal from the Associated Press
"Italian authorities seized euro23 million ($30 million) from a Vatican bank account Tuesday and said they have begun investigating top officials of the Vatican bank in connection with a money-laundering probe."
What is going on over there?!
President Obama Hints at High-Level Changes from the Wall Street Journal
"President Barack Obama raised the prospect of changes to his economic team Monday, saying his over-worked staffers were "going to have a whole range of decisions about family that'll factor into" their career decisions."
Long overdue in my view -- although I am not yet convinced that his economic team should be the ones to take the fall. I hate to say it (because I like his low-key approach and personality) but David Axelrod and others in Obama's political shop are the problem area. Their messaging has been DREADFUL since the summer of last year.
Law Professor's Blog Post Sparks Controversy Over Why the Rich Don't Feel 'Rich' from the Huffington Post
"In response to Obama's proposed tax hike for people making more than $250,000 a year, Henderson writes, ironically, "that makes me super rich." He goes on, for nine paragraphs, to explain why he actually isn't rich, finally extending an invitation to Obama to "judge for himself whether the Hendersons are as rich as he thinks.""
This debate is really interesting. The Huffington post article has some of the highlights.
What 'Republican Establishment' is the Tea Party Rattling? (Dana Milbank) from the Washington Post
"Sorry to interrupt the anti-establishment violence, but could we pause long enough to ask a question: What is this "Republican establishment" of which you speak?"
GOP Has Tough Road to Win House from Politico
"For the past month, most of the national press has been uncritically swallowing a steady diet of Republican propaganda: The race for the House is over; the Republicans have already won.
As someone who has been involved in congressional politics for more than 30 years and served as Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman for the 1996 and 1998 cycles, I questioned this. …Even if everything breaks for the GOP, short of a total national blowout, they would have to win all the seats identified to get to the magic number of 43."
Poll Watch - Hope for the Dems? (Simon Rosenberg) from NDN
"Both the Real Clear Politics Congressional Generic average and the new Gallup track show similar national trend lines - Dems gaining ground, GOP dropping. Similarly, the Gallup track has Obama's approval rating improving by 10 net percentage points in the past month, from 42/51 to 47/46 (RCP has shown movement despite 2 clear outlier Rasmussen and AP
polls)"
The Tea-Party Tempest (John Heilemann) from New York Magazine
"All this sound and fury signifies a lot of problems for Republicans like John Boehner and Mitt Romney next year."
Watchdog: Christine O'Donnell "Clearly a Criminal" from CBS News
""Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, today filed a pair of complaints concerning Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell's use of more than $20,000 in campaign funds for personal expenses. "Christine O'Donnell is clearly a criminal, and like any crook she should be prosecuted," CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan said."
WOW! It's rare you see a mainstream outfit like CREW come out with statements this inflammatory. Them's fighting' words!! O'Donnell's transgressions have to be pretty egregious and naked for them to say this.
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