“Was it blunt? Yes. Would I apologize? No,” Hunt told the Star-Tribune. He said later: “If I had to do it again, would I sit and think about how to phrase my words more carefully? Probably.”
Justice Department and White House officials declined to provide much information about the memo or answer questions about it on the record.
It seems the best politicians are the ones who know how to play the camera. Oscar winning performances in front of millions can transcend them beyond leaders to celebrity status. Sadly, screen manipulation doesn’t transform into a good chief executive, or leader for our country.
According to the IG’s office, this included the costs for staffers to perform “volunteer activities, play games and watch movies during regular work hours.”
Their letter to the GAO asks for a study on how much money Planned Parenthood, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, and several other groups receive from the government. It also asks the GAO to identify the various federal sources of this money, how it was distributed, etc.
Obama and his fellow community organizers were furious. So furious, in fact, that they have replied by filing complaints with the authority that governs website domain addresses, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Once again, the Obama Administration is playing politics with National Security. Napolitano’s attendance at the White House briefing was the latest part of a White House effort to pressure Congress into passing a deal that would prevent the sequester.
This interview won’t endear Senator Cruz to his critics in the Republican Party, but he’s spot on. We need a few more just like him.
After leaving Britain Thompson consistently maintained that he had “never heard any allegations,” while at the BBC, relating to the abuses. But on Sunday the London Sunday Times reported on claims that Helen Boaden, the outgoing director of BBC News, alleges that she told Thompson about the Savile abuse allegations in a December 2011 conversation.
Good ‘ole Joe, the gift that keeps on giving. What planet does he live on anyway?