U.S. Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Thomas J. Donohue is not known for mincing his words, so it’s no surprise to find some rather pointed suggestions in his recent letter to President Barack Obama and Congress concerning the urgent need to create new jobs: “Americans aren’t interested in empty promises or temporary, artificial government jobs that won’t last, but will add to the deficit.
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Osama bin Laden’s final letters reveal he was worried that al-Qaida had a marketing problem. The terrorist leader was thinking a lot about relabeling al-Qaida for a fresh start under a new name. He didn’t like that his organization’s full name, al-Qaida al-Jihad (The Base of Holy War) had become shortened to al-Qaida. He suggested a more religious title would help convince worldwide Muslims they really are in a holy war against America.
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Apparently President Obama can do no wrong in the eyes of Libyan leader Moamar Gadhafi. Despite initiating the no-fly zone in Libya, the embattled leader sent a rambling letter Wednesday to the president. He asked Obama to call off the NATO air strikes.
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Back when Facebook was scaring everybody with their new privacy policy, Senator Charles Schumer from New York wrote a stern letter to Mark Zuckerberg threatening the company with an FTC investigation.
The Facebook issue was brought to the Senator’s attention by his daughter Jessica.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said Wednesday he will not postpone for a third time the confirmation hearing for Berkeley School of Law Professor Goodwin Liu to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and it will take place on April 16.Republicans on Tuesday requested a third postponement because of the revelation that Liu omitted 117 items from the questionnaire he is required to complete for the panel.
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The Sunday letter “Bicyclists are dangerous,” suggested that police should be aggressively ticketing bicyclists, yet it failed to examine why bicyclists have increasingly become a danger. Bicycle commuting has increased dramatically. But there are no new bike lanes, so bicyclists are left to improvise — often forced into sidewalks or crosswalks.
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Investigation: The letter designating Supervisor Carmen Chu as acting mayor on the right was signed by a staffer. Newsom signed a different version before his departure, shown on the left, a spokesman said.
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Your Oct. 20 lead article about neighbor complaints delaying solar panel installation is surprising. In today’s world, when California leads the country at going green and reducing our reliance on oil-based energy sources, we have two individuals worried about solar panels not being “in keeping with the character of the neighborhood.”
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What went wrong with Bear Stearns, Lehman and AIG could not have happened without Congress repealing the Glass-Steagall Act. That “iron door” separating banking from investing was replaced with a shell game among insurance, currencies and hedge funds. The new “trading shops” (formerly banks) expected that “extreme negative events” might happen just once every 100 years.
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