On a quick read, the opinion appears to be significant for its extension of some OLC precedents and its (implicit) contraction of other OLC (and DOJ) precedents...
If the President wants to reduce the impact of the usual petty Washington politics, the recipe is quite simple. Treat with respect those who disagree with you...
...[A]ccording to a study Matthew Chingos and I just completed, teachers get better in the first few years of teaching, and then their performance slips in later years...
China has largely honored its promises to Hong Kong, spelled out in Hong Kong’s Basic Law, the territory’s mini-constitution, since it resumed sovereignty over the former British Crown colony on July 1, 1997...
by Kori Schakevia Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Imagine the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testifying that if defense funding were reduced, seven hundred thousand people in Libya would die, and tens of millions elsewhere in the world. It would be considered fear-mongering of the most repulsive kind...
...[A] simple way to look at the budget debate which the country faces in the months ahead (once the budget for 2011 is settled) is whether to remove or lock-in that binge...
