There is new criticism of the Army’s high-profile effort to train mental toughness into soldiers so they can better handle the stress of repeated combat tours. This time, the critique comes from a group of psychologists who say the program appears to be scientific research without consent.
The sheer volume of news these past few weeks has been overwhelming–and, as Michael Crowley reports below and Bab Baer writes here–the situation in Pakistan, which I believe is the most dangerous in the world, has been deteriorating notably. The latest developments seem straight out of a spy novel. (In fact, David Ignatius’s forthcoming Bloodmoney, [...]
President Obama closes his eyes as first lady Michelle Obama speaks at the White House on April 12. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque) –President Obama will give his speech on long-term deficits at 1:35 pm today. In addition to revisiting some elements of Simpson-Bowles, Marc Ambinder reports Obama’s vision will be one of contrast with Paul Ryan’s plan [...]
In Washington these days, you’re nobody if you don’t have your own deficit-reduction plan. Paul Ryan has people talking about his conservative blueprint. Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson have an establishment-centrist take. The Democratic left has its own alternative. And a bipartisan group of six senators is at work on still another approach. Pretty soon [...]
Getting the government back to pre-Obama spending is a central tenet of the Republican budget agenda. The GOP’s proposals for 2011 and 2012 would put across-the-board domestic discretionary spending back at 2008 levels and Paul Ryan’s “Path” would freeze it there for five years. For the only two federal financial regulators subject to congressional appropriations, [...]
Did you hear about Donald Trump? He tied for first place in the CNN poll, after coming in second in the NBC/WSJ poll. He wrote a scathing letter to the New York Times, and another to Vanity Fair. He is considering running as an independent. He met with Mike Huckabee. He has a beef with [...]
Last October, Farooque Ahmed was arrested in a FBI terrorism sting. Working with operatives he believed to be members of al-Qaeda, Ahmed helped plot attacks on D.C. Metrorail stations by passing on information designed to cause the most casualties. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced Monday to 23 years in prison, with 50 years supervised [...]
Douglas Kmiec was an unlikely supporter of Barack Obama during the 2008 campaign, but a valuable one. A devout Catholic, he briefly served as director of the office of legal counsel in Reagan’s Justice Department and held a chaired professorship at the conservative Pepperdine Law School. His backing of Obama was rewarded by the president [...]
…its federal subsidy survives, notes my colleague James Poniewozik. Once again in Washington, sound and fury signifies…. not much.
