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Political Minutes: Eric Holder speaks at WLF
Thursday evening, as part of the World Leaders Forum, United States Attorney General Eric Holder came home to Columbia to speak under Low's rotunda....
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Political Minutes: Affirmative Action On And Off Campus
use the laws on affirmative action affect not only public universities but also any private school that takes public funding, such as Columbia. Bollinger, who had previously in a World Leaders Forum with Attorney General Eric Holder called the Court’s taking of the case “ominous,” repeated his apprehension. He also noted that the Court in its current makeup has no trouble overturning recent decisions, as it did in Citizens United. The individual...
Terror on Trial
...an court in lower Manhattan, due to a provision in the law. Citizens were worried about security and about the possibility for KSM to spout propaganda, much like Breivik is now doing. Earlier this month, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the detainees would be tried in a military commission at Guantánamo and that the death penalty would be used. It remains to be seen whether Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other detainees will plead guil...
As Dangerous as Crime Itself
...n is suffering at the hands of the NYPD. Another article I wrote goes into detail, so I’ll give you the short version here. Hayden has been videotaping police conduct in Harlem for 4 years — a right that Attorney General Eric Holder recently reaffirmed. Last year, two cops whom he’d previously videotaped stopped him, remarked, “We know you,” and illegally searched his car. They charged him with felony possession of two dangerous weapon, which car...
Missing Pages
...anti-Americanism in the world, especially in the Middle East. In order to avoid upsetting either side, recent history textbooks have toed an intermediate line, describing the 9/11 attacks themselves and then simply moving on. Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia, agrees that it is because of this “fear of controversy” that these books leave out important details of events like 9/11. “A lot of people wh...
Cuomo in Control
...ons directly to campaigns, the limit would be $10,300. The Daily News reported NYSUT could spend as much as $500,000 on Senator Joseph Addabbo’s re-election campaign, who is in a competitive race against Republican Councilman Eric Ulrich. NYSUT reportedly is also considering spending $250,000 to help the Democrats win the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Senator Jim Alessi. Monroe County Legislator Ted O’Brien is being heavily ou...
Reaching for the Stars
...f responsibilities and the transparency of the tasked agencies are fundamental to a speedy and complete investigative process. Second, Volcker argued that “the position of Chief Operating Officer (COO) should be created.” Its holder should be “granted direct access to the Security Council, with authority for planning and personnel practices that emphasize professional and administrative talent.” The secretary-general is a purely diplomatic and po...
Washington Can Learn from Nudists and Cherokees
...s moderate stances are necessary in order to be elected in Massachusetts, but that doesn’t change the facts. Brown is a reasonable Republican. As I write this, Republicans in Congress scheme ways to discredit Attorney General Holder, the White House preps various statements for the post-SCOTUS health care decision, all of which will attack/blame Republicans, while both parties lose sight of actually doing anything for the economy. Washington can...
Melting the Snowball Effect
...re nearly as much as you do. They’re busy at work (at least 91.8 percent of them), and don’t have time to obsess over the political minutia, or even macrotia (that is a word). To the average American, the names Obama, Romney, Holder, Walker, Bryson, etc. don’t pop off of the television set anymore. If the president wants to do anything more than win, though, if he wants to match the inspiration of his baby blue lawn signs, he better hope to chang...
Tax Black-Holes & Tax Loop-Holes
...year the IRS will enact the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). The legislation is a sort of declaration process for both individuals with assets in overseas accounts and foreign financial firms with American account holders. This will potentially raise $8.7 billion dollars in new tax revenue. Unfortunately, the problem of “offshoring wealth” seems to have no solution in sight. Multilateral institutions and global bank regulators have pu...
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