St. Petersburg The Inspector General of the US Justice Department issued a report after a lengthy (and doubtlessly dilatory) investigation indicating that there was severe misconduct and violation of federal Civil Service laws in the hiring process for protected, non-political positions. The misconduct ran from implicit, and unwarranted, involvement at the White House down …
Category: Personal Writings
Tambourine and Fan
New Orleans Bleary eyed from an 18-hour trip to Chicago, I opened the Times-Picayune early and glancing at the Metro section saw that a conservative, Republican-leaning, New Orleans City Councilwoman was trying to cut off funding to someone because of what she was saying was a “racist threat.” Something like that attracts the …
India Shift
Chicago Prime Minister Singh took a big political chance on a confidence vote, essentially substituting the left parties that formed with his Congress Party, the UPA coalition, with a collection of right parties, sufficiently to win the right to continue bargaining a treaty for nuclear assistance from the USA. Had he lost the vote, …