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» At U.N., Obama aims for more expansive anti-ISIS coalition
One day after a new coalition of Arab allies helped President Obama launch a war in Syria that he had long avoided, he faces the far more arduous task of convincing them to sustain it.
» Private sector steps up at climate summit
Several big-name companies across multiple economic sectors put their money behind climate change efforts Tuesday, attempting to strike a tone that shows taking environmental steps doesn’t mean they will surrender profits.
» Timothy P. Carney: Barack Obama, War President
There is no real debate over whether Obama is a war president. The question is why he is a war president.
» Why Team Obama isn’t afraid of being considered soft on crime
As Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday championed the first decrease in the federal prison population in more than three decades, it was abundantly clear that Obama administration officials are operating in a political environment fundamentally different than their Democratic predecessors.
» After airstrikes, can U.S. allies do the job?
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey said that he would recommend sending U.S. combat troops back to Iraq if it were the only way to defeat Islamist extremists. Though widely seen as a gaffe, what he describes is a very possible worst-case scenario.
» Editorial: The People’s March against common sense
The protestors demand a world that doesn’t work — one in which jobs are artificially scarce, the poor go hungry, and the developing world stops developing.
» ‘Imminent’ threat from new terror group emerges as first target in Syria strikes
The first targets of U.S. air and missile strikes in Syria late Monday were bases of an Islamist extremist group that had received little mention amid the focus on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria but that U.S. officials now say posed an imminent threat to the homeland.
» Michael Barone: The IRS targeted organizations teaching the Constitution and Bill of Rights
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy blog, Georgetown law professor Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz reports that on Jan. 20, 2012, the IRS revised its BOLO (“Be On the Lookout”) list to include “political action type organizations involved in … educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights.”
» Financial pledges to developing countries fall short as climate summit ends
Nations pledged $1.3 billion toward a United Nations fund designed to help developing countries adapt to the effects of climate change, but the program is still far short of its $10 billion goal for the year.
» Postal officials resist upgrade to verify $22 million in repairs
There is no documentation for more than $22 million worth of repairs that postmasters and other postal officials paid for last year with credit cards, according to USPS inspector general.
