Over the past week, America has applied a great deal of pressure to Pakistan – trying to determine whether Pakistan aided Osama bin Laden’s years of hiding in Abbotabad. So what should we make of the defiant Pakistani response? How will Pakistan try to look tough for its people and appease the U.S. at the same time? Could the U.S. overplay this hand against Pakistan? And will all that’s happened in the past week help us to crush the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the months ahead? We ask Dr. Walid Phares, author most recently of “The Coming Revolution” and an adviser to the Anti-Terrorism Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Archives for May 9, 2011
The Truth About Jobs
On Friday, the Department of Labor announced a net gain of 244,000 jobs in the month of April. But it also reported the overall unemployment rate is back up to 9.0 percent. So why the disconnect? Which number is more likely to be inaccurate? What’s the real jobless rate when factoring in part-time and discouraged job seekers? Is the job situation getting markedly better as President Obama claims? How bad is the housing market and how much is that impacting the overall economy? We ask Diana Furchtgott-Roth, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. She was also chief of staff of President George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers. She is now director of the Center for Employment Policy at the Hudson Institute.
Three Martini Lunch 5/9/11
Greg Corombos of Radio America and Jim Geraghty of National Review cheer Dick Cheney and others who are pushing President Obama to end the Justice Department probe of CIA interrogators. We also groan as experts suggest the housing market could get substantially worse before it gets better. And we rip former Rep. Alan Grayson as he proves he has learned nothing since getting thrashed in the midterm elections.