Al Kaltman

The President Goes on Spring Break

Today (Saturday, March 19) French President Nicholas Sarkozy is hosting a summit of world leaders to discuss the implementation of the United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing the implementation of a no-fly zone over Libya. British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and the Secretary General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, will all be in attendance. When the world’s leaders sit down together, the man who should be at the head of the table, the leader of the free world, will be conspicuous by his absence. President Obama felt he had more important matters to attend to than the Libyan crisis. Last night, he and his family flew to Brazil for Spring Break.

The Naked Truth About TSA’s Full Body Scanners

In his end of year message to TSA employees, TSA administrator John Pistole patted himself on the back for his “wise financial stewardship.” He was referring to the one billion dollars that TSA has spent to install 500 Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) full body scanners at US airports. Pistole plans to install 1,300 additional AIT scanners at the cost of another two billion hard earned taxpayer dollars.

The SEIU Assault on American Colleges and Universities

Unheralded and virtually unnoticed, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has been pushing its way into the halls of America’s universities and colleges. Not content to restrict its activities to food workers and non-supervisory personnel, the Union has moved on to organizing part-time faculty.

A three step plan for halting the influx of illegal aliens

Two of the iconic phrases that best describe the American experience are “nation of immigrants” and “land of opportunity.” For over 300 years people from around the world have flocked to these shores. They came in search of the American Dream: liberty and prosperity.

The Obama Administration Spits in the Face of Great Britain

On Friday, Philip J. Crowley, the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, reaffirmed the Obama administration’s position that with respect to the dispute between Great Britain and Argentina over the status of the Falkland Islands, the US stance is one of neutrality. He repeated Secretary of State Clinton’s offer to mediate the dispute.

A Feckless Response

Feckless can mean irresponsible, incompetent, ineffectual, feeble, weak, futile and useless. All of the possible meanings for feckless apply to the US Government’s response to the incident involving the Qatari diplomat who Wednesday lit up on United 663 while on route to Denver.

The Fishy Smell from the White House’s Plans for Federal Control of Health Care

The White House has warned the American people that “there is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care.” Since the White House can’t keep track of all of “these rumors,” Linda Douglass, the director of communications in the White House Health Reform Office, has aske d the American people to help her target those individuals who fear that Obama intends to eliminate private health insurance and curtail health care for the elderly: “If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov."