Bin Laden will never be caught because you need a monster to chase. He's the boogie man of the new millennium. One day you'll see him being buried and then the new guy to take his place.
Egypt's main opposition party, the Muslim Brotherhood, has agreed to back the liberal opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei as the lead spokesman for the country's opposition groups in reform negotiations.
The Muslim Brotherhood announced the decision on Tuesday as a 'million march man' protest continues in the Egyptian capital city of Cairo, The Wall Street Journal reported.
ElBaradei, 68, is the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for the group's non-proliferation work.
He returned to Cairo last Thursday from Vienna after a long absence, to join protesters and to offer to lead a transitional government.
Egypt's largest opposition group has also urged the United States to stop supporting President Hosni Mubarak.
The Muslim Brotherhood said the United States should instead back the Egyptian people.
The US approach towards the Egyptian uprising will be decisive for the future of Cairo-Washington relations, the group added.
Earlier, the opposition party condemned the UN and Western countries for failing to take action against the government crackdown on protests and the killing of civilians.
The Obama administration just began hardening its tone toward beleaguered Mubarak on Monday after more than 300 people were killed in clashes between protesters and anti-riot police. US officials do not back the ouster of the embattled ruler.
Back in November 2003 an economist named Austan Goolsbee from the University of Chicago wrote an op-ed piece for The New York Times criticizing a Labor Department announcement about job growth the month before.
And he attacked the idea that the country had just experienced nothing more than a mild recession.
"Unfortunately, underreporting unemployment has served the interest of both political parties," wrote Goolsbee. "The situation has grown so dire, though, that we can't tell whether the job market is recovering."
OK, I promised you a laugh. So here it comes.
Goolsbee no longer works at the University of Chicago. He now has a job at the White House as President Obama's top economic adviser.
So the president and Goolsbee will now have to convince the American public that the slight statistical improvement in the employment situation over the past year really is credible -- even if Goolsbee doesn't believe it.
Laughing yet? Of course not. There's nothing funny about what we went through either back in 2003 after the 9/11 terrorist attacks or what we are experiencing now.
As you already know the Labor Department last Friday announced that another 85,000 jobs disappeared from the economy in December and that the unemployment rate stayed, unbelievably, at 10 percent.
On one level it was -- to say the least -- a disappointment for the White House, Wall Street and every American who is out of work or thinks they might be.
Yet on another level, the negative 85,000 figure was a blessing for Goolsbee and President Obama.
At least, as they are quick to point out, this job loss wasn't as bad as the hundreds of thousands per month that were coming earlier this year.
As any regular reader of this column already knows, I take the side that Prof. Goolsbee took when he was in Chicago -- the government's employment numbers aren't believable.
I thought it would be interesting today to present a few (not-so) fun facts about the jobs market.
Federally Employed Income Tax Cheats Just the Tip of the Iceberg
s it nice to cheat tax collectors? Some 41 tax cheats currently employed by the Obama administration alone seem to take the income tax law as a suggestion, not a hard-and-fast rule that everyone should abide by. Then there are the other Capitol Hill workers...
Flawed Administration: Obama Tax Cheats Exposed
Just before the midterm elections, there comes the news that tax cheats are permeating the Obama administration. Already taking hits over clandestine health reform dealings and contradictory war policy announcements, the President now has to contend with the Washington Post revelations that finger 41 executive office employees for owing a combined $831,000 IRS debt.
Ironically, the missing income tax monies from workers at the Office of Government Ethics alone total $75,000. At a grand total, the lump sum of unpaid tax revenues due and owed by all Capitol Hill workers comes out to be $9.3 million.
Funny Dude Almost all of Obama's Cabinet and advisers have been known to cheat on their taxes or not file at all. I heard some where it was a requirement to be a tax cheat to get a job working for Obama.
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