President Barack Obama has picked three of his major campaign donors to fill diplomatic posts to Spain, Norway and the European Union.  The three new ambassadors bundled more than $1 million combined toward Obama’s election efforts.  Overall, they have contributed nearly $2 million to general candidates since 1989.  Alan D. Solomont, nursing home industry entrepreneur and former lobbyist is slated to [...]

Senator David Vitter is standing in the way of Obama’s nomination of Paul Anastas to be initiated into the EPA’s office of Research and Development. Anastas’ specialty rests in researching the design of safer chemicals and chemical processes to replace hazardous substances. The formaldehyde industry is placed under extreme risk with his nomination. Senator David Vitter’s position on this issue [...]

Obama’s national education policy is to support the expansion of charter schools to undermine public education and school-teacher labor unions.  According to Danny Weil, Obama wants to tie teacher’s pay to the student’s performance, which would be measured through test scores. Merit pay based on performance is strongly opposed by teachers unions nationwide. Teachers want [...]