Roosevelt:  “The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.” From February 28 through March 6: 1845     The first time that a presidential veto was overridden by Congress 1849     US Department of the Interior was created (first known as the Home Department) 

United States After looking at USA’s Drupal powered Whitehouse website, their actual government website is a huge letdown , it uses dated HTML and awful header graphics. Haven seen the gallery of government web sites from around the world (link above), I must agree. The offerings from the United States are pretty poor. via noupe.com My impression from working in this sewer of intellectualism and integrity called Washington, DC for 13 years is that I seriously doubt ANY of the government web shops are out there looking at what other governments

That is heart-breaking, it is wrong, and no one should be treated that way in the United States of America.” He ends up by stating the obvious, “that is heart-breaking” to drive home the point. He focused on Medicare and Medicaid, which are a big part of the government’s expenses. “Put I watched U.S. President Obama’s speech this morning, having taped it from last night.

Is Cuba really that bad of a government that we should continue to impose a sanction on them? Unfortunately, almost two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall the United States does not communicate with Cuba directly. In addition, there is a strong Anti-Castro coalition in the United States that doesn't want to normalize relations with Cuba until the Castro brothers step down from power. That is the question I have. Are they any worse than Iran or North Korea?

Today's 5-4 decision  by the United States Supreme Court in favor of the employee rights of the majority probably has made the Obama Administration, Sonia Soytomayor's nomination, and the progressiveness movement toast.  0160; Will the California Supreme Court which is reviewing the use of contingency in cases filed by government entities notice that the values of our nation have moved more toward the  middle?  In this era of just-in-time media coverage, digital, print, audio, visual and on-your-feet, developments can have immediate and far-reaching impacts. 

And she must convince the country she is prepared to be vice president at a time when the definition of that job has been elevated to the status of governing partner — something voters might have been reminded of Wednesday by images of Vice President Dick Cheney embarking on a mission to war-torn Georgia. But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things. Earlier this year, I noted the double-edged sword of image for female political candidates, particularly in regard to their speaking style. Here again is an excerpt from Kathleen Hall Jamieson's Eloquence in an

the sole superpower:   Whatever mistakes we have made, the plain fact is this: the United States States of America has helped underwrite global security for more than six decades her government, but has the courage to march on. Great speechmaking is rare, and recent great speechmaking (in in this soundbite-driven age) is rarer still.  

The folks at BMW have understood your persona well over decades in the United States. In fact, the eNewsletter is so bad, I can only imagine it must be a stealth product of the federal government’s new car Czar organization. How To Put the Brakes on Their Five Major Marketing Mistakes If you were to imagine an eNewsletter from BMW, you would probably expect it to lead off with a picture something like the one to the right.

lot has transpired in the world of AIG between September and today — a new CEO, a lot of government intervention, and a minor scandal.  Here are the statements today from both AIG  and the United States Treasury and Federal Reserve . This morning brought the announcement that AIG (American International Group), already the largest recipient of bailout (TARP) funding, set to receive another $30 billion dollars of Federal funding.  This comes on the heels of an announcement earlier this morning that AIG announced a loss of over $61,000,000,000 (billion!!)

Hit with a crisis out of nowhere, and one that was tagged with an unfortunate name for a whole industry, the government and industry really scored an immediate victory and one that can not be understated.  A longtime United States Senator switching parties is a) huge news and b) never good for the party which that Senator is leaving. Monday and Tuesday were voluminous with brewing crises — one of the biggest political party switches in history, a new potential pandemic, and a decision to fly Air Force One over Ground Zero — all offered valuable, and contrasting, examples of communicating during an early stage of a crisis, and just how critical getting out in front with a central message is.