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Monday, June 27, 2011
The Morning Scoop - Exclusive: The Scandal of Military Schools
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Troops returning from Afghanistan this year face a bleak homecoming: Tens of thousands of children of U.S. military personnel attend military-base schools that are falling apart from age and neglect, and have failed to meet the Defense Department's own standards. From safety risks such as fire hazards and tainted brown drinking water to makeshift boiler rooms used as study areas, the Center for Public Integrity's Kristen Lombardi investigates the Pentagon's education crisis in this week's Newsweek.
The International Criminal Court on Monday issued an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on charges of crimes against humanity. The warrants also cover his son and intelligence chief, and preclude the embattled leader from traveling to any of the 116 countries that are covered under the court's jurisdiction, including neighboring Tunisia and allies such as Uganda and Venezuela. Meanwhile, rebels are battling loyalist troops in the town of Bir Al-Ghanam, just 50 miles southwest of Tripoli—part of a push, says their spokesman, to the capital.
Can President Obama solve a Congressional impasse before the U.S. defaults on its debt in August? He'll be on the Hill on Monday, to see what he can do. In the morning, he'll meet with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid find out what the Democrats can live with. Then, at 5:00 p.m. he'll meet with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Obama and the Democrats want to raise some of the revenue to lower the debt by ending tax break for ethanol companies and lowering tax deductions for private jets; Republicans, however, insisted over the weekend that they will not agree to any measure they consider a tax increase.
As Islamist gangs increasingly consolidate power in southern Yemen, the country's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, will appear on television for the first time since he fled to Saudi Arabia after an attack that severely burned him, says an aide. "The president will appear within the next 48 hours despite our fear that the burns on his features and on different parts of his body will be an obstacle," a senior aide said Sunday. "His appearance will not be as the media expects it." Saleh has not been seen the June 3 attack. Many people suspect, meanwhile, that Saleh intentionally allowed Islamist violence in the south, as a scare tactic.
Michele Bachmann will launch her presidential campaign in Iowa, and she'll start with some momentum: A Des Moines Register poll over the weekend showed her in second place in the state with 22 percent, just one point behind Mitt Romney. She'll launch her bid in the Iowa town of Waterloo, where Bachmann was born and lived until she was 12. GOP strategists say winning Iowa is essential to Bachmann's campaign.
Chilling with the Middletons. Tweeting from Davos. And still the people's princess. If not for that tragic night, what her life might look like now.
How to Split the GOP by Michelle Goldberg Gay marriage isn't just the right thing to do on civil rights grounds. Suddenly, it's good politics, too. Michelle Goldberg on the new Democratic wedge issue.
Casey's Dysfunctional Lawyer by Diane Dimond In the explosive Casey Anthony trial, the defense team provides the gasoline. Diane Dimond on how the accused child murderer's attorney has earned the judge's ire—and might sink her case.
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