November 9th, 2012 at 7:43 am » Comments (2)

I was reading in a recent Army Times an update about what is going on with the whole Command Sergeant Major Teresa King scandal.  I could not find the article on the Army Times webpage so it is likely hidden behind the pay wall.  However, I was able to find an excerpt from the article on the Military Times forums: Sgt. Maj. Teresa King, the first female boss of the Army Drill Sergeant School, is aggressively fighting her removal, saying she was punished for following orders to enforce standards at
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March 31st, 2012 at 5:51 pm » Comments (7)

Here is the update on the surveillance scandal happening within South Korea.  The illegal surveillance was investigated back in 2010 and the documents used as evidence for that investigation have now been leaked to the media conveniently before April’s parliamentary elections: The Prime Minister’s Office conducted illegal surveillance of a number of people across the country over the past three years, mostly those critical of the current Lee Myung-bak administration, reporters of state-run KBS said yesterday, dropping the biggest bombshell revelation yet ahead of the April general election. Members of
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November 23rd, 2009 at 11:26 pm » Comments (19)

Since the announcement of their recent engagement I had wondered how Washington, DC School Superintendent Michelle Rhee hooked up with former NBA star Kevin Johnson, now I know: When Kevin Johnson, the former NBA star who is now mayor of Sacramento, was under investigation last year for alleged financial misdeeds and inappropriate behavior with female students, he had an important ally behind the scenes. Michelle Rhee, the nationally known education reformer who is now head of the Washington, D.C., public schools, had several conversations with a federal inspector general in
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