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. The Washington Times (7/13, Boyer, 492K) reports that the White House on Monday defended Trump's commutation for Stone and "said former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama indulged in politically connected pardons and wholesale clemency." White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Stone's cleme

d commutations in nearly four years, while Mr. Obama issued 1,927 in eight years." McEnany "also contrasted the clemency for Stone with some of Mr. Clinton's infamous 11th-hour pardons." Trump Does Not Rule Out Pardoning Flynn. CNBC (7/13, Breuninger, Mangan, 3.62M) reports on its website that in comme

Future of Kashmir and the Impact of COVID-19 on South Asia' online discussion, with featured speakers including AU School of International Service Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies Akbar Ahmed and Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. Dr Asad Majeed Khan; 11:00 AM • Washington Post Live discussion with Dem

t is ironic that Obama is adopting Donald Rumsfeld's defense strategy -- high tech, light footprint. We will find, as we did in the Bush years, the Clinton years, and in many previous decades, that drones and missiles can only go so far in preserving American interests. If not reversed, the deep cuts

and greatness is invariably in proportion to distance from the men—and the first settings -of great undertakings. The great North African historian Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), perhaps the world's first sociologist, left behind some firm notions about dynasties: they rise, they beget kingdoms, then they decay,

er, think | know a bit about economics, and | also read a lot of history. So the Ballmer announcement has me thinking about network externalities and Ibn Khaldun. And thinking about these things, I’d argue, can help ensure that we draw the right lessons from this particular corporate upheaval. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT

ment offices and agencies. Voters chiefly blamed congressional Republicans for the mid-1990s shutdowns, and the fallout boosted Democratic President Clinton. Ever since, many establishment Republicans have urged the party to avoid using shutdown threats as a bargaining tool. But a new generation of tea-

90s shutdowns, and the fallout boosted Democratic President Clinton. Ever since, many establishment Republicans have

er, think I know a bit about economics, and I also read a lot of history. So the Ballmer announcement has me thinking about network externalities and Ibn Khaldun. And thinking about these things, l'd argue, can help ensure that we draw the right lessons from this particular corporate upheaval. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_

nment offices and agencies. Voters chiefly blamed congressional Republicans for the mid-1990s shutdowns, and the fallout boosted Democratic President Clinton. Ever since, many establishment Republicans have urged the party to avoid using shutdown threats as a bargaining tool. But a new generation of tea-pa

90s shutdowns, and the fallout boosted Democratic President Clinton. Ever since, many establishment Republicans have

ident Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Syria as "not too bad," and the sanctions agai

on of the political systems operating in many Arab countries than notions based on imported ideologies such as communism, nationalism, and socialism. Ibn Khaldun's analysis was based on his native North Africa, but it can be adapted to the conditions of the Mashreq, or Levant-where similar historical conditions