February 21st, 2012 
Administrator 
Did you know there have only been six African-American US Senators in the history of our country? The Senate.gov home page features an interesting note on African-Americans who have served in the US Senate. An excerpt can be found below: “We honor the many African Americans who have enriched the history of the Senate. In [...]
September 7th, 2011 Administrator 
Last week Anita wrote about the need for a Continuing Resolution to keep our government funded past the end of this year’s fiscal calendar which ends on September 30, 2011. “The Fiscal Year for 2012 begins on October 1. However, Congress has not passed any of the spending bills needed to keep the federal government [...]
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No Comments » July 30th, 2011 Administrator Have you heard the term sequestration? In the coming weeks and months, this may be a word that you hear with increasing frequency. So what is it? A sequestration is an across the board spending reduction of non-exempt mandatory programs to offset this increase in the deficit, as calculated by the Office of Management and [...]
May 21st, 2011 Administrator 
When do we really have to worry about the debt limit? The simple answer is now since the U.S. government officially hit the federal debt limit Monday, May 16th forcing the Treasury Department to make moves to avoid a default and ratcheting up pressure on lawmakers to reach a deal to increase it. Treasury Secretary [...]
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Tags: 111th congress, anita estell blog, Capitol Hill, Congress, Economy, Federal Debt, federal spending, government funding, House of Representatives, Policy, Politics, President Obama, Secretary Timothy Geitner, The Peoples Place, Word of the Week, www.anitaestellblog.com No Comments » April 5th, 2011 Administrator What exactly is the Federal Debt Limit (Debt Ceiling)? Since 1941, Congress has established in law the maximum amount of debt the federal government may issue. The Treasury does not have legal authority to issue any debt above this statutory limit. To avert a default on its credit obligations or a shutdown of government operations, [...]
Posted in Congress, Economy, News, WoW Tags: debt ceiling, debt limit, Secretary Geithner, US administration, US public debt, US Treasury No Comments » March 29th, 2011 Administrator Just War Theory (or Bellum iustum) is a doctrine of military ethics, studied by moral theologians, ethicists and international policy makers, which holds that a conflict can and ought to meet the criteria of philosophical, religious or political justice, provided it follows certain conditions. Following are seven “Principles of the Just War” as established by [...]
December 9th, 2009 Administrator Following the president’s announcement of the pending deployment of 30,000 more of our men and women in uniform to Afghanistan, we thought the word duty a fitting WOW. This week we take a moment to examine exactly what duty means and contemplate not the duty of the men and women in uniform, but the duty [...]
Posted in Economy, Employment, WoW Tags: Afghanistan War, Anita Estell, anita estell blog, duty, President Obama, The Peoples Place, US military, Word of the Week No Comments »
