Armed with federal cash from Obama, labor unions touted work in Mideast—where are they now?

The AFL-CIO Solidarity Center chair, Richard Trumka, has good reasons to support President Barack Obama—more than $28 million of them actually. In an annual report covering fiscal year 2011, the center listed $28,602,918 in “federal awards” from the U.S. Dept. of Labor, the U.S. Dept. of State and US AID.

That's a big chunk of the center's funding; the total funding is listed as $30,549,977.

It’s useful to recall something I wrote in March, 2011 that virtually no other media paid attention to:

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Obama's call for Israel concessions, more aid to Arabs

Updated on Friday, May 20, 2011 at 11:32AM by Kay B. Day, Editor

Pundits are weighing in on President Barack Obama’s speech on the Middle East. On Anderson Cooper’s 360 show on Thursday, a couple of unremarkable “experts” projected Obama’s remarks as pro-Israel.  Conservatives disagreed, and analysts like Charles Krauthammer took a very dim view of Democrats’ current approach.

The Daily Caller published remarks made by Krauthammer to Fox News, “What Obama did today is something that no American president has ever done, which is to endorse the return to the 1967 lines which as you said would reduce Israel to a country with a waist eight miles wide.”

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