Obama's high-wire electric act
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:00 am PST
The Christian Science Monitor - To justify taking homes and farms to build the Interstate highway, President Eisenhower cited a security need: Military vehicles must move fast in case of war. Now President Obama, citing a need to curb global warming, wants new transmission lines across America to carry electricity from carbon-free energy sources. Will he also use federal muscle to take people's land, even wilderness? Full Story | Top |
Obama's Middle East peace lesson
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:00 am PST
The Christian Science Monitor - To varying degrees and with inconsistent results, President Obama's predecessors have all tried and failed to midwife peace in the Middle East. Full Story | Top |
Obama Versus the Republicans: Chill Out, He's Got This
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:59 pm PST
HuffingtonPost.com - There's a killer web graphic that was created back in the post-Republican Convention days while everyone was writing spasmodic, breathless "Obama should [fill in the blank]" blog entries and "Oh crap! We're gonna lose!" newspaper columns. Full Story | Top |
Iraq's Election: What to Watch For
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:47 am PST
The Nation - The Nation -- The following is an election guide to Saturday's provincial elections in Iraq. Tomorrow and Friday I will report on interviews with two spokesmen for opposing sides of the vote. Full Story | Top |
Disclosure Time
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:13 am PST
The Nation - The Nation -- Since the White House made it official today, I wanted to note as a matter of full disclosure that my wife Kate Shaw is now an attorney in the Office of the White House Counsel. Obviously, my views are entirely my own, and throughout a long campaign in which I had very dear family members involved with the Obama organization, I'd like to think I maintained a critical distance. I intend to do so in covering the administration. Full Story | Top |
Best Stimulus: Homebuyers' Tax Credit
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:30 am PST
RealClearPolitics.com - Last October, I said that the $700 billion bailout package, known as TARP, would become the biggest flimflam ever pulled on the American public. Full Story | Top |
Turning the Economy Over to Politicians
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:36 pm PST
RealClearPolitics.com - President Obama insists that there be no earmarks in his $825 billion package of increased federal spending. But that won't put an end to lobbying and political influence on how the money gets spent. And when politicians get to pick the winners, the economy loses. Full Story | Top |
Letters to the Editor
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:00 am PST
The Christian Science Monitor - Civic work should be voluntary, not mandatoryRegarding the Jan. 26 Opinion piece, "Obama can instill civic responsibility – through a mandatory Youth Corps": The idea of a Youth Corps sounds great, except for one really big catch – why does it have to be mandatory? That goes against the single most inviolable principle in America: no involuntary servitude. Full Story | Top |
Combat the terror of rape in Congo
Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:00 am PST
The Christian Science Monitor - Long overshadowed by conflicts in the Middle East, Darfur, Iraq, and Afghanistan, extensive, predatory terrorism – largely of a sexual nature – continues to attack the heart of Africa. The idea that the international community has a "responsibility to protect" innocent civilians must be given meaning, and nowhere is this more important than in eastern Congo. Military groups there are using rape as a devastating weapon of war. Full Story | Top |
OBAMA BUYS THE BUSH BAILOUT
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:24 pm PST
Maggie Gallagher - President Obama, taking a break from sucking up to world opinion on Arabic television, has a word for those big, bad corporate executives: Stop buying corporate jets and redecorating your offices! Or else! Full Story | Top |
LIBERAL VICTIMHOOD: A GAME YOU CAN PLAY AT HOME
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:23 pm PST
Ann Coulter - I notice that liberals have not challenged the overall thesis of my rocketing bestseller, "Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America," which is that liberals always play the victim in order to advance, win advantages and oppress others. Full Story | Top |
GOP: Time To Get Things Undone
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:00 am PST
Michelle Malkin - President Obama thinks he knows what the primary objective of Republicans in Washington should be: to "get things done." Bashing Rush Limbaugh last week, Obama urged GOP lawmakers to ignore the voices of obstructionism and sign on to his behemoth stimulus package: "We shouldn't let partisan politics derail what are very important things that need to get done." Meeting with GOP leaders on Tuesday, Obama repeated his entreaty: "I don't expect 100 percent agreement from my Republican colleagues, but I do hope that we can all put politics aside and do the American people's business right now." Full Story | Top |
History Lessons
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:00 am PST
Susan Estrich - On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers entered the largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland and liberated the 7,000 prisoners who were still there, most of them sick and dying. Full Story | Top |
THE TIME HAS COME FOR DIPLOMACY
Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:09 pm PST
Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- Five years ago, while traveling in Africa, I found myself in Kampala, the capital of the agriculturally rich but historically troubled country of Uganda, riding in the cab of a particularly able local taxi driver. Full Story | Top |
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