Op-Ed Contributor: Health care reform is an economic necessity
Tue, 2 Jun 2009 09:57 am PDT
 The Yahoo! Newsroom - Washington, DC – Health care reform is more than a social imperative – it is an economic necessity. A new study by the President's Council of Economic Advisers demonstrates that the current American health care system is on an unsustainable path. Without health care reform, American workers and families will continue to experience eroding health care benefits and stagnating wages caused by the pressure of escalating health insurance premiums. And without reform, rising spending on Medicare and Medicaid will lead to massive and unsustainable Federal budget deficits. Full Story | Top |
Obama shouldn't lump the right-wing as one
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - Wednesday's shooting at the Holocaust Museum in Washington fed an evolving story about right-wing extremism in America. Even as both sides play hot potato in trying to label the shooter far right or far left, suddenly Janet Napolitano's April memo about an upswing in right-wing violence seemed prescient. The murder of abortion doctor George Tiller in May was no longer a single incident, but part of a trend: right-wing domestic terrorism. Full Story | Top |
Iran's Ex-Foreign Minister Yazdi: It's A Coup
Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:24 am PDT
The Nation - The Nation -- It's Saturday afternoon in Tehran, and the streets are generally quiet. But the aftermath of Iran's rigged election, in which radical-right President Ahmadinejad and his paramilitary backers were kept in office, has left Iran's capital steeped in anger, despair, and bitterness. Full Story | Top |
States Struggle to Fund Unemployment Insurance Programs
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:00 pm PDT
RealClearPolitics.com - With the number of out of work Americans continuing to rise, much of the responsibility for unemployment insurance falls to the states. Yet in the middle of a recession that has hit the housing market and crimped consumer spending, cash-strapped state governments are finding it increasingly difficult to help their unemployed, according to a new study by ProPublica. Full Story | Top |
New Bill Ends Government-Run Companies
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:00 pm PDT
RealClearPolitics.com - The federal government currently holds various ownership stakes in over 500 private companies. This alarming fact, along with the events of recent days in the auto industry, should serve as a wakeup call for all those concerned about preserving the free market principles upon which our nation was founded. Full Story | Top |
Obama's link to the Muslim world: Turkey
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - As President Obama looks for partners in the Muslim world, he should consider listening to the government of Turkey as much as he listens to Egypt's president. He could learn a lot from Turkey about how a smart Islamist party can be a valued participant in a democracy. Full Story | Top |
How government must influence executive pay
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - News item: Last year, compensation for the highest-ranking executives at America's 50 largest financial firms went skidding downhill right along with the economy. In 2007, the executives averaged $13 million a year; in 2008 they earned $9.8 million – a drop of 25 percent. Full Story | Top |
REPUBLICANS' CHANGE OF HEART ON SPENDING IS A LAUGHER
Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:57 pm PDT
Cynthia Tucker - It would be so much easier to take Republicans seriously on government spending now if they'd ever complained about a penny spent back during the tenure of President George W. Bush -- especially during the six years when they controlled every branch of government and could have cut spending dramatically. They could have fought the Pentagon on expensive and unnecessary weapons, eliminated farm subsidies to wealthy growers and pared back Medicare. Full Story | Top |
ASSIGNED READING
Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:57 pm PDT
David Shribman - The auto industry is on life support, banks are almost nationalized, investment houses are gasping for breath, retailers are struggling. So it may not surprise you to learn that another hardy perennial of society is teetering. Bid farewell to the textbook. Full Story | Top |
SOTOMAYOR LOOKS LIKE ONE OF US
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:57 pm PDT
Richard Reeves - JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Growing up in Jersey City in the late 1950s, I thought the United States was an Italian country governed by the Irish. So it was a rather pleasant surprise for me when I moved out into the country and realized that this was a nation of white Protestants, governed by white Protestant men, for white Protestant men. Full Story | Top |
WELCOME BACK, CARTER
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:23 pm PDT
Ann Coulter - Well, I'm glad that's over! Now that our silver-tongued president has gone to Cairo to soothe Muslims' hurt feelings, they love us again! Muslims in Pakistan expressed their appreciation for President Barack Obama's speech by bombing a fancy hotel in Peshawar this week. Full Story | Top |
DEMOCRACY
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:19 pm PDT
Maggie Gallagher - The sausage-making isn't always pretty. Sometimes, at least, it's kind of amusing. Full Story | Top |
Power Grab
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:00 am PDT
Linda Chavez - The Obama administration is engaged in the most sweeping power grab in modern American history, but few people seem to care. Full Story | Top |
Are We Scaremongers?
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:00 am PDT
Mona Charen - "This Time, We Won't Scare" boasts New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, strapping on his armor for the coming joust. Full Story | Top |
Miss Affirmative Action, 2009
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:00 am PDT
Pat Buchanan - Having lost the Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008, Republicans are looking to redefine themselves for a nation that still leans conservative but is less Republican that it has been in decades. Full Story | Top |
Dear David Letterman
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:00 am PDT
Michelle Malkin - Will you teach your son to talk about women and girls the way you talk about Sarah Palin and her daughters? Full Story | Top |
WILL THE FCC PRESS HOLLYWOOD?
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:00 am PDT
Brent Bozell III - The Senate Commerce Committee plans to hold confirmation hearings on June 16 for Julius Genachowski, President Obama's nominee to head the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He is not a controversial figure, in part because he seems like a blank slate. His positions on many regulatory issues are yet to be revealed. But passionate advocates will want answers dragged out of him. Full Story | Top |
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