Daily News Alert | Sunday, June 21, 2009 12:01 AM PDT |
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 |
A stop sign for human trafficking
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - It's not every day that the US government gives Nigeria a shout-out for a job well done. After all, the State Department labels this African nation's human rights record "poor" and its 2007 presidential election "seriously flawed." Full Story | Top |
The Showdown Builds In Iran
Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:08 am PDT
The Nation - The Nation -- Tens of thousands of people appeared on Tehran's streets today, again, despite Ayatollah Khamenei's clear warning that they'd be met with force and violence. Full Story | Top |
Obama's Ally on Iran Policy: Pat Buchanan
Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:54 am PDT
The Nation - The Nation -- In this era of Democratic domination of the executive and legislative branches of the federal government, who is the new go-to man for counsel with regard to wise foreign policy strategies? Full Story | Top |
Cities Find Creative Ways to Handle the Recession
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:00 pm PDT
 RealClearPolitics.com - On each paycheck, Americans all across the country are used to seeing two differing numbers-their salary, and their salary after taxes. But what if a city needed more money than what its citizens were already contributing? Would residents volunteer to donate money to pay for the services the city provides? Full Story | Top |
Politicking Continues Amid Policy Debates
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:00 pm PDT
RealClearPolitics.com - With recent polls showing the American people growing more skeptical of the Obama administration's policies, it was notable that Thursday was a rare day at the White House without a "message event" - the president appearing before the public to discuss important issues. Full Story | Top |
Nigeria's lesson for America: civil service
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - Americans rarely look to Africa for inspiration or example, but given President Obama's efforts to ramp up civil service at home, a closer look at Nigeria's mandatory National Youth Service Corps is instructive. It points to an undeniable record of accomplishment in West Africa on one largely unreported front. Full Story | Top |
A dad's love that never faltered
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - I was conceived in the era before ultrasound. The doctors thought I was a boy because my heartbeat was strong. Everyone had some quick adjustments to make when I arrived in the delivery room as a girl. My dad, a seminary student at the time, explained my unexpected sex change in the church bulletin as "God having other plans." Full Story | Top |
50 YEARS LATER
Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:57 pm PDT
David Shribman - PITTSBURGH -- This September the leaders of the 19 most influential nations and a representative of the European Union will gather on the banks of the Allegheny River to discuss global issues. Fifty Septembers earlier, another powerful leader traveled to Pittsburgh for conversations and speeches. The world was very different then. Full Story | Top |
WHY IS OBAMA SO POPULAR?
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:03 pm PDT
Richard Reeves - LOS ANGELES -- The New York Times and CBS News headlined and broadcast last week that their polling indicated Americans have more confidence in President Obama than they do in his programs -- especially when it comes to health care and the federal budget. Full Story | Top |
Fed Rules
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:00 am PDT
Linda Chavez - One of the great dangers in dealing with a crisis is making major, long-term decisions based on the immediate circumstances unique to the problem you're trying to fix. Full Story | Top |
Tiananmen Moments
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:00 am PDT
Pat Buchanan - On Dec. 14, 1825, following the death of Alexander I — who had seen off Napoleon — his brother, the grand duke, who had just taken the oath as Czar Nicholas I, was confronted by mutinous troops and rebels in Senate Square before the Winter Palace. Full Story | Top |
The Obamacare Horror Story You Won't Hear
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:00 am PDT
Michelle Malkin - The White House, Democrats and MoveOn liberals are spreading health care sob stories to sell a government takeover. But there's one health care policy nightmare you won't hear the Obamas hyping. It's a tale of poor minority patient-dumping in Chicago — with first lady Michelle Obama's fingerprints all over it. Full Story | Top |
Gay Rights
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:00 am PDT
Susan Estrich - Rep. Barney Frank, the first member of Congress to be re-elected after coming out, is right in telling gays not to abandon the president. Full Story | Top |
Eye-Opening YouTube
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:00 am PDT
Brent Bozell III - Pornography is no longer a poison creeping into the crevices of our popular culture. It is part of the very fabric. One sensation at a recent Apple conference for new and developing applications in San Francisco was the "iPorn bikini girls" advertising free X-rated films for your iPhone. It sounds like a whole new reason to fear people using their mobile phones while they drive. Full Story | Top |
The Man of the Hour
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:00 am PDT
Mona Charen - Someone few Americans had ever heard of one week ago now stands poised to alter history. His name is Mir Hossein Mousavi and his case utterly debunks the school of historians who insist that history is made by large impersonal forces rather than by key individuals. While it is certainly true that Iran's current crisis had many antecedents, it is equally true that the decisions of this one man will play a decisive role in the outcome. Full Story | Top |
OBAMA'S HANDS-OFF POLICY IS JUST THE RIGHT TOUCH
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:57 pm PDT
Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- Oh yes, I remember it well! Angry young demonstrators, disillusioned with their society, demonstrating on the streets of Iran. Day after day after day against a "repressive" and "unrepresentative" government. Shouting in Farsi, "Death to injustice!" and (never forgetting) "God is great!" Actually yearning for a few deaths to rally around. Full Story | Top |
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