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 |
How Confucianism could curb global warming
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - Now here's a curveball to secular Western policy experts: China's intellectuals are openly debating the role of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism in promoting the Communist Party's vision of a harmonious society and ecologically sustainable economic development. Full Story | Top |
Time to End False Bipartisanship
Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:41 pm PDT
The Nation - The Nation -- God I hope David Broder is wrong. "The President has told visitors," the Washington Post columnist wrote last week, "that he would rather have 70 votes in the Senate for a bill that gives him 85 percent of what he wants rather than a 100 percent satisfactory bill that passes 52-48." The good news is that Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is now talking about how bipartisanship may need to be redefined downward if the Democrats are going to pass meaningful healthcare reform. In a meeting with journalists last week, Emanuel proposed that health-care legislation could be bipartisan without Republican votes. "There will be ideas from both parties, and individuals from both parties, in the final product," he said. "Whether the Republicans decide to vote for things they promoted will be up to them." ( David Axelrod seconded the emotion in his appearance on ABC's "This Week.") Full Story | Top |
GOP Pushes Back Against Dem Energy Deal
Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:00 pm PDT
 RealClearPolitics.com - Following an agreement last night with Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), House Democrats are poised this week to pass an energy and climate change bill that has stewed in uncertainty since being passed out of committee one month ago. Full Story | Top |
Sanford Family Learned Of Affair Amid Stimulus Battle
Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:00 pm PDT
 RealClearPolitics.com - During a gripping press conference carried live on national cable, Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) acknowledged having been unfaithful to his wife for the past year, and also misleading his own staff and through them the state about his whereabouts in the past week. Full Story | Top |
The new bond in town
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - Lost in the ideological battles over fiscal stimulus is one newly authorized program that is already delivering results: Build America Bonds (BABs). Unexpected demand has transformed this once-obscure component of the federal stimulus legislation into the hottest bond since Daniel Craig. Full Story | Top |
TAXING INHERITANCE
Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:57 pm PDT
David Shribman - Iraq and the economy are hard problems. President Barack Obama seems to be handling them gracefully. Iran and health care are hard problems. The president is having more difficulty with them. Full Story | Top |
SANFORD'S HYPOCRISY WILL OUTLAST HEADLINES OF HIS AFFAIR
Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:57 pm PDT
Cynthia Tucker - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and his family are in the midst of an emotionally wrenching and deeply personal crisis. I feel sorry for them. I especially pity Sanford's four sons, caught up in a scandal they did nothing to create. Full Story | Top |
Don't Cry for Me
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:00 am PDT
Susan Estrich - Spare me the tears, OK? If you want me to respect the privacy of your stupidity, don't expect my sympathy. And whatever you do, I don't want to hear about your agony. Full Story | Top |
This Is Your Nurse On Drugs
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:00 am PDT
Brent Bozell III - Twisted Hollywood and its twisted parade of tastemakers known as television critics are forever in search of another "black comedy," and if audiences don't embrace one, then they can always make another one. Full Story | Top |
EPA's Game of Global Warming Hide-and-Seek
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:00 am PDT
Michelle Malkin - The Obama administration doesn't want to hear inconvenient truths about global warming. And they don't want you to hear them, either. As Democrats rush on Friday to pass a $4 trillion, thousand-page "cap and trade" bill that no one has read, environmental bureaucrats are stifling voices that threaten their political agenda. Full Story | Top |
True Revolutionaries
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:00 am PDT
Linda Chavez - The security forces may have temporarily crushed the resistance in Iran, but the revolution is far from over. Full Story | Top |
Shame Is Deader Than Dead
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:00 am PDT
Mona Charen - "The author is ending her marriage. Isn't it time you did the same?" So the Atlantic Monthly provocatively introduces its July/August feature "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off." It comes at a propitious moment. Full Story | Top |
TODAY'S TERRORISTS ARE FAR REMOVED FROM YESTERDAY'S GUERRILLAS
Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:57 pm PDT
Georgie Anne Geyer - HELSINKI -- When young and gutsy New York Times correspondent David Rohde made his daring "farewell" from a Taliban prison camp on the Afghan/Pakistan border last week, his escape brought back in technicolor one of the great journalistic questions of our era: Should journalists talk to terrorists? Full Story | Top |
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