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 |
Iraq's next milestone: the Kurdish question
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - On June 30, Iraq will mark the withdrawal of US combat troops from its cities to surrounding areas. It counts as a major milestone on the road to real Iraqi sovereignty, as well as a point from which to consider the progress made in securing Iraq's future. Full Story | Top |
Honduras Coup Poses Challenges, Questions for Obama, Congress
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:56 pm PDT
The Nation - The Nation -- President Obama branded as "not legal" the the military coup in Honduras, where elected President Manuel (Mel) Zelaya was kidnapped and flown out of the country by soldiers bent on blocking an advisory vote on constitutional reform in the country. 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 |
Iran today: 1979 revolution redux?
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - The events we are witnessing in Iran are not the makings of another revolution, but rather a continuation of the struggle for reform that began in 1979 and has not yet ended. This is the latest installment in Iran's unresolved revolution. Full Story | Top |
HAPPY DAYS WILL BE HERE AGAIN
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:34 am PDT
Richard Reeves - LOS ANGELES -- The word "recession" became part of my vocabulary in 1958, when I dropped out of college to look for a job. It was a tough year, particularly if your resume was as thin as mine. Working as a lifeguard, selling records at a department store or lugging material around at an ironworks did not impress many employers. 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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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