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 |
Georgia on Obama's mind?
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama wants to rebuild relations with Russia when he visits Moscow next week, but the very thing that sent them tumbling – Russia's invasion of Georgia last summer – is far from resolution. Full Story | Top |
Whisky Tango Foxtrot?
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 06:36 am PDT
The Nation - The Nation -- It's encouraging that General Jim Jones, the national security adviser, seems to have laid down the law to US generals in Afghanistan: no more troops. 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 |
What's the tipping point for revolution?
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - How can it be that 70,000 protesters in Leipzig in 1989 tore down the Berlin Wall, while up to a million protesters in Tehran in 2009 managed only – so far – to trigger repression? Or, to phrase it differently, what's the tipping point for revolution? Just when does civil society trump entrenched political power? Full Story | Top |
A 'Cairo moment' for Obama in Moscow?
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - Next week, President Obama will travel to Moscow to attend a summit with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. He should use that opportunity to engage not only with the government of Russia, but to communicate directly to the Russian-speaking world. Full Story | Top |
ENCOURAGING DIVERSITY IS NO EXCUSE FOR INCOMPETENT EFFORTS
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 03:00 pm PDT
Cynthia Tucker - According to the U.S. Supreme Court, several white firefighters were treated unfairly by the city of New Haven, Conn., when it refused to promote them despite their high scores on a promotional exam. In a 5-4 decision handed down on Monday, the court ruled that the city should not have scrapped the test just because black firefighters performed poorly. Full Story | Top |
DUKE CASE RAISES QUESTIONS
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 02:56 pm PDT
Maggie Gallagher - Frank Lombard is a Duke University health official, a licensed social worker, a white, college-educated, legal father of two African-American boys, and according to federal authorities, a pedophile. Full Story | Top |
Celebrities At The End
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT
Brent Bozell III - The surrealism of celebrity pop culture erupts when a major celebrity dies. The sudden, mysterious death of Michael Jackson caused a near-total eclipse of the real news. The cable-news channels blurred into 24-7 wailing walls for the so-called "King of Pop." Television ratings surged with a big ka-ching. Full Story | Top |
Thriller
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT
Susan Estrich - Is there still a revolution about to happen in Iran? Full Story | Top |
Who Railroaded the Amtrak Inspector General?
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT
Michelle Malkin - Watchdogs are an endangered species in the Age of Obama. The latest government ombudsman to get the muzzle: Amtrak Inspector General Fred Weiderhold. The longtime veteran employee was abruptly "retired" this month — just as the government-subsidized rail service faces mounting complaints about its meddling in financial audits and probes. Full Story | Top |
SCANDAL DU JOUR
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:31 pm PDT
Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- It occurred to me, after South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's amazing (and amazingly long) public confession about his "other woman," that we might be better off as a country were we to turn things around. In short, instead of having to listen to miscreant men who have cheated on their wives, we could call to the front of the line those who have not. Full Story | Top |
Making a Monkey Out of Darwin
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:00 am PDT
Pat Buchanan - "You have no notion of the intrigue that goes on in this blessed world of science," wrote Thomas Huxley. "Science is, I fear, no purer than any other region of human activity; though it should be." Full Story | Top |
Did Someone Say Coup?
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:00 am PDT
Mona Charen - The news that Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was removed from his post and spirited out of the country by the Honduran military has elicited official condemnations from the governments of France, Ecuador, Chile, Spain, and Argentina; as well as protests from the Organization of American States and the United Nations. 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 |
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