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Today's Op/Ed: Op-Ed: Health reform will empower families against market constraints Op-Ed: Dems’ health plan will increase costs for families, small businesses Op-Ed: Health care status quo would be disaster for middle class India-Pakistan rapprochement? Terrorists, beware. The problem with conservative echo chambers Squeeze Insurance Profiteers, Not Medicare Obama Allows US to See Color Dems Outraising GOP in Congressional Swing Districts A day of reckoning for Bush's 'torture' lawyers Should Obama sign a peace treaty with North Korea? FIGHTING FAT BY FIGHTING FAT Editorial Roundup To Have and To Hold Lily Burk, 17 Bully Boys: A Brief History of White House Thuggery LAST WEEK'S RACIAL INCIDENT OFFERS US A 'TEACHABLE MOMENT' Know-Nothing-in-Chief Sgt. Crowley, a Cop in Full Mr. Oblivious to Evidence THINGS NOT DONE, ROADS NOT TAKEN Op-Ed: Health reform will empower families against market constraints Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:48 am PDT The Yahoo! Newsroom - Washington, DC — For decades, Washington has talked about fixing a broken health care system. And for decades Washington failed to act – allowing the special interests to stall reform while the cracks in the system turned into crevices, then craters. Full Story Top Op-Ed: Dems’ health plan will increase costs for families, small businesses Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:40 am PDT The Yahoo! Newsroom - Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) is the House Minority Leader and a leading voice in the Republican party. He is currently serving his 10th term representing the 8th Congressional District of Ohio. Full Story Top Op-Ed: Health care status quo would be disaster for middle class Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:21 am PDT The Yahoo! Newsroom - Washington, DC — How’s this for a health care plan? It will make your premiums go up—in fact, it will double health costs over the next ten years. It will strip millions of Americans of their coverage. It will send our deficit through the roof. Full Story Top India-Pakistan rapprochement? Terrorists, beware. Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:00 am PDT The Christian Science Monitor - This week's sit-down between the prime ministers of Pakistan and India may not have removed mountains of suspicion and hostility between these two rivals, but their meeting may have leveled a few foothills. Full Story Top The problem with conservative echo chambers Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:00 am PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Coffee drinkers face a slew of decisions each morning: caf or decaf, sugar or Splenda, foam or no foam. But A Conservative Cafe in Crown Point, Ind., signals that there is one more choice to make: red or blue. Full Story Top Squeeze Insurance Profiteers, Not Medicare Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:37 am PDT The Nation - The Nation -- At a critical moment in the tense health care debate -- when the U.S. House and Senate are scrambling to forge compromise reform plans that might be passed before the Congress embarks upon its traditional August recess -- President Obama is retooling his health-care reform message. Full Story Top Obama Allows US to See Color Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:00 pm PDT RealClearPolitics.com - Barack Obama did not herald in a "post-racial America." In fact, the trope betrayed how we confine race to superficial terms. It's the same reason Stephen Colbert has made a standing joke of not being able to "see color." Color is with us. And we cannot get past race by not directly looking at it. Full Story Top Dems Outraising GOP in Congressional Swing Districts Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:00 pm PDT RealClearPolitics.com - As Democrats gear up for 2010, they face a daunting historical fact: since Abraham Lincoln, only two newly-elected presidents have seen their party gain seats in Congress in their first midterm election. Full Story Top A day of reckoning for Bush's 'torture' lawyers Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:00 am PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Under even the most dire conditions, there is a gold standard when it comes to applying the rule of law. It was set 65 years ago by a former attorney general of the United States. At issue today is whether the current attorney general will uphold that standard. Full Story Top Should Obama sign a peace treaty with North Korea? Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:00 am PDT The Christian Science Monitor - A rare opportunity has emerged for the United States and North Korea to directly engage in diplomatic dialogue. The Obama administration should quickly and firmly grab it. Full Story Top FIGHTING FAT BY FIGHTING FAT Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:21 pm PDT Maggie Gallagher - How do we trim health care costs? Weighing in on the national debate, a new study in the journal Health Affairs urges: Fight fat by fighting fat. Full Story Top Editorial Roundup Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:41 pm PDT AP - Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: Full Story Top To Have and To Hold Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:01 am PDT The Weekly Standard - Detention policy is one of the least discussed but most important aspects of the war in Afghanistan. The handling of prisoners gets publicity only when there is a major screw-up such as at Abu Ghraib or the smaller-scale abuses that occurred in Afghanistan in the early years of the U.S. presence there. But properly handled this can and should be a major element of any successful counterinsurgency strategy. Full Story Top Lily Burk, 17 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT Susan Estrich - You just have to see the picture of her: a girl on the verge, finding her style, raising her voice, about to embark on a life she could barely yet imagine. This summer she was supposed to volunteer helping homeless drug addicts on Skid Row. Instead, according to police, she was killed by one. Full Story Top Bully Boys: A Brief History of White House Thuggery Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT Michelle Malkin - Six months into the Obama administration, it should now be clear to all Americans: Hope and Change came to the White House wrapped in brass knuckles. Full Story Top LAST WEEK'S RACIAL INCIDENT OFFERS US A 'TEACHABLE MOMENT' Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:54 pm PDT Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- Just about everyone in the country seems to be kicking around the lessons supposedly surrounding "the" confrontation of the first half year of Barack Obama's term. Full Story Top Know-Nothing-in-Chief Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:11 am PDT The Weekly Standard - Is President Obama an economic illiterate? Harsh as that sounds, there's growing evidence he understands little about economics and even less about economic growth or job creation. Yet, as we saw at last week's presidential press conference, he's undeterred from holding forth, with seeming confidence, on economic issues. Full Story Top Sgt. Crowley, a Cop in Full Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT Pat Buchanan - Sunday, professor Louis Henry Gates retreated from his threat to sue Sgt. James Crowley. Friday, President Obama retreated from his charge that the Cambridge cops "acted stupidly." Full Story Top Mr. Oblivious to Evidence Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT Mona Charen - The last moments of President Obama's press conference last week have gotten the most attention, and some of the president's supporters have wondered whether his big-footed interference in the Cambridge professor's melodrama has overshadowed Obama's push for health care reform. Full Story Top THINGS NOT DONE, ROADS NOT TAKEN Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:57 pm PDT David Shribman - FRANCONIA, N.H. -- We were going to climb Mount Pemigewasset, which juts out from the cliffs that form Indian Head and has a remarkable panorama of White Mountain summits at the top. Full Story Top

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