Indiana Governor Cuts Funds To Planned Parenthood
It was among bin Laden's lifelong goals to divide and weaken our country's resolve. Let's not allow him to triumph now that he's gone.
I've never met a conservative who knows what to say when I explain the reality of their premise; they just beg for time to consider.
If the United States intends to refocus on East Asia only to screw it up royally in the same way we've made a mess of the Middle East, it would be in everyone's interest if we fail to reorient our policy.
John Boehner is right when he says that Americans are sick of the arrogance in Washington. But it is hard to imagine a more arrogant politician than one threatening to blow up the economy if he doesn't get his way.
Can we afford to give due process to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed? If our legal system cannot sustain the prosecution of a murderer for his crimes, the implications for our society and its laws are catastrophic.
President Obama has it in his power to bring significant transparency to federal elections. Congressional opposition is irrelevant to the signing of executive orders and the enforcement of existing laws. Here's what he should do.
Arnold and Maria could have experienced the true life of Californians. Instead, they moved further and further away from the lives of most Americans, and perhaps they moved further and further away from each other.
Too many GOP activists can't handle the truth. We won't win back the White House by nominating someone who only appeals to their brand of Republicanism.
Professor Martin Feldstein makes it sound as if Social Security is doomed to failure by demographic changes. But that's far from the case. Modest changes would assure Social Security's future -- without trimming benefits.
The Pentagon is working the press again, this time in support of a so-called withdrawal plan that would break a promise made to the American people by their president.
There's no one we can shoot to make global warming disappear. But we could, if we wanted to, devote the scale of resources we've spent in the last decade invading Iraq and Afghanistan to the task of retooling our energy infrastructure.
He was an evil mass-murderer. Does it matter how it went down? Absolutely.
The redeployment of senior players in Obama's national security team will have no consequential effect on American foreign policy or on defense spending.
People are frustrated because there's all talk and no action on jobs and deficits. People are frustrated because our competitive country is not competing in globalization. To compete, to create jobs, a value added tax is necessary.
With a record 47 million Americans living below the poverty line -- and unemployment standing at nine percent -- should billions in tax breaks go to some of the most profitable companies in the world? Of course not.
When Roosevelt said, "I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished," Americans knew their president was with them. This attitude was the basis of his rapport with the public, and for his three re-elections.
Wall Street and big business want to tame the budget deficit but they don't want to play games with the debt ceiling like others in the Republican camp. It looks like this could be the long-awaited battle for the GOP's soul.
The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., will hear arguments Tuesday on contradictory rulings by two Virginia federal judges on attempts to invalidate the new health care law's requirement that everyone who can afford private insurance must buy it.
Savage caught the eye of the nation following a string of suicides by gay youths, when he and husband Terry Miller posted a video telling gay children that if they can hold on, life does get better.
Robert Scheer, 2011.05.11
Donald Kaul, 2011.05.10
