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Misread Mandates: How Obama and Ryan Fooled Themselves
It was a delicious inside bit of politics: Bill Clinton and Congressman Paul Ryan having a private, backstage chat about Medicare, captured by an ABC News camera.
Forum: Should The Draft Be Reinstated?
Charles Rangel –Democratic Congressman from New York and Korean War vet Staying the course in Iraq means increasing our troop strength, and, not surprisingly, recruitment and re-enlistment levels are down. But proposed enlistment bonuses and other economic incentives will not make the military any more attractive to upper-middle-class young people
Cult of Death: The Jonestown Nightmare
“The large central building was ringed by bright colors.
The Market Can’t Cure Medicare
Our faith in the power of the free market to solve our problems got a big endorsement from Congressman Paul Ryan.
Profiles in Cowardice: How the Beltway Punditocracy Gets Paul Ryan’s Plan Totally Wrong
You may not like Congressman Paul Ryan’s budget plan, but you must admit that it’s courageous. You simply must
Names and Faces: Chris Murphy Bieber fever, Michael Jackson, Kathryn Stockett
Bieber wins, loses a fan Rep. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) has contracted, but speedily kicked, a situation of Bieber fever. Throughout a latest interview with Rolling Stone, singer Justin Bieber, a native of Ontario, came out in favor of health-care reform. “Canada’s the most beneficial country inside the planet. We go to the physician and we […]
CIA Chief Panetta Winning Over Doubters at the Agency
Whatever Leon Panetta lacked in formal intel experience he would make up for with his political smarts. That was one of the chief points made in his favor when the Obama Administration named the former California congressman and Clinton White House chief of staff as its first CIA Director.
NASA names cosmic treadmill after Colbert
What do you do when you’re NASA and comedian Stephen Colbert wins your contest to name the new wing for the International Space Station? You name an orbital exercise machine after him
U.S. lawmaker’s plane fired on in Somalia, spokeswoman says
A plane carrying U.S. Rep. Donald Payne was fired on Monday at the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, but the plane and its passengers appear to have departed safely, a spokeswoman for the congressman said