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Anthony Weiner wanted to get off, while Evan Bayh wants to get rich. Weiner serviced himself in public, while Bayh's abusing his public service. Guess which one will be a pariah in Washington and which will still attend all the right parties?
While everyone in the film was fascinating, there was one couple that truly captured my heart. They called themselves the Harolds, an elderly gay couple living together in Washington D.C. and partners for longer than most couples could ever imagine, gay or straight.
"You can't look at what happened in the run-up to 2008 and see how it's not going to repeat itself, given what we've done," says Neil Barofksy, who became TARP's Special Inspector General in December, 2008.
We do not need less stimulus right now, but more; we do not need less regulation, but more. We need to focus on job creation, not debt reduction, right now.
It's hard to predict what could happen in the GOP primary, but at this point, Rick Santorum's barely-limping-along campaign seems in need of divine intervention.
In recent decades, unemployment in the U.S. has been less of a challenge than it has been in Europe. This is a double edged-sword that has rendered the country less resilient. Jobs must be the number one priority.
My family moved to our quiet farming town on the Delaware River so we could enjoy a simple, healthy life outside of the bustling city. We want to enjoy that peace down the road, and know that the tap water we drink, and bathe our children in, is safe.
Don't give us a long-term plan for future Congresses to pay the debt. Start paying it. Cut out the politics and replace the corporate tax with a 6% VAT. Cut spending and start paying for government.
We need a society in which our government and our people embrace responsibility for the common good and in which altruism and philanthropy are more a motivation in supporting charitable activity than in the profit-seeking greed of capital markets.
Looking ahead, the U.S. and Russia have the opportunity to share our experience and work with other countries to promote nuclear security and to combat terrorism.
Is natural gas Satan or savior in our quest for energy independence? This is not just a technical question, it is a question that cuts to the very heart of what it means to be an American.
Why should parents take more chances of their children getting sick because we are squandering their best medicines to fatten animals faster? Is this really what Montanans elected their sole congressman to do?
It doesn't need to be this hard to vote. Young people use social media and technology to solve problems, but they're still supposed to sign and snail mail registration forms at the Post Office every time they move?
With nearly 1.5 million acres of American geography erased from our maps by mountaintop removal operations, Appalachia is dealing with an emergency situation of historic proportions.
Based on a long history of economic study, today cartels are illegal in virtually all developed countries. The question with OPEC, therefore, is not why it is bad but why has it survived.
Our deficit will not be reduced by ending Medicare and Medicaid. It makes no economic sense; it certainly is not morally justifiable. We must honor the moral obligation that our country has to help the less fortunate among us.
For some reason, Sarah Palin loves doubling down. For some reason, she thinks that two wrongs actually do make a right. What two wrongs do when you repeat them is show you're wrong twice.
It's unfortunate that the Oversight and Government Reform committee, under Issa's leadership, has functioned thus far as a soapbox for corporate special interests, but there remain good people who are committed to restoring that body to its proper role.
Investigations of such deadly pathogens as SARS should be conducted only in highest-security BSL-4 labs, tucked away in remote locations where any accident can be quickly contained.
Dorian de Wind, 2011.06.08
Daniel Menaker, 2011.06.08
