Report: Hillary Clinton In Talks About Leaving Job For New Role
Anthony Weiner is a modern human being. So he ensnared himself in things that modern humans do. When I first heard about his problems, I snickered and made jokes, too. Now, I'm sad for him, his family, his district and his colleagues.
Politics would be much better served if we approached it in the same manner that we approach life and our relationships -- that we should communicate in campaigns in the same way that we operate in our personal lives.
The Republicans clearly want to have their cake and eat it too -- that is, destroy entitlements and reap the political gains to be had from a failing economy.
Do you want your doctor to tell you the truth about health risks, based on the best evidence that can be brought to bear? When it comes to the risks of guns in the home, particularly to children, the gun lobby wants to prevent doctors from doing that.
Does knowing whom Paul Revere actually warned make a possible candidate any more or less savant on fiscal policy? Should declaring that the American Revolution began in New Hampshire doom one's chances for nomination?
Under a "first to file" system, individual and independent small inventors don't stand a chance of winning the race to the patent office against large corporations.
While people of color and the traditionally marginalized make enormous strides with access to places never even imaginable before, the working class and poor are still under attack in extraordinary and systematic ways.
The Republican-controlled House is hell-bent on crafting the perfect predator state, one that can wage war without the least need to entertain doubt or acknowledge conscience.
To suggest that Americans are better off without these new rights is ludicrous. Florida judge Roger Vinson's ruling is simply conservative judicial activism run amok.
President Obama's putative embrace of the false notion that businesses need more financial incentives in order to hire risks giving legitimacy to the same supply-side economic approach that has failed for the past thirty years.
It is time to clear the path to let Afghanistan create their own self-determination. America must focus on keeping our people safe and getting our economy growing.
in terms of damage since 9/11, terror attacks have ranked above shark attacks but below just about anything else that could possibly be dangerous to Americans
All of the data and evidence available makes it clear: the insurgency's momentum and tempo of operations has not been adversely affected by our surge in Afghanistan.
Whatever may be true in any other arena, in trying to restrain any President on war powers -- always an extremely difficult task -- broad, bipartisan action is essential.
Suppose you were a policy maker who wanted to pivot away from emphasizing the need to reduce the budget deficit and towards the need to reduce the jobs deficit. You'd get out there on TV and stress the 20 million un- and underemployed. And you'd remind anyone listening that you haven't forsaken the truly necessary work of getting the budget on a sustainable path. It's just that with unemployment at 9.1%, deficit reduction simply isn't the country's most important mandate right now. But how do you define your plan for this? I'd suggest starting with the Hippocratic Oath: First, do no harm.
The worst non-crime crime committed by Anthony Weiner is that he's successfully fed a dangerous Mobius Loop involving the news media and those of us who consume its mostly nonsensical content.
Will the president name the indisputably best leader -- Elizabeth Warren -- to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency that she conceived, championed and constructed? This is not a high bar. In fact, the choice couldn't be easier.
Some of the advice in A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality is tame. More controversial is the fact that the authors offer recommendations with the assumption that identification with the same-sex parent will offset development of same-sex attraction.
There is new and growing evidence that the failure to provide safe drinking water, or the fear (or reality) of contamination in tap water that forces people to buy bottled water, imposes special financial burdens on poor and minority communities.
Rev. Al Sharpton, 2011.06.09
Matthew Dowd, 2011.06.09
