Unified Action Needed Against North Korea
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 23rd, 2010 4:32 am by HL
Unified Action Needed Against North Korea
A Progressive Agenda to Remake Washington
David Leonhardt, NYT
With the Senate’s passage of financial regulation, Congress and the White House have completed 16 months of activity that rival any other since the New Deal in scope or ambition. Like the Reagan Revolution or Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, the new progressive period has the makings of a generational shift in how Washington operates.First came a stimulus bill that, while aimed mainly at ending a deep recession, also set out to remake the nation’s educational system and vastly expand scientific research. Then President Obama signed a health care bill that…
Jimmy Carter’s Lesson for Tea Parties
Sen. Bob Bennett, Washington Post
Jimmy Carter won the White House in 1976 by riding the wave of anger and disillusionment that followed Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon. Carter tapped into that anger with the slogan “I will never lie to you.” An angry electorate, disgusted with Nixon, decided that was reason enough to give Carter the presidency. He won, in large part, because he made it clear that he wasn't Richard Nixon.Pundits called Carter a political genius.
Iran: Can Sanctions and Diplomacy Be Combined?
Tony Karon, Time
“The purpose of sanctions is to bring the Iranian side to the negotiating table,” said Li Baodong, China's U.N. ambassador, this week, explaining how Beijing could simultaneously support a new uranium-swap deal brokered by Brazil and Turkey and endorse new U.N. sanctions. The Obama Administration appears to have convinced China of its view that sanctions pressure is integral to achieving a diplomatic compromise. That two-track concept of combining punitive pressures with diplomatic engagement may also partly explain the U.S. slap-down of the deal brokered by Turkey and…
