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Activists slowly chip away at health-care law

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 4th, 2011 5:37 am by HL

Activists slowly chip away at health-care law
The effort to block, repeal or merely chip away at the health-care law has exploded into a single-minded political industry since Congress and state legislatures across the nation began convening last month.

Senate rejects repeal of health-care law as fight shifts to courts
On Capitol Hill, the battle over the health-care overhaul law has become a kind of scripted political theater. On Wednesday, Republicans in the Senate tried to repeal the law, as expected.

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Days of Embracing Dictators Are Over

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 4th, 2011 5:32 am by HL

Days of Embracing Dictators Are Over
Eugene Robinson, Washington Post

Egypt’s Days of Decision
Conrad Black, National Review
There are only three ways to deal with the sort of uprising that has occurred in the last week in Egypt: smash it, face it down more or less peacefully, or yield to it. Mobs, even when they are championing a good cause, are cowardly and easily routed by force. Napoleon demonstrated this with his famous “whiff of grapeshot” (cannons loaded with small pellets or other hard objects). So did Deng Xiaoping in Tiananmen Square.

Court Hears Challenge to Voting Rights Act

Obama’s Antique Vision of Progress
Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
Barack Obama, like all American politicians, likes to portray himself as future-oriented and open to technological progress. Yet the vision he set out in his State of the Union address is oddly antique and disturbingly static.”This is our generation's Sputnik moment,” he said. But Sputnik and America's supposedly less advanced rocket programs of 1957 were government projects, at a time when government defense spending, like the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb, drove technology. Receive news alertsBut today, as Obama noted a few sentences before, “our…