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White House names Jeremy Bernard social secretary

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 26th, 2011 5:34 am by HL

White House names Jeremy Bernard social secretary
WASHINGTON — After two female social secretaries, the Obama White House has hired a man for the job.

Gingrich: If it comes to a shutdown, the GOP should stick to its principles
The Washington establishment believes that the government shutdown of 1995 was a disastrous mistake that accomplished little and cost House Republicans politically.

Little criticism from GOP over Obama’s reversal on Defense of Marriage Act
President Obama has faced little criticism from Republicans over his reversal on the Defense of Marriage Act, showing the complicated and shifting politics of gay rights issues.

Democratic governors criticize Wisconsin’s Walker
With the Wisconsin state Assembly taking the first major legislative step toward enactment of a controversial law to sharply curtail collective bargaining rights of public workers, Democratic governors meeting in Washington offered pointed criticism of the plan’s architect, Republican Gov. Scott …

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Pressures Mount to Resume Domestic Drilling

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 26th, 2011 5:31 am by HL

Pressures Mount to Resume Domestic Drilling

A Spokesman With Little to Say
Dana Milbank, Washington Post

Public Retiree Health Costs Must Be Confronted

The Blinding Clarity of Wisconsin
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
The magnificent turmoil now gripping statehouses in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and soon others marks an epic political moment. The nation faces a fiscal crisis of historic proportions and, remarkably, our muddled, gridlocked, allegedly broken politics have yielded singular clarity.At the federal level, President Obama's budget makes clear that Democrats are determined to do nothing about the debt crisis, while House Republicans have announced that beyond their proposed cuts in discretionary spending, their April budget will actually propose real entitlement reform.

No, Liberalism Isn’t Dead
James Piereson, The American Spectator
HAVING WRITTEN AN ARTICLE a year ago on the question “Is Conservatism Dead?” and answering it in the negative, I am now charged with answering the reciprocal question, “Is Liberalism Dead?”I am afraid that, pace my friend Bob Tyrrell, I must also answer this one in the negative. Liberalism is not dead for some of the same reasons that conservatism is not dead. Liberalism and conservatism are more or less permanent antagonisms within our system of state capitalism such that neither is likely to disappear unless or until the system of which they are parts somehow blows up….