Robbing Poor Children
Marian Wright Edelman, Huffington Post
Four years ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gaveled the House of Representatives into session saying, “For all America's children, the House will come to order.'' The House budget proposal released Tuesday by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan would transform the legislative body from the Children's Congress to the Corporations' Congress, robbing poor children of their futures while rewarding the richest Americans and corporations.
Janitor Justice in Wisconsin
Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg
“It isn’t fair!” is a cry we try in kindergarten and never give up. To tamp down this thirst for instant justice, the nuns at my school invoked the sweet hereafter, where all wrongs would be righted, as a reason for us to suck it up at recess.As an adult, and a lucky one, the last thing I want now is fairness. I could be waiting on tables instead of being served at them, delivering the papers instead of writing for them.
Obama Hits Losing Trifecta in Florida
Peter Brown, Quinnipiac
President Barack Obama hits a losing trifecta with Florida voters: They disapprove 52 – 44 percent of the job he is doing; they prefer an unnamed Republican challenger by a too-close-to- call 41 – 38 percent in the 2012 presidential election and say 51 – 42 percent that the president does not deserve a second term, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.Today's numbers compare to results of a February 3 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University, when the President was almost dead even in the trifecta:
Glenn Beck, Fox Agree to Divorce
Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast
The highly rated host became such a lightning rod that many at Fox wanted him out—and for Beck, the feeling was mutual. Howard Kurtz on the demise of cable's most radioactive show.Despite his monster ratings, Fox News is bidding farewell to Glenn Beck as tensions between the incendiary host and the top-rated cable news channel have led to a near-total divorce.
It Is Time for Eric Holder to Go
Rep. Peter King, New York Post
On Monday, as Attorney General Eric Holder stood at the podium at the Justice Department headquarters in Washington to announce that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists would be tried by military commissions at Guantanamo, he still insisted that he'd much prefer to try them in civilian courts.The guy just doesn't get it — and because he doesn't, he should resign forthwith.
