The Real Budget Battle to Watch
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 28th, 2011 4:28 am by HL
The Real Budget Battle to Watch
Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Kermit Gosnell Is the Canary in the Mineshaft
Tim Dalrymple, Patheos
My little girl is afraid of thunder, and storms come often to Georgia in the spring months. When thunder crackles and booms over the house at night, I walk into her room and invariably find her awake and hiding underneath her blanket. She asks me to lie down, so I stretch out beside her and she pulls my arm across her like a safety belt. I tell that we"”sheltered, hidden, warmly enfolded"”are like the little boy growing even now in her mother's womb. She smiles, tucks her head into my chest, and drifts back to sleep.Last week, the last time I…
The President Turns Left
Dick Morris, The Hill
Two months ago, Washington was abuzz with speculation that Obama was going to follow Bill Clinton's reelection strategy and move to the center, forsaking the liberal agenda that cost him control of the House in 2010. Now it is evident that he has decided to come down hard left and wage his reelection fight from his liberal bunker, firing shots at Republican cuts in Medicare, pushing tax increases on the rich, and attributing the gas-price increase to speculators.Very possibly the decision to tack to the left was not entirely voluntary. With the Republicans constantly confronting him with…
Durbin’s Campaign-Finance Bill Doesn’t Pass Muster
George Will, WaPo
Top BlogsTop BlogsTop BlogsTop BlogsTop BlogsMemo to Democratic senators eager to vote themselves campaign subsidies in the name of combating corruption: You really should not cloak your self-serving crusade in a claim that could be called intellectual corruption. A Senate subcommittee chaired by Dick Durbin, the Illinois Democrat, recently held a hearing “" only Democrats attended “" on his legislation to provide government funding for Senate campaigns. Durbin's Web site advertised the bill as “a comprehensive response to Citizens United,”� a…
