One-State Solution: Give Middle East to the Jews
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 6th, 2011 4:29 am by HL
One-State Solution: Give Middle East to the Jews
Andrew Klavan, PJM
Vouchercare Is Not Medicare
Paul Krugman, New York Times
What’s in a name? A lot, the National Republican Congressional Committee obviously believes. Last week, the committee sent a letter demanding that a TV station stop running an ad declaring that the House Republican budget plan would “end Medicare.” This, the letter insisted, was a false claim: the plan would simply install a “new, sustainable version of Medicare.” Paul Krugman But Comcast, the station’s owner, rejected the demand — and rightly so. For Republicans are indeed seeking to…
Palin and the Politics of Winging It
Mark Leibovich, New York Times
If a maybe-candidate for president does not issue an “official schedule” to the news media as she tours around in something that closely resembles a campaign bus, did the tour really happen?You betcha it did — as evidenced by the all-terrain coverage that, true to precedent, trailed Sarah Palin wherever she motored last week.But how dare she disregard the media like that?
California Starts Enacting Health Reform
Jonathan Cohn, New Republic
Some of the most interesting developments in health care policy these days aren’t taking place in Washington. They’re taking place in Sacramento and the rest of California, where public officials, private sector leaders, and activists are working to implement the Affordable Care Act.Remember, under the terms of the law, states must must do everything from setting up new insurance exchanges to slapping regulations on insurers. (If states don't, the feds step in.) That generally means enacting legislation and, this week, California lawmakers were busy doing…
Four Words: He Made It Worse
Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
The debate in Washington is serious as a heart attack: whether the United States should raise its debt ceiling so it can borrow more money to stay afloat. The statutory ceiling on our national debt"”our legal borrowing limit"”is $14.3 trillion. That limit was reached, according to the Treasury Department, on May 16. Treasury says it can make do until early August, when the ceiling must be raised by $2.4 trillion. Congressional Republicans have made their stand clear: They will agree to raise the limit only if it is accompanied by spending cuts or reforms….
