Obama Is Beatable – But Which Republican Can Do It?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 12th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Obama Is Beatable – But Which Republican Can Do It?
Critics Slam Media Overkill on Palin Emails
Jeremy Peters, NY Times
News organizations mobilized teams of reporters and even recruited online volunteers to scan more than 24,000 pages of e-mails from Sarah Palin that were released on Friday, prompting some critics to accuse the news media of overkill at best and vigilantism at worst.The latest on President Obama, the new Congress and other news from Washington and around the nation. Join thediscussion.
ObamaCare Is the Nail in Medicare’s Coffin
Shikha Dalmia, The Daily
Let me say at the outset that I think both ObamaCare and RyanCare are a dog’s breakfast, a hodgepodge of unappetizing ideas that won’t cure the nation’s core health care problem — out-of-control spending — ObamaCare because it is reckless and RyanCare because it is feckless. That said, if both were implemented as written, RyanCare would be far less injurious to seniors than ObamaCare or, for that matter, doing nothing.
Semper Fly: Fishing With Wounded Warriors
Matt Labash, Weekly Std
Nearly every fly fisherman I know is a celebrator of the absurd. You have to be to spend years of your life standing in cold water, flogging it endlessly with a plastic stick, hoping to outsmart a fish with a chickpea-sized brain by duping it with feather and fur. If you’re successful and conscientious, you will punch a hole through its mouth with sharp steel, play it to hand, admire its beauty or power, then gently return it to the water to swim away freely, as if this senseless blood pageant had never occurred. It’s a pastime that rewards those who …
