FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Obama, Democrats Flunking …

As I’ve made clear on a couple of occasions, I think there has generally been too much panic over the process of getting a health care reform bill before the Congress. Given a bill as expensive and complicated as this one, …

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On An Overgrown Path: Mixing music and politics

Staying in America, when Leonard Bernstein tried to mix politics and music he more than met his match in the form of ‘new journalism’ pioneer Tom Wolfe, whose devastating Radical Chic article was published in New York Magazine in 1970. …

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Health Care Sacrifice? – Political Punch

I’d noted that many health care reform experts say that – while not negating the overall positive changes to the health care system the president wants to make – there is going to have to be some sacrifice in order for there to be true …

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Amnesty disguised as Health Care Reform

I want to tell you that last week I attended a conference on health care reform sponsored by La Raza. And I will tell you that what they had to say, Mark, is scarier than anything that’s been said so far on the health care plan. …

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Obama Touts Health Care Help for the 'Mom and Pop' Small …

From Sunlen Miller: President Obama again used his weekly address to push for health care reform — this time focusing on how reform would help small businesses.

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Fight terrorism with education, says Clinton citing Mumbai attacker

WASHINGTON – Citing the dramatic confession of Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving Mumbai terrorist, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said good education and jobs were the ways to keep people from turning to terrorism.

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