Atlas: Obama's Health Care Plan Means Kissing Access Goodbye

June 23, 2009

President Obama and the Democratic Congress repeat a mantra so often that it has become a truism: America’s health care system is a scandalous failure, and it is absolutely urgent that we fix it now. The mainstream media nod their agreement, and yet, the polls tell us something else: Eighty percent of Americans say they […]

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McArdle: Marking Up Waxman-Markey

June 23, 2009

There is some very angry back and forth about the CBO’s scoring of the Waxman-Markey climate change bill. Economically, I agree, the per-household costs seem to be small. Politically, they may be much larger than their economic cost, for two reasons: first, I’m not sure people are going to put any rebate in the same […]

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Liveblogging Obama's Press Conference

June 23, 2009

We are fortunate that He will be gracing us with His presence in about 5 minutes. I’m switching to the most recent on top… His non-Iranian answers are so long and rambling. It’s like back in the old days when DJ’s needed to take a dump they’d play American Pie or Stairway to Heaven. Health […]

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The Ten Most Expensive Stimulus Road Projects

June 23, 2009

You hear a lot about the government’s desire to build a brand new “green” infrastructure in the United States. But really, the meat of the stimulus is all about rebuilding the old, car-based infrastructure. All those high-speed rail lines and smart power grids will have to come later.

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Interview with Robert Bork on Sotomayor Pick

June 23, 2009

His name has become a verb, one so crisp and eloquent that it was added to the Oxford English Dictionary: if you’ve been blocked from appointment to public office, you’ve been “borked.” The term’s namesake is Robert Bork, whose path to the Supreme Court was derailed in 1987 by a hostile Senate. As Sonia Sotomayor […]

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MLB Union Head Donald Fehr Steps Down

June 23, 2009

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Fehr’s quarter century in charge of the players’ association was marked by a strike that canceled the World Series, record salaries and eventually 14 years of labor peace. And to his detractors, it was marred by a go-slow approach to steroids.

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Family, friends mourn 'Neda,' Iranian woman who died on video

June 23, 2009

Reporting from Tehran — The first word came from abroad. An aunt in the United States called her Saturday in a panic. “Don’t go out into the streets, Golshad,” she told her. “They’re killing people.” The relative proceeded to describe a video, airing on exile television channels that are jammed in Iran, in which a […]

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Poll: Public's Confidence in Stimulus Package Falls

June 23, 2009

Barely half of Americans are now confident that President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus measure will boost the economy, and the rapid rise in optimism about the state of the nation that followed the 2008 election has abated, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

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Leader Plans Southern Baptist Shakeup

June 23, 2009

Johnny Hunt plans to launch a revolution today, intended to reverse shrinking church memberships, declining baptisms and a $30 million funding shortfall for missionaries in the Southern Baptist Convention. Hunt, president of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, says to stop across-the-board deficits Baptists must baptize more converts and relax some historically rigid standards when it […]

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Nature Loving = Nuts? Did Mark Sanford's Walk in the Woods Doom his POTUS Chances?

June 23, 2009

Last Thursday, after the legislative session ended, Sanford left the governor’s mansion, driving off in a black Suburban SUV. He did not take his security detail. He did not tell his lieutenant governor where he was going. He told his aides only that he needed to recharge his batteries. Don’t call me, he told the […]

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