Obama's Top Ten Supreme Court Picks

April 11, 2010

Since no one can honestly claim to know what the president is thinking, here’s my stab at his top ten (after conferring with a few TNL friends) as potential choices, with pluses and minuses for each.

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Netanyahu Ducks U.S. Nuclear Summit, Fearing Censure

April 9, 2010

“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has withdrawn from a nuclear security summit in Washington next week, fearing Muslim delegates will demand Israel give up its assumed atomic arsenal.” This is going to get worse before it gets worse.

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More Political Games With Afghanistan

April 9, 2010

Ajami: “The president has in his command a great fighting force and gifted commanders. He clearly hopes they will succeed. But there is always the hint that this Afghan campaign became the good, worthwhile war by default, a cause with which to bludgeon his predecessor’s foray into Iraq.”

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SCOTUS Justice Stevens to Retire

April 9, 2010

Not really a surprise: “Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the court’s oldest member and leader of its liberal bloc, says he is retiring. President Barack Obama now has his second high court opening to fill.” Obama continues to have every opportunity to make his mark.

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Marc Ambinder and "Pink" Republicans

April 9, 2010

Marc Ambinder’s label of “the pinks” sounds more like a slogan suggested by a Northern Virginian with views of Southern political insiders gained primarily from schtick television.

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Bernanke: Get Ready to Slash Entitlements or Raise Taxes

April 8, 2010

“Bernanke warned Wednesday that Americans may have to accept higher taxes or changes in cherished entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security if the nation is to avoid staggering budget deficits… ‘These choices are difficult, and it always seems easier to put them off – until the day they cannot be put off anymore.’”

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Obama, Medvedev Sign Treaty to Do Nothing Much at All on Nuclear Arms

April 8, 2010

Dan McGroarty analyzes President Obama’s Nuclear Posture Review and New START treaty: “So is the new treaty counter-productive to the point that the U.S. Senate should refuse ratification? No. The Senate can sign off not because New START does so much so well, but because it attempts so little.”

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Nearly Half of US Households Escape Federal Income Tax

April 8, 2010

No worries on Tax Day: “About 47 percent will pay no federal income taxes at all for 2009. Either their incomes were too low, or they qualified for enough credits, deductions and exemptions to eliminate their liability. That’s according to projections by the Tax Policy Center, a Washington research organization.”

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Norman Podhoretz, Sarah Palin, and the Tea Parties

April 1, 2010

[tweetmeme] Norman Podhoretz has a perceptive piece on the Republican Party, the conservative movement and the reaction to the ever-divisive Sarah Palin: When William F. Buckley Jr., then the editor of National Review, famously quipped that he would rather be ruled by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the combined […]

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Sports Bloggers Want to Know About Health Care, Too

April 1, 2010

[tweetmeme] Josh Zerkle of With Leather and KSK asked me to join his latest podcast about how health care reform will translate to the lives of normal people. Here are a few notes for followup: -It’s false to suggest that insurance companies are ever able to legally drop people from plans for getting sick. The […]

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