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Obama, Congress, Tea Party All Fail on Libya
Tweet Share on Facebook March 23, 2011 Comment (3)Once again, by responding a day late and a dollar short to unfolding events, President Obama has made things more difficult for himself. (I hesitate to say a “dollar short,” because spending money may be the one of the few things he knows how to do.)
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Congress Should Put a Stop to For-Profit College Rip Offs
Tweet Share on Facebook March 23, 2011 Comment (20)Less than a decade ago, for-profit colleges were a blip on the radar screen: Kaplan, Strayer, the so-called University of Phoenix. Some provided job training or skills-based learning, and online courses were in their infancy. They made money but didn’t make waves.
No one paid too much attention to accrediting these schools or to what was or was not happening to the students.
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Remembering Elizabeth Taylor: Actress, AIDS Activist
Tweet Share on Facebook March 23, 2011 Comment (3)I’m not one to react when some actor or musician dies. I didn’t light a vigil candle for Kurt Cobain, and Michael Jackson’s death, while certainly unfortunate and untimely in terms of his age, seemed to me like a tragedy waiting to happen. So I’ve been asking myself why I felt a stab of sadness at the passing of Elizabeth Taylor.
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6 Myths About Obama's Libya Policy
Tweet Share on Facebook March 23, 2011 Comment (31)I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!
What am I mad about? The attacks on the president coming from both the left and the right. Well, here are the accusations and here is my response:
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Why Blogs Beat Facebook and Twitter
Tweet Share on Facebook March 23, 2011 Comment (3)Blogs are dying.
Long live blogs!
According to a New York Times feature, blogs as a cultural phenomenon have largely been displaced by Facebook and Twitter and other social networking outlets.
However: Blogs “remain a home of more meaty discussions.”
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Poll: Voters Still Trust GOP More on Spending, Jobs, Healthcare
Tweet Share on Facebook March 22, 2011 Comment (7)Pollster Scott Rasmussen released numbers Monday showing that voters still trust the GOP to better handle most of the critical issues facing the country.
It’s somewhat astounding, given the way the information coming out of Washington has almost uniformly presented the Republicans as the “black hats” and the Democrats as the “white ones,” especially when it comes to cutting special interest spending—not to mention the negative press the national GOP got as a result of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s battle with the public employee unions.
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Is Obama's War on Libya Constitutional?
Tweet Share on Facebook March 22, 2011 Comment (25)The most pointed and damning criticism of President Barack Obama’s military excursion into Libya comes not from the peacenik left or the truculent right (who grumble about the Obama being less aggressively hawkish than France, as if a cultural punch-line--the French are militarily inept!--should be a benchmark for war-making). No, the critique that I am interested in hearing President Obama respond to comes from candidate Barack Obama.
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Japan Disaster Reignites U.S. Nuclear Energy Debate
Tweet Share on Facebook March 22, 2011 Comment (6)The tragedy in Japan has given new life to the anti-nuclear movement, as many Americans who had not thought about a potential nuclear disaster in decades have started to worry about the effects of radiation from a nuclear accident (not to mention the question of where to store the spent fuel rods). The question is, will the episode cause us to fundamentally change our energy-use habits?
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Walker, Scott and Christie Steal from the Future on Infrastructure
Tweet Share on Facebook March 22, 2011 Comment (23)My grandfather lived to be 99. He played ragtime on the piano every night and grew a magical raspberry patch in summer. He spent his days working on the highways in Wisconsin for 40 years, starting in the Depressed 1930s as a draftsman. Later came the glory days of the national building boom during the Eisenhower era. My grandfather took pictures of the projects for slide shows, oh, so neatly organized. Some cityfolk in the family thought his devotion to making roads quaint. As my grandmother Eleanor said of her husband Stratton at lunch out in the yard one day: "Strat believes in highways."
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Obama's Lack of Libya Leadership Could Make It the Next Iraq
Tweet Share on Facebook March 21, 2011 Comment (16)America woke up this weekend to news that the United States had led a massive strike on Libyan air defenses in order to enforce a United Nations resolution authorizing a “no fly zone.” Whether the strike was undertaken in furtherance of U.S. national security interests or President Barack Obama’s political ones is the subject of much debate.
