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Congressional Hazing of Chuck Hagel Was a Waste of Time
Tweet Share on Facebook February 27, 2013 CommentChris Dodd was a new, young senator in 1982, when C. Everett Koop was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to serve as the nation's surgeon general. A lot of liberals like then-Senator Dodd didn't like Koop, who was anti-abortion, and saw him as the embodiment of the Moral Majority conservatism they despised. Dodd, who was then in the Senate barely a year, voted against Koop's nomination. The surgeon general was approved by the Senate anyway, 60-24.
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Supreme Court Must Defend the Voting Rights Act
Tweet Share on Facebook February 27, 2013 CommentToday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Shelby County v. Holder, a case concerning the constitutionality of key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a landmark law that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that disenfranchised African-Americans.
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Why Did Obama Scrap Nuclear Disarmament in the State of the Union?
Tweet Share on Facebook February 26, 2013 CommentOn Sunday, February 10, the New York Times reported prominently that President Obama's State of the Union address would feature a renewed drive by the president for nuclear weapons reduction toward his avowed goal of a nuclear-weapons-free world. There were ample details: U.S. nuclear forces to be cut by one third, taking our arsenal of actively deployed weapons down to a level of 1,000—well below the New START goal, ratified in 2009, of 1,550 such weapons by 2018.
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Immigration Reform Momentum Should Not Be Lost in Sequester Panic
Tweet Share on Facebook February 26, 2013 CommentSens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham are set to meet with President Obama today in an effort to revive a push to fix the country's broken immigration system. We should all hope the men can find a way to make reform a priority.
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The Invented Controversy of Michelle Obama's Oscars Appearance
Tweet Share on Facebook February 26, 2013 CommentHow desperate for a "controversy" about the Obamas does a person have to be to create one over the appearance of first lady Michelle Obama on the Oscars?
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Obamacare Is Raising Healthcare Costs, Not Lowering Them
Tweet Share on Facebook February 26, 2013 CommentNo one really knows how much Obamacare is going to cost the American government or the American people. All we really know for certain, something that a number of public and private econometric studies have backed up, is that it will be more expensive than the president led us to believe it would be.
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Obama's Minimum Wage Hike Will Raise Unemployment
Tweet Share on Facebook February 25, 2013 CommentIf over the coming summer the black youth unemployment number exceeds 50 percent, then thank President Barack Obama.
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On Gun Ownership and More, Americans Have Little Privacy
Tweet Share on Facebook February 25, 2013 CommentSenate negotiations over gun legislation have been stalled by a seemingly insignificant item: whether records should be kept for private sales of guns. What's remarkable is not that Congress is tussling at all over something as sensible as simple background checks for gun buyers, something supported by a wide majority of Americans, including gun owners. It's that people seem unaware that so much of their private life is already public and often, published.
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Congress Wastes Time Fretting About the Oscars and Zero Dark Thirty
Tweet Share on Facebook February 25, 2013 CommentThe Oscars are a great American tradition filled with pomp, circumstance, intrigue, and … politics. And not the kind of politicking done by Harvey Weinstein on behalf of his movies and actors either.
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Women Are Shut Out in the Media
Tweet Share on Facebook February 25, 2013 CommentWhat a surprise. Men are drowning out women in the public conversation, a new report from the Women's Media Center tells us.
