Robert Schlesinger

Welcome to the New USNews.com Opinion Section

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Welcome to the relaunch of USNews.com's opinion section.

You're reading our new blog, which features contributions not only from U.S. News regulars like Michael Barone and Bonnie Erbe, but some new voices like veteran reporters Sam Dealey and Jack Farrell as well as political editor Morgan Felchner and me. It should be a stimulating mix of opinions. I suspect everyone will find something they like here—not to mention something with which you'll disagree.

Over in the right-hand column you'll find a new mix of op-eds, including not only familiar U.S. News columnists like Gloria Borger and MortZuckerman, but an array of new writers as well. All of the writers will have this in common: provocative, thoughtful and intellectually honest arguments.

In the middle you'll find quick-hit things that should be entertaining, informative or, hopefully, both.

It is, as Lou Reed once sang (or is that said?), the beginning of a great adventure, and it's one on which we embark with a spirit of—to borrow FDR's great phrase—bold, persistent experimentation. Let us know how we're doing.

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Its hilarious to watch people who are inherently subservient followers to authority desperately and futilely try to create a "mass movement". Its even more funny to watch them scratch their heads and wonder why they always fail.

I've heard drilling our way out our energy problem compared to trying to pay off your mortgage by looking for change in the sofa. Now I'm wondering if millions of rightwing deadbeats didn't cause our mortgage crises by actually doing just that.

libarbarian of DC 11:28AM August 13, 2008

while the idiots twitter away, the people that read things worth reading know offshore drilling will do nothing whatsoever to reduce gas prices, not even 10+ years from now when it starts flowing to refineries. and we've also thought that extracting that oil will be very expensive and only financially viable as long as oil prices remain high, so no gas price savings there either. and even more laughable is the idea that the little that will be extracted will reduce dependence on foreign oil, especially coming from the party that sniggers at conservation and championed the self-defeating gas guzzling SUVs over the last 15 years.

ron of PA 10:53AM August 13, 2008

You ask: "Is this a political stunt, as some have suggested, or the beginning of a new movement?"

It's a stunt.

Tom of FL 9:47AM August 13, 2008

Robert Schlesinger

Robert Schlesinger

Robert Schlesinger is managing editor for opinion at U.S. News and World Report, overseeing all opinion editorial content. He is the author of "White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters." E-mail him at rschlesinger@usnews.com. Follow him on Twitter: @rschles.

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