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    Apr 2, 2013 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  1. Goldberg: Is disability the new welfare?

    The government in Britain recently did something interesting.
    The government in Britain recently did something interesting. It asked everyone receiving an "incapacity benefit" — a disability program slowly being phased out under new reforms — to submit to a medical test to confirm they were too...

    Tags: Social Security, NPR, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Long Island Rail Road, United Kingdom

    2. Mar 5, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. A Russian 'frenemy'

    The White House is trying to revive the "reset" with Vladimir Putin's Russia. It is likely to be a wasted effort. The reset is dead not because of someone's ill will or mistakes. It is because Washington and Moscow have reached the limit of accommodation that neither could overstep without compromising the central elements and moral content of their foreign and domestic policies. The Obama administration's effort would be far better spent on devising a more realistic strategy that at least stabilizes the relationship, albeit on a lower level of interaction.
    The White House is trying to revive the "reset" with Vladimir Putin's Russia. It is likely to be a wasted effort. The reset is dead not because of someone's ill will or mistakes. It is because Washington and Moscow have reached the limit of...

    Tags: Camp David, White House, Summits, U.S. Congress, Elections

    3. Feb 26, 2013 |Column| Allentown Morning Call

  3. Republican reality check beginning with Priebus

    Some Republicans haven't gotten to the first step: the one where you admit there's a problem. In a roundup of reactions to the 2012 U.S. presidential election by the magazine Commentary, for example, conservative writer Wilfred McClay says Republican worriers are "wildly overwrought" because the 2012 election was "close."
    Some Republicans haven't gotten to the first step: the one where you admit there's a problem. In a roundup of reactions to the 2012 U.S. presidential election by the magazine Commentary, for example, conservative writer Wilfred McClay says Republican...

    Tags: Voting, Reince Priebus, Elections, Barack Obama, Scott Walker

    4. Jan 27, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Rethinking our China strategy

    Senate committees will soon be asked to vote on President Obama's nominees to head the departments of State and Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency. Many, if not most, of the senators' questions will be focused on the nominees' views on the pressing security problems the United States faces in the greater Middle East and Afghanistan. But it would be a mistake for the committees to let the hearings pass without also examining the administration's own stated policy priority — the "pivot" or "rebalance" to the Asia-Pacific region.
    Senate committees will soon be asked to vote on President Obama's nominees to head the departments of State and Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency. Many, if not most, of the senators' questions will be focused on the nominees' views on the...

    Tags: Nuclear Policy, White House, Weaponry, Elections, Iran

    5. Feb 21, 2013 |Column| Tribune Media Services

  5. Extortionist in chief

    Cal Thomas
    At the end of 1995 and stretching into January 1996, the federal government "shut down" because of an impasse between President Bill Clinton and House Republicans led by then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich. The issue was increased taxes vs. less spending....

    Tags: White House, U.S. Congress, Fiscal Cliff, Elections, Barack Obama

    6. Feb 19, 2013 |Column| Allentown Morning Call

  6. Balanced budget amendment still a terrible idea

    Frustrated by the persistence of large deficits and alarmed by the long-term gap between spending and revenue, congressional Republicans are promoting a constitutional amendment to require balanced budgets. Rep. Trent Franks, an Arizona Republican, tells...

    Tags: Social Security, U.S. Congress, Elections, Barack Obama, Public Finance

    7. Feb 17, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. Boys in the back of the class

    Every year millions of well-intentioned American kids show up for kindergarten or first grade woefully unprepared to learn. Some can't even tell you their complete name, let alone spell any of it.
    Every year millions of well-intentioned American kids show up for kindergarten or first grade woefully unprepared to learn. Some can't even tell you their complete name, let alone spell any of it. That's enough reason for me to believe "high-quality...

    Tags: Minority Groups, Barack Obama, Authors, Preschools, Schools

    8. Feb 18, 2013 |Story| Reuters

  8. Special Report: Class struggle - How charter schools get students they want

    Getting in can be grueling.
    Reuters
    Getting in can be grueling. Students may be asked to submit a 15-page typed research paper, an original short story, or a handwritten essay on the historical figure they would most like to meet. There are interviews. Exams. And pages of questions for...

    Tags: Social Security, Poverty, Illegal Immigrants, Students, Lotteries

    9. Jan 28, 2013 |Column| Orlando Sentinel

  9. Recipe for conservative revival

    WASHINGTON -- Happy days are not here again, but they are coming for conservatives. Barack Obama -- with the lowest approval rating (according to Gallup, 50 percent, four points lower than that of the National Rifle Association) of any re-elected president when inaugurated since the Second World War -- has a contradictory agenda certain to stimulate a conservative revival.
    WASHINGTON -- Happy days are not here again, but they are coming for conservatives. Barack Obama -- with the lowest approval rating (according to Gallup, 50 percent, four points lower than that of the National Rifle Association) of any re-elected...

    Tags: Hurricanes, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Labor Markets, Hurricane Katrina (2005)

    10. Feb 10, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Marine takes over as U.S. commander in Afghanistan

    KABUL, Afghanistan – Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. took over Sunday as the newest and probably last U.S. commander in Afghanistan, tasked with ending America’s longest war even as insurgents continue to challenge the U.S.-backed Afghan government.
    KABUL, Afghanistan – Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. took over Sunday as the newest and probably last U.S. commander in Afghanistan, tasked with ending America’s longest war even as insurgents continue to challenge the U.S.-backed Afghan...

    Tags: Iraq, Polio, NATO, Armed Conflicts, U.S. Military

    11. Feb 7, 2013 |Column| Orlando Sentinel

  11. Eric Cantor's empty happy talk

    WASHINGTON -- Republicans have happened upon a felicitous new strategy for reviving their party from its depressed state: They need only think happy thoughts.
    WASHINGTON -- Republicans have happened upon a felicitous new strategy for reviving their party from its depressed state: They need only think happy thoughts. At a retreat for Republican leaders last month, former House speaker Newt Gingrich told them...

    Tags: Reince Priebus, Elections, Immigration, MSNBC (tv network), Regional Authority

    12. Dec 4, 2012 |Story| Reuters

  12. Special Report: Behind U.S. race cases, a little-known recruiter

    SOUTH THOMASTON, Maine (Reuters) - Sometime in the next few months, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide two cases that could fundamentally reshape the rules of race in America.
    Reuters
    SOUTH THOMASTON, Maine (Reuters) - Sometime in the next few months, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide two cases that could fundamentally reshape the rules of race in America. In one, a young white woman named Abigail Fisher is suing the University of...

    Tags: Minority Groups, Voting, Graduation, Laws, Litigation

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