There are slippery slopes, camels’ noses under tents, etc., that we fear will become too common if we budge on our opposition to secrecy. But secretly (oops), we also know that government has to keep some things quiet to keep us safe.
Some in the GOP—quite unlike President Reagan, whose mantle they claim—prefer striking poses to striking a deal to achieve the possible.
The debate over Medicaid funding and Planned Parenthood is about the access of poor people to health care. And about the right of the state of Indiana to assert the power to say where poor people can receive such health care services.
The focus of this session should have been on improving the economy and creating jobs. Instead, money, time and energy were wasted on red herrings.
For many of the journalists whose jobs have fled or who are just barely hanging on, it is as if they are pilgrims whose church has abandoned them.
People are looking for accountability from elected officials these days—not just in Indiana but across the country.
Thus, out of this blood, sweat, angst and smoke, we learned that this past spring, Bauer actually contemplated a run … for governor!
A diploma cannot guarantee commendable performance in college, respectable employment or even success in life.
Unfortunately, too many students who make it through high school aren’t well prepared for what comes next.
A real capital cushion would have allowed the banks to absorb the losses instead of the taxpayers.
At this point in America, young people are being barraged with tattooed vulgarians who dominate the rock and reality-show worlds.
Is a failure to raise the debt ceiling unthinkable? Not at all.
Careless voters may be easily swayed by charisma and rhetoric, oblivious to the monumental disasters created around the world by 20th century leaders with charisma and rhetoric.
If the Republican Party were a normal party, it would take advantage of this amazing moment.
Maybe the human spirit is so powerful it will overcome the stupidity of politics.
It would have been thrilling if Hillary 2011 had simply channeled Hillary 1995, when, as first lady, she made her bodacious speech in Beijing, declaring that “women’s rights are human rights.”
The only winners in this game are the attorneys and bureaucrats who make, and often end up breaking, the deals.
The states are free to exclude a provider from its Medicaid program for any reason provided under state law.
Vince Lombardi would want Bennett and Daniels on his team. These two bold leaders refused to quit on our kids.
I appreciate the fact that a team of people go through a day’s worth of information and try to prioritize it for me.
