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In government, good policy should always trump good politics.
Unfortunately, when it comes to Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, partisan politics has trounced policy. Read Full Artice...
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, like many liberals, seems afflicted by Sixties Nostalgia Syndrome, a longing for the high drama and moral clarity of the civil rights era. Read Full Artice...
Given the Republican Party's tendency to pick "the next guy in line" as its presidential nominee, it's no accident that the front-runners for the 2012 nomination are familiar faces from 2008 - former Massachusetts Gov. Read Full Artice...
IF you aren't registered, you can't vote. Some folks will rub their forehead in a weary gesture and want to know, "What now?"
What I'm talking about might only make sense if you live in Altadena, Pasadena or Sierra Madre. Read Full Artice...
AS Democrats consider shoving health care reform through the House with a process known as "deem and pass," it is helpful to return to square one and ask: What, again, is the rush?
A year ago, when reform work got under way, Democrats were hell-bent on. Read Full Artice...
NOWHERE do the two most talked about issues in Washington - jobs and health care - come together more clearly than in the training of future nurses. Read Full Artice...
AS a candidate for president, Sen. Barack Obama rejected "the politics of fear." Well, he won. So now he's playing the fear card to the hilt. Read Full Artice...
HERE'S a phrase you can expect to hear a lot in the next few days: "According to the CBO."
The CBO is the Congressional Budget Office, the official scorekeeper of the costs of proposed legislation. Read Full Artice...
DOUBLING down on dubious bets is characteristic of compulsive gamblers and federal education policy. The nation was essentially without such policy for grades K through 12, and better off for that, until 1965. Read Full Artice...
MARCH is National Kidney Month - a good time to trumpet the bad news about the growing organ shortage.
Today, 83,000 people wait for a new kidney, a record high. Perhaps one in five will actually receive one this year. Read Full Artice...
IN a swindle that would make Bernie Madoff look like an amateur, Barack Obama has gotten a substantial segment of the population to believe that he can add millions of people to the government-insured rolls without increasing the already record-breaking. Read Full Artice...
THERE are any number of good reasons for House Democrats to vote against health care reform. Abortion isn't one of them.
At least, it shouldn't be. Read Full Artice...
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