44: The Obama Presidency

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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Hillary's change on Trade

PRESIDENT Bill Clinton had to fight many powerful lobbying groups to win approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993. None was more imposing than that most Democratic of constituencies, organized labor. Mr. Clinton stood up to the unions: He publicly condemned the AFL-CIO for its... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Rudy needs Hillary

Over the last few months, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has ramped up his rhetoric against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, deriding her as a radical liberal who will take the country in the wrong direction. In an interview late last week, Giuliani continued his assault on Clinton, describing... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Who's messing with Wikipedia

Thanks to an ingenious new tool designed by a Caltech graduate student, Virgil Griffith, it is now possible to figure out who has been rewriting Wikipedia entries to promote their ideological or commercial interests, or simply for personal amusement. Griffith's Wikiscanner tool allows readers to... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, October 1, 2007

Hillary has no plan for Social Security

"THERE ARE basically only three options: We can raise taxes again, which no one wants to do because the payroll tax is regressive... We can cut benefits... Or we can work together to try to find some way to increase the rate of return." Once there was a Clinton who understood three key things about... Sign in to see full entry.

SCHIP - Fact Check on Children's Health

PRESIDENT BUSH appears determined to veto the $35 billion expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program that the House and Senate approved last week. Although there's scant hope of changing the president's mind, here's a fact-check of some of the administration's arguments against the... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, September 28, 2007

Presidential Rankings

THE REPUBLICANS 1. Rudy Giuliani: It's been a very good last month for the former mayor of New York City. His decision to take on the "unholy trinity" -- as one Republican strategist put it -- of Moveon.org, Hillary Clinton and the New York Times was a brilliant tactical maneuver that caught his... Sign in to see full entry.

Right on Torture

SEN. HILLARY Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) is getting kicked around for her position on torture -- specifically, whether she contradicted both herself and her husband in answering a question on the subject at the Democratic presidential debate in New Hampshire on Wednesday night. Moderator Tim Russert posed... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

A Future for Children

TENS OF thousands of illegal immigrants graduate from American high schools every year, having entered the United States as children or young teenagers with their parents. They may be computer geniuses, talented artists, gifted debaters, entrepreneurial whiz kids or superb athletes, but it doesn't... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Obama's Cookie Jar Politics

DEMOCRATIC presidential candidate Barack Obama last week proposed $80 billion or so in tax cuts for middle-class taxpayers. These are the sort of have-a-cookie proposals that sound great to voters, especially Democratic primary voters, so they might be smart politics. That doesn't make them smart... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

General "Betray us"? - The facts

The anti-war group Moveon.org attacked General David Petraeus in a September 10 full-page advertisement in the New York Times, accusing him of being "constantly at war with the facts." Here is an annotated fact check of MoveOn.org's broadside against Petraeus. The Facts General Petraeus is a... Sign in to see full entry.

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