44: The Obama Presidency

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Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Shed light on lobbying reform

THE HOUSE Democratic leadership is to meet this week to determine the content of the lobbying reform package it says is one of its top priorities. The key test of the leadership's seriousness on this issue will be whether the proposal includes a provision to require lobbyists to disclose the bundles... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Demoratic Debate: Setting Expectations

Let's Set the Stage... Hillary Rodham Clinton: Any time the Democratic candidates gather, the senator from New York will be the focal point. Clinton enters tonight's debate with high expectations -- she has cast herself on the campaign trail as the candidate most ready to lead the country; tonight... Sign in to see full entry.

Food for the World

THE UNITED States is, by far, the largest donor of food in the world. But the U.S. Agency for International Development might feed many more people if it didn't have to comply with several troublesome congressional mandates. USAID must buy only American-grown foodstuffs and cover the cost of... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Dept of Education win is a win for all.

FAIRFAX COUNTY and other Virginia school districts blinked in their game of chicken with the federal government over the No Child Left Behind Act. It was the right thing to do. Continued confrontation over the issue of how to test students who speak limited English would only have hurt students.... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, April 23, 2007

Supreme Court's decision: Where we go from here.

In a long-awaited decision, the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a congressional ban on the procedure called “partial birth abortion,” the first time a specific abortion procedure has been banned. “Pro-life” forces are claiming a great victory, and “pro-choice” advocates are lamenting a terrible... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, April 20, 2007

Gonzales gets beat up on the hill

YESTERDAY'S "reconfirmation hearing" for Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, as Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) called it, didn't go particularly well -- but then again, there was no reason to expect that it would. It was impossible to watch the hearing without feeling sorry for Mr. Gonzales, who is... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Court makes a right turn

YESTERDAY'S Supreme Court ruling upholding the ban on the procedure known as partial-birth abortion is not apt to prevent any abortions: Most likely, the tiny percentage of women who would have undergone this admittedly gruesome procedure will instead opt to terminate their pregnancies by another... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Making schools safer

THE READY availability of handguns in America in general, and in Virginia in particular, is one obvious likely factor in the calamity at Virginia Tech on Monday. As a condition of owning and carrying a gun in Virginia, state law requires practically nothing but a relatively cursory background check... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

The Virginia Tech Killer

EVEN IN a nation numb to violence and inured to recurrent school shootings, the scale of the human tragedy at Virginia Tech yesterday was heartbreaking. The nation watched, transfixed and horrified, as grainy cellphone images and video footage from Blacksburg conveyed a sense of the carnage and... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, April 16, 2007

There is room to compromise on Iraq

PRESIDENT BUSH and congressional leaders are due to meet this week to discuss possible compromises on strategy and funding for the war in Iraq. Neither side has been sounding conciliatory; that the talks are taking place at all may be due to the chorus of senior statesmen who have been pointing out... Sign in to see full entry.

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