- Editorial: 2d stimulus? Not yet
- Editorial: Opening moves on health care
It's easy to see why health-care reform is so hard.
Despite getting financial concessions from the hospital and pharmaceutical industries, the Obama administration spent much of last week trying to smooth over the discord within Democratic ranks and other key constituencies.
- Editorial: 2d stimulus? Not yet
- Editorial: Opening moves on health care
President Obama's $787 billion economic recovery plan hasn't made much of a dent in the recession, but taxpayers can't afford talk of another "stimulus" bill.
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Finding practicing Jews Re: "Jewish American Idol," Thursday, about finding 18 Jewish Americans whose accomplishments should be recognized in a major museum exhibition:
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Re: "Barnes move to oust center on Callowhill," July 3: It is troubling that the mayor's spokesperson would minimize the services the Children's Crisis Treatment Center provides by characterizing our Callowhill Street facility as providing no value.
- FINALE?Stephen J. Marmon reported on Congress for the New York Times and is now an author and investment banker in Philadelphia
- Surge in sales of 2 books offers political hintsIn April, University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds noted on his very popular blog, "Instapundit," that sales of Friedrich von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom had shot up since last year's election. At the time it was ranked No. 601 among all books sold on Amazon.com. "Pretty good," Reynolds observed, "for a book that's been out for over half a century." (It went on to reach No. 283 and was holding its own recently at No. 999.)
- Just because we have a black president doesn't mean we can stop correcting for past injustices. We still need affirmative action.I knew it would happen. But so did others. We knew the election of the first African American president would become the weapon of choice for opponents of affirmative action.
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Unless Senate Republicans manage at the eleventh hour to unearth a juicy revelation about Sonia Sotomayor - perhaps by proving that she's the biological mother of Michael Jackson's children - they're not likely to lay a glove on her during the confirmation hearings that begin tomorrow.
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Today's quiz honors essayist and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, who was born on this day in 1817. 1. Where in Massachusetts was Thoreau born?
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Richard T. Hughes is a senior fellow at Messiah College and author of the forthcoming book "Christian America and the Kingdom of God"
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Joseph Priestley was well respected as a chemist and inventor, but he was disliked by many for his political and religious beliefs. Priestley, who lived in England, was an early adopter of Unitarianism and a supporter of the revolutions in America and France. He published works that attacked the British government and criticized Christianity.
- Where to feed your intellectIndicates wheelchair-accessible. Indicates listening devices. Events are free unless otherwise indicated. Symposiums & seminars
- The fate of 2 million refugees is a test of Pakistan's rhetoric about fighting extremists.Despite the exciting events in Iran, Honduras, and the Koreas, pay attention to a less-observed drama beginning in Pakistan this week.
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The two men never met and seemingly had little in common. They were born 26 years apart, came from wildly disparate backgrounds, and lived dramatically different lives.
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I have no doubts about whether Sonia Sotomayor will be confirmed for the Supreme Court by the Senate. I do have doubts about her judgment, particularly on the Ricci v. DeStefano firefighter case.
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Megan Ortagus is the director of communications for the Institute for the Study of War Wade Zirkle is a former Marine infantry officer and founder of Vets for Freedom
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You don't need a briefing book on being a mother to answer this one: What do you do when your daughter comes home complaining that she wants to drop off the swim team or never go to school again because the other kids are being mean and saying terrible things about her family?
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1. b. Concord. 2. d. Transcendentalism. 3. c. Walden. 4. a. U.S.-Mexican War. 5. b. "Resistance to Civil Government." 6. d. The Fugitive Slave Act, from "Slavery in Massachusetts."
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