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SEPTEMBER 29, 2007, 1:00 am
Unless President Bush backs away from his threat to veto a significant expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, it will be incumbent on all Republicans in the House who value health care over ideological warfare to summon the courage anRead more »
SEPTEMBER 28, 2007, 1:00 am
Sometimes it seems that the only way to make sense of the Bush administration is to imagine that it's a vast experiment concocted by mad political scientists who want to see what happens if a nation systematically ignores everything we've learned over theRead more »
SEPTEMBER 28, 2007, 1:00 am
This week, as the international community gathered at the UN, "an alternate universe...set up shop across town." The third Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) annual meeting brought together 1,200 people from 72 countries, including 52 current and former heRead more »
SEPTEMBER 27, 2007, 1:00 am
A shooting at a busy Baghdad intersection nearly two weeks ago that killed 11 Iraqis and wounded 12 has focused much-overdue attention on the role of American private security contractors operating in Iraq.Read more »
SEPTEMBER 26, 2007, 1:00 am
Today, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee to request an additional $50 billion from Congress to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan next year, on top of $141.7 billion that has already been appropriRead more »
SEPTEMBER 25, 2007, 1:00 am
I applaud the thousands of people, many of them poor, who traveled from around the country to protest in Jena, La., last week. But what I'd really like to see is a million angry protesters marching on the headquarters of the National Republican Party in WRead more »
SEPTEMBER 25, 2007, 1:00 am
Dozens of world leaders are currently assembled at the United Nations to create a "road map" for reducing greenhouse gas emissions once the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. Yesterday, President Bush skipped the meetings, but managed to show up in time foRead more »
SEPTEMBER 25, 2007, 1:00 am
President Bush's transportation secretary, Mary Peters, with White House approval, personally directed a lobbying campaign to urge governors and two dozen House members to block California's first-in-the-nation limits on greenhouse gases from cars and tRead more »
SEPTEMBER 24, 2007, 1:00 am
Scientists believe global warming will "shift viticultural regions toward the poles, cooler coastal zones and higher elevations." What that means in regular language: Get ready to say bye-bye to French Bordeaux and hello to British champagne.Read more »
SEPTEMBER 20, 2007, 1:00 am
The Republican obstruction campaign continues. Yesterday, the Republican minority in the Senate filibustered and blocked two measures that had majority support in the House, and bipartisan majority support in the Senate.Read more »
SEPTEMBER 19, 2007, 1:00 am
The Inspector General Act of 1978 states Inspectors General (IG) are appointed within the federal government to "conduct, supervise, and coordinate audit and investigations" for "the purpose of preventing and detecting fraud and abuse."Read more »
SEPTEMBER 19, 2007, 1:00 am
While policymakers in Washington wrangle over how much progress we've made in Iraq, one thing is clear: The war on terror is making some people rich.Read more »
