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Ruth Marcus: "Three unattractive Palin traits have, if anything, been amplified since the election: her unwillingness to buckle down and do the necessary preparation; her tendency to adopt what McCain adviser Steve Schmidt described as a "down is up and up is down" version of reality; and her enhanced sense of injury at the hands … Continue reading Calling Palin Out

AP: "BP on Wednesday launched its latest bid to plug the gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico by force-feeding it heavy drilling mud, a manuever never before tried 5,000 feet underwater."

Josh Ruxin: "What disease kills more kids under age five every year in the developing world than any other? AIDS? Malaria? Measles?  None of the above. The big surprise is that the killer is pneumonia." 

Robert Hay: "Some conservative pro-lifers argued that the final health care bill would be a boom for the abortion industry, requiring abortion coverage and increasing the number performed in the United States.  On at least one count, it looks like this common knowledge would be wrong - or at least that's what the pro-choice industry … Continue reading Pro-Choice Groups Contend Health Care Can Reduce Abortions

CS Monitor: "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has a dual task – keep China on board for tougher sanctions against Iran and coax it into going along with an international condemnation of North Korea over the Cheonan warship incident."

CS Monitor: "A third nuclear test and naval confrontations in the Yellow Sea are likely, say analysts, in response to South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's announcement Monday of retaliatory measures against North Korea for torpedoing the navy ship Cheonan."

Colleen Carroll Campbell: "This rising pro-life sentiment among women has begun to surface in public opinion polls. A 2007 study from Overbrook Research tracked the abortion views of women in Missouri, considered to be a bellwether state on such issues. Researchers found that the share of Missouri women identifying themselves as "strongly pro-life" rose from … Continue reading Pro-life feminism is the future

Nicholas Kristof: "It’s that if the poorest families spent as much money educating their children as they do on wine, cigarettes and prostitutes, their children’s prospects would be transformed. Much suffering is caused not only by low incomes, but also by shortsighted private spending decisions by heads of households...Well-meaning humanitarians sometimes burnish suffering to make … Continue reading Moonshine or the Kids?

David Leonhardt: "With the Senate’s passage of financial regulation, Congress and the White House have completed 16 months of activity that rival any other since the New Deal in scope or ambition. Like the Reagan Revolution or Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, the new progressive period has the makings of a generational shift in how Washington … Continue reading A Progressive Agenda to Remake Washington