Creators Syndicate - The Boy Scouts' motto is: Be prepared. Who knew it meant preparing to defend themselves against purple-shirted union thuggery over community service? Kids, pay attention. This is a teachable moment for all of you on power, politics and Big Labor's culture of corruption. Full Story »
Creators Syndicate - As George W. Bush famously asked, "Is our children learning?" Full Story »
The Nation -- It's hard out here for a blogger. Full Story »
The Nation -- The Senate healthcare bill unveiled Wednesday night by Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, is not exactly the cure for all of what ails America. Full Story »
One possible motive for President Obama's long delay in announcing a new US strategy in Afghanistan may be this: He first wants to see tangible steps against corruption by President Hamid Karzai. Full Story »
Mexico City - Few issues have caused as much of a stir this year as the question of whether illegal immigrants will be included in the Democratic healthcare bill. Full Story »
Berkeley, Calif. - President Obama says he wants to "rebalance" the economic relationship between China and the US as part of his plan to restart the American jobs machine. Full Story »
Creators Syndicate - "The political risks of failure are pretty high." Full Story »
Creators Syndicate - President Obama traveled all the way to China to praise the free flow of information. Full Story »
Creators Syndicate - What's up with Barack Obama? The candidate for change once promised to take on the powerful banking interests but is now doing their bidding. Finally, a leading Democrat, in this case Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, has a good idea for monitoring the Wall Street fat cats who all but destroyed the American economy, and the Obama administration condemns it. Full Story »
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The Nation -- Recognizing the social, economic and political threat posed by double-digit unemployment numbers, and by the prospect that those numbers are continuing to rise, key Democratic senators are proposing an innovative two-year plan to spend as much as $600 million to avert layoffs. Full Story »
The Nation -- See if you can follow this logic. Full Story »
The Nation -- When Yiang Jiemian, president of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, gets together with his brother, Yang Jiechi, China's minister of foreign affairs, they don't talk strategy or politics. "We talk about our grandfather," he says, with a smile. Full Story »
The Nation -- I just don't get it. When Congress approves gifts worth billions of dollars to people who don't deserve a dime, why isn't it front page news? Full Story »
Creating jobs for Americans is President Obama's top priority. Yet he left China on Tuesday with little to show in further opening the world's fastest-growing economy to greater imports of US goods and services. Full Story »
Washington - Asian diplomats often say that just showing up is a large part of successful diplomacy. Full Story »
Creators Syndicate - President Obama, who nearly prostrated himself before the king of Saudi Arabia last April, has once again bowed low to a monarch — this time to the emperor of Japan. Full Story »
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