Let me get this straight: Dov Hikind is not only a U.S. citizen, but also a member of the New York state legislature…and he wants to buy property in an illegal Jewish settlement, in an East Jerusalem neighborhood that the U.S. government considers a disputed area where no additional construction should be taking place? Indeed, [...]
E.J. Dionne has an interesting column today on the Republican party’s Senate strategy of forcing a cloture vote on everything, even on the few provisions they support. A few months ago, I wrote that the G.O.P. had become a party led by nihilists. This is further evidence of that. I have doubts about some of [...]
Can we talk? I’ve got something on my chest. Count me among Kate’s colleagues who are flummoxed by this report. I think it proves that even scientists can be pinheads. My issue is not with their recommendations on when and how often women should get mammograms. That seems worthy of debate. What I don’t get [...]
The U.S. Preventive Task Force is under fire this week after it issued new clinical guidelines recommending that women 40-49 forgo annual mammograms unless they have certain risk factors, like genetic mutations that make them more susceptible to breast cancer. The task force also said self-exams are useless and recommended women over 50 get mammograms [...]
A number of outlets are reporting that the bill that Harry Reid will take to the Senate floor has gotten a pretty favorable “score” from the Congressional Budget Office. I’ll be writing more as I get details, but here’s the email I got from one Democratic source:
Ruth Marcus makes sense.
The question of whether to try the 9/11 perpetrators in federal court or a military tribunal is not an easy one. It turns, in part, on whether you see the Al Qaeda attacks as an act of war or a criminal conspiracy. Al Qaeda declared war on the United States in the mid-1990s, an act [...]
From our White House Photo Blog. Would this man’s condition be covered under health reform?
