You may or may not agree with the approach Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is taking on health care, but it certainly beats the constricted no-nothingism of the Congressional Republicans. His Indiana experiment with health savings accounts may tell us a lot about how to proceed with health care reform.
Asked–and answered. It sounds like the Catholic bishops conference won’t need time to consider whether to oppose health reform because of objections to coverage for abortion services. A handful of Catholic leaders, led by USCCB president Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, released a statement yesterday expressing their “deep disappointment” over the defeat of the Nelson [...]
That’s where bailout watchdog Elizabeth Warren finds herself these days. She talked about that and more this morning on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal”:
Oslo How does a rookie President, having been granted the Nobel Peace Prize, go about earning it? Well, he can start by giving the sort of Nobel lecture that Barack Obama just did, an intellectually rigorous and morally lucid speech that balanced the rationale for going to war against the need to build a more [...]
As delivered today at Oslo City Hall, in Oslo, Norway. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, citizens of America, and citizens of the world: I receive this honor with deep gratitude and great humility. It is an award that speaks to our highest aspirations — that for all the [...]
Five things you probably don’t need to know about: 1. Have you noticed recently that friends or neighbors are lugging hundreds of pounds of mint condition currency from their mailbox to their cars? Well here’s what’s going on: They have discovered the apparently-legal, frequent-flier, dollar-coin, free-shipping gambit you probably wish you thought of first. 2. [...]
TIME’s Bobby Ghosh files this report: AP is reporting that Pakistani authorities in the northeastern city of Sarghoda have detained five U.S. nationals. Three of the men are of Pakistani origin, one is of Egyptian descent and the fifth man is of Yemeni descent. All are aged between 18 and 20, according to local authorities. [...]
File under “Best Filibuster Ever.” Over at TPM, Christina Bellantoni points to this video of North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan reading the scripts of televised pharmaceutical ads yesterday on the Senate floor. Like William Shatner doing the Palin family on Conan O’Brien, a little bit of Dorgan goes a long way, especially when it comes [...]
