Op-Ed Contributor: Shifting America from sick care to genuine wellness (The Yahoo! Newsroom)

In this file photo, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, Sept. 30, 2005, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)The Yahoo! Newsroom - Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) is a senior member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and chairs the Senate panel that funds medical research and health care..




Op-Ed Contributor: Health reform possible without growing government (The Yahoo! Newsroom)

In this file photo, Sen. Max Baucus, R-Mont., left, and Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., right, listen as Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., makes remarks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)The Yahoo! Newsroom - Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) is the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee and the former chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.




Will Obama violate the spirit of the Fourth? (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Soon after taking up his White House tasks, the idealistic Barack Obama of the 2008 campaign got mugged by the reality of being America's commander in chief.

Release of the "Holy Grail" of Torture Reports Delayed Again (HuffingtonPost.com)
HuffingtonPost.com - Read Andy Worthington's other articles on HuffingtonPost.com

Defining Patriotism (The Nation)
The Nation - The Nation -- The first sentence of The Nation's prospectus, dated July 6, 1865, promised "the maintenance and diffusion of true democratic principles in society and government," surely a patriotic sentiment, as was the magazine's name.

Left Dodges Moral Debate on Ricci Case (RealClearPolitics.com)
RealClearPolitics.com - It took the story of one firefighter to expose the tension between fairness and affirmative action.

Who are the top earners on Obama's payroll? (RealClearPolitics.com)

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel listens to U.S. President Barack Obama during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington June 23, 2009. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES POLITICS)RealClearPolitics.com - During his two months on the campaign trail as Barack Obama's running mate, Joe Biden was fond of sharing his father's witticisms with audiences to illustrate a point. One of the more common ones went something like this: "Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value."




Obama soars abroad, but America's PR doesn't (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama's speech to the Islamic world was a splendid example of public diplomacy at its best. His message was sincere, his words eloquent, and his quotations from the Koran pertinent as he reached out beyond governments and political organizations to millions of ordinary Muslims.

A 'coup' in Honduras? Nonsense. (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Sometimes, the whole world prefers a lie to the truth. The White House, the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and much of the media have condemned the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya this past weekend as a coup d'état.

THIS IS HOW CONGRESS WORKS (Richard Reeves)
Richard Reeves - LOS ANGELES -- There is a story Rep. Henry Waxman during hearings on steroid use in baseball that some say is apocryphal. But I believe it -- and we have been friends for more than 25 years. It is said that after the sensational hearing where Mark McGwire said he did not want to talk about the past, the congressman came into his office the next morning and said he was surprised there was so little coverage in the newspapers.

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