Mar 12 Prof. Offers Left a Guide to 'Answer Back' Professor David Coates thinks today's liberals need a guidebook on how to fight conservative arguments. So he wrote one for them. Coates, a professor of political science at Wake Forest University, released "Answering Back: Liberal Responses to Conservative Arguments," which… Continue reading
Mar 12 Gwen's Take: Washington Press Corps Being Distracted by 'Squirrels!' By Gwen Ifill I loved the movie "Up." I would have given it my Oscar party vote for Best Picture if I hadn't seen (and loved) "The Hurt Locker." But the part of "Up" that makes me laugh out loud every… Continue reading
Mar 12 Obama to Delay International Trip for Final Health Reform Push President Obama will delay his trip to Indonesia, Australia and Guam by three days in order to focus on health care reform, according to a tweet Thursday morning from White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. "The… Continue reading
Mar 12 Friday: Ground Zero Workers Reach Settlement; Obama to Delay Asia Trip More than 10,000 Ground Zero rescue workers made ill by dust and other contaminants left by the collapse of the World Trade Center could receive as much as $657.5 million in damages under a settlement reached with the city… Continue reading
Mar 12 Watch Middle East Tensions Rise over Planned Settlements Israel sealed off the West Bank over fears that its plans to authorize more housing settlements would ignite violence, just as Vice President Joe Biden returned home from a visit meant to kick-start peace talks. Ray Suarez reports. Continue watching
Mar 12 Watch Shields, Brooks: Presidency 'At Risk' in Outcome of Health Reform Effort Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks sort through the top political stories of the past week, including the rift between the White House and the Supreme Court over President Obama's State of the Union and the ongoing negotiations to pass… Continue watching
Mar 11 Ray Suarez: Immigration Reform Takes a Number and Gets in Line Advocates of immigration reform that would create a path to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants in the U.S. were asked to be patient. After the Obama campaign promised comprehensive reform and won by a convincing margin, they… Continue reading
Mar 11 Letters Reveal Public Grief for JFK's Death In the months after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, the public flooded the White House mailbox with 1.5 million condolence letters to then First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. "We loved the President as a father as the father of our… Continue reading
Mar 11 Early Iraqi Election Results Are Split Preliminary results in Iraq's first parliamentary elections since 2003 began to trickle in Thursday, with current Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki leading in two provinces in the south and a secular challenger ahead in two northern provinces. The… Continue reading
Mar 11 Dodd to Unveil Financial Reform Without GOP Support UPDATE 2:45PM: At a news conference Thursday afternoon, Sen. Chris Dodd denied that the political ramifications of reconciliation being used in the health care debate motivated him to push a financial reform bill forward without GOP support. Continue reading