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Archive for March, 2010

Former Reagan And Bush Adviser Supports Obama On Foreign Policy

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, March 31st, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

James Baker who served as Chief of Staff, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State under Presidents Reagan and Bush 41 had some surprisingly supportive words for President Obama:
Former H.W. Bush Secretary of State and White House Chief of Staff James Baker conveyed support for “the overwhelming majority of Barack Obama’s foreign policy agenda” [...]

Another Round Of Terror Attacks In Russia

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, March 31st, 2010. Filed under Foreign Affairs, Russia, War On Terror

Russia woke up this morning to reports of a new round of terror attacks:
MOSCOW — Two explosions killed at least 12 people in the volatile North Caucasus region on Wednesday in what appeared to be attacks targeting the police, investigators from the Russian prosecutor’s office said.
One of the explosions was caused by a suicide bomber [...]

Unnamed Democratic Senator Says Passing ObamaCare Was “Political Folly”

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, March 30th, 2010. Filed under 2010 Elections, Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats, Elections, Health Care Reform, Political Parties, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

So says Howard Fineman:
A Democratic senator I can’t name, who reluctantly voted for the health-care bill out of loyalty to his party and his admiration for Barack Obama, privately complained to me that the measure was political folly, in part because of the way it goes into effect: some taxes first, most benefits later, and [...]

Will The Last Person To Stop Watching CNN Please Turn Out The Lights

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, March 30th, 2010. Filed under Business, Economics, Media, Television

The original cable news network continues it’s ratings free fall:
CNN continued what has become a precipitous decline in ratings for its prime-time programs in the first quarter of 2010, with its main hosts losing almost half their viewers in a year.
The trend in news ratings for the first three months of this year is all [...]

Obama Hands A Gift To Every Republican Running Against Mitt Romney In 2012

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, March 30th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Mitt Romney, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

In his interview with Matt Lauer, President Obama noted that his health care reform plan is similar to the plan that Mitt Romney backed while he was Governor of Massachusetts

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Remember this clip, because you’ll be seeing pieces of it from every candidate running against [...]

Verizon iPhone On The Way ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, March 30th, 2010. Filed under Technology, iPhone

The big rumor today is that Apple is apparently working on a version of the iPhone for Verizon Wireless customers:
HONG KONG/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A subsidiary of Taiwan netbook PC pioneer Asustek has won orders to manufacture Apple’s iPhone to run on the CDMA standard, a source said on Tuesday.
Apple is said to be developing [...]

Large Hadron Collider Collides, Universe Doesn’t End

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, March 30th, 2010. Filed under Science

After a false start this morning, the Large Hadron Collider finally started doing what it was designed to do:
PASADENA, Calif. — After 16 years and $10 billion — and a long morning of electrical groaning and sweating — there was joy in the meadows and tunnels of the Swiss-French countryside Tuesday: the world’s biggest physics [...]

Justice Scalia May Have Already Made The Constitutional Case For Insurance Mandates

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, March 30th, 2010. Filed under Antonin Scalia, Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Supreme Court, U.S. Constitution

I’ve written several posts already about the difficult road that the Constitutional challenges to ObamaCare face in the Federal Courts, but a five year old opinion by the Court’s most conservative Justice could make the challenges even more difficult:
Reporting from Washington – Lawsuits from 14 states challenging the constitutionality of the new national healthcare law [...]

Rand Paul Hit With Sleazy, False Attack Ad Claiming He’s A 9/11 Truther

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, March 30th, 2010. Filed under 2010 Elections, Elections, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Rand Paul, Ron Paul

It didn’t take long after getting Dick Cheney’s endorsement for Trey Grayson to start wallowing in the mud:
Six weeks out from the Kentucky Republican primary for Senate, Secretary of State Trey Grayson and ophthalmologist Rand Paul are in a pitched battle over that most touchy of political subjects: the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Grayson, [...]

Obama Signs Health Care Reconciliation Bill, Takes Over Student Loan Industry

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, March 30th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

Well, the deal is now officially done:
WASHINGTON — Finalizing two major pieces of his agenda, President Barack Obama on Tuesday sealed his health care overhaul and made the government the primary lender to students by cutting banks out of the process.
Both domestic priorities came in one bill, pushed through by Democrats in the House and [...]

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