Oct 18, 2010
In China, Even the Premier Is Censored. By L. Gordon Crovitz
The Wall Street Journal, page A18, Oct 18, 2010
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704300604575554333040567148.html
From the outside, China can seem monolithic, run by Communist Party officials united by the prime directive of maintaining power. But every once in a while splits become visible and remind us that while China may now be the world's second-largest economy, there's a steep price for being a laggard when it comes to the free flow of information.
Consider Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. He has called for political reform several times in recent months, but censors have blocked domestic reporting of his comments. This led to an open letter from 23 well-known Communist Party elders calling for free speech. The letter was posted last week in a blog area of sina.com, one of the country's largest websites, and widely shared before being removed.
This letter is worth attention, both for its authors and its substance. The signatories include a who's who of former Communist Party propagandists, including Li Rui, the former private secretary to Mao Zedong, and retired top editors of the People's Daily (the party's mouthpiece), Xinhua (the official news agency) and the China Daily (the state-run English-language newspaper).
"Retired older officials can speak more loudly," says Xiao Qiang, editor of China Digital Times, a news site based at the University of California, Berkeley. "They can protect the middle-aged people who currently hold the same roles as editors and party propagandists by speaking for them." Mr. Xiao points out that the letter's "rhetoric on political reform is not very different from the language of the Charter 08 document," the freedom manifesto that sent Liu Xiaobo to jail and helped him win this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
The letter notes that the Chinese Constitution claims freedom of speech and the press, but this "formal avowal and concrete denial has become a scandalous mark." It cites a CNN interview earlier this month in which Premier Wen said, "Freedom of speech is indispensable for any nation," and points out the irony that these comments were blocked by domestic media.
"Even the premier of our country does not have freedom of speech or of the press," the party elders write. "If we endeavor to find those responsible, we are utterly incapable of putting our finger on a specific person. This is the work of invisible hands. For their own reasons, they violate our constitution, often ordering by telephone that the works of such and such a person cannot be published, or that such and such an event cannot be reported in the media.
"These invisible hands are our Central Propaganda Department. Right now the department is placed above the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and above the State Council. We would ask, what right does the Central Propaganda Department have to muzzle the speech of the premier? What right does it have to rob the people of our nation of their right to know what the premier has said?"
The party elders note that Britain gave its colony of Hong Kong more freedom than the Communist Party gives China: "The freedom of speech and freedom of the press given to residents of Hong Kong by the British authorities there was not empty, appearing only on paper. It was enacted and realized."
The letter writers appeal to Chinese nationalism: "In countries around the world, the development of the rule of law in news and publishing" long ago replaced censorship, and "this is greatly in the favor of the development of the humanities and natural sciences, and in promoting social harmony and historical progress." They note that "England did away with censorship in 1695. France abolished its censorship system in 1881." This means "our present system of censorship leaves news and book publishing in our country 315 years behind England and 129 years behind France."
By censoring news in recent years about toxic baby formula, the SARS virus and blood centers infected with AIDS, Beijing has encouraged cynicism by its citizens about its own government. Even the elite—even the premier—wonder about their own liberties.
The letter from the party elders reminds us that it's not just dissidents who dissent. "Although most of this letter's signers carried out the party's will during their careers," longtime China watcher and legal scholar Jerome Cohen says, "the letter provides immediate tangible evidence that at least a minority within the elite is bitter and disillusioned." Bao Pu, a Hong Kong-based book publisher whose father was an economic reform leader in Beijing, reports that more than 1,000 people so far have added their names to the letter.
The Communist Party will reform itself when its splits become too wide to cover over. For the outside world, the opportunity is to encourage the growing number of disillusioned cadres who understand that modern countries rely on a free flow of information, for ordinary citizens and their leaders alike.
The Ethanol Bailout - EPA does the industry another big favor
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304772804575558322880140784.html
Savagery in the East - How Stalin and then Hitler turned the borderlands of Eastern Europe into killing fields
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703794104575546611651621270.html
Buying the Senior Vote - Federal President wants $15 billion in checks for grandma
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304772804575558262251869720.html
Statement by Treasury Sec Geithner and Acting Director, Office of Management and Budget, on Budget Results for Fiscal Year 2010
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/tg911.htm
California's Cap-and-Trade War - The battle to repeal a self-destructive climate change law
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703735804575535841904660332.html
White House Council on Women and Girls: A Battle that Takes Place Every Day
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/10/15/a-battle-takes-place-every-day
Why a Foreclosure Moratorium Is a Bad Idea - A special bankruptcy law could help borrowers while letting housing markets clear
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704300604575554050975475486.html
Monday, October 18, 2010
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Press Briefing
Oct 16, 2010
Boehner's K Street Cabinet
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/OFA/gGMzzK
Lies, Damn Lies and the ObamaCare Sales Pitch - The White House's ObamaCare defense is becoming even more frantic and desperate
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704300604575554273700857644.html
Urbanization Policy in an Uncertain Economy. By Allen L. Clark, Meril Dobrin Fujiki, and Mariko Davidson (eds.)
http://www.eastwestcenter.org/publications/search-for-publications/browse-alphabetic-list-of-titles/?class_call=view&mode=view&pub_ID=3559
Christie Is Right About the Hudson River Big Dig - The money might be better spent on New Jersey's roads, which are rated among the worst in the nation
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440004575548280684121298.html
The New START Treaty. By Marcie B. Ries, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance. Remarks by Delegation of the United States of America to the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly. New York City, October 15, 2010
http://www.state.gov/t/avc/rls/149534.htm
Arnold's Last Hurrah - A modest pension victory amid the overall triumph of Sacramento
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704657304575539830526815218.html
Advanced Nuclear Non-Proliferation: Peaceful Uses Initiative
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/scp/fs/2010/149511.htm
Why Liberals Don't Get the Tea Party Movement. By Peter Berkowitz
Our universities haven't taught much political history for decades. No wonder so many progressives have disdain for the principles that animated the Federalist debates.
WSJ, Oct 16, 2010
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575531913602803980.html
Highly educated people say the darndest things, these days particularly about the tea party movement. Vast numbers of other highly educated people read and hear these dubious pronouncements, smile knowingly, and nod their heads in agreement. University educations and advanced degrees notwithstanding, they lack a basic understanding of the contours of American constitutional government.
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman got the ball rolling in April 2009, just ahead of the first major tea party rallies on April 15, by falsely asserting that "the tea parties don't represent a spontaneous outpouring of public sentiment. They're AstroTurf (fake grass-roots) events."
Having learned next to nothing in the intervening 16 months about one of the most spectacular grass-roots political movements in American history, fellow Times columnist Frank Rich denied in August of this year that the tea party movement is "spontaneous and leaderless," insisting instead that it is the instrument of billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch.
Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne criticized the tea party as unrepresentative in two ways. It "constitutes a sliver of opinion on the extreme end of politics receiving attention out of all proportion with its numbers," he asserted last month. This was a step back from his rash prediction five months before that since it "represents a relatively small minority of Americans on the right end of politics," the tea party movement "will not determine the outcome of the 2010 elections."
In February, Mr. Dionne argued that the tea party was also unrepresentative because it reflected a political principle that lost out at America's founding and deserves to be permanently retired: "Anti-statism, a profound mistrust of power in Washington goes all the way back to the Anti-Federalists who opposed the Constitution itself because they saw it concentrating too much authority in the central government."
Mr. Dionne follows in the footsteps of progressive historian Richard Hofstadter, whose influential 1964 book "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" argued that Barry Goldwater and his supporters displayed a "style of mind" characterized by "heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy." Similarly, the "suspicion of government" that the tea party movement shares with the Anti-Federalists, Mr. Dionne maintained, "is not amenable to 'facts'" because "opposing government is a matter of principle."
To be sure, the tea party sports its share of clowns, kooks and creeps. And some of its favored candidates and loudest voices have made embarrassing statements and embraced reckless policies. This, however, does not distinguish the tea party movement from the competition.
Born in response to President Obama's self-declared desire to fundamentally change America, the tea party movement has made its central goals abundantly clear. Activists and the sizeable swath of voters who sympathize with them want to reduce the massively ballooning national debt, cut runaway federal spending, keep taxes in check, reinvigorate the economy, and block the expansion of the state into citizens' lives.
In other words, the tea party movement is inspired above all by a commitment to limited government. And that does distinguish it from the competition.
But far from reflecting a recurring pathology in our politics or the losing side in the debate over the Constitution, the devotion to limited government lies at the heart of the American experiment in liberal democracy. The Federalists who won ratification of the Constitution—most notably Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay—shared with their Anti-Federalist opponents the view that centralized power presented a formidable and abiding threat to the individual liberty that it was government's primary task to secure. They differed over how to deal with the threat.
The Anti-Federalists—including Patrick Henry, Samuel Bryan and Robert Yates—adopted the traditional view that liberty depended on state power exercised in close proximity to the people. The Federalists replied in Federalist 9 that the "science of politics," which had "received great improvement," showed that in an extended and properly structured republic liberty could be achieved and with greater security and stability.
This improved science of politics was based not on abstract theory or complex calculations but on what is referred to in Federalist 51 as "inventions of prudence" grounded in the reading of classic and modern authors, broad experience of self-government in the colonies, and acute observations about the imperfections and finer points of human nature. It taught that constitutionally enumerated powers; a separation, balance, and blending of these powers among branches of the federal government; and a distribution of powers between the federal and state governments would operate to leave substantial authority to the states while both preventing abuses by the federal government and providing it with the energy needed to defend liberty.
Whether members have read much or little of The Federalist, the tea party movement's focus on keeping government within bounds and answerable to the people reflects the devotion to limited government embodied in the Constitution. One reason this is poorly understood among our best educated citizens is that American politics is poorly taught at the universities that credentialed them. Indeed, even as the tea party calls for the return to constitutional basics, our universities neglect The Federalist and its classic exposition of constitutional principles.
For the better part of two generations, the best political science departments have concentrated on equipping students with skills for performing empirical research and teaching mathematical models that purport to describe political affairs. Meanwhile, leading history departments have emphasized social history and issues of race, class and gender at the expense of constitutional history, diplomatic history and military history.
Neither professors of political science nor of history have made a priority of instructing students in the founding principles of American constitutional government. Nor have they taught about the contest between the progressive vision and the conservative vision that has characterized American politics since Woodrow Wilson (then a political scientist at Princeton) helped launch the progressive movement in the late 19th century by arguing that the Constitution had become obsolete and hindered democratic reform.
Then there are the proliferating classes in practical ethics and moral reasoning. These expose students to hypothetical conundrums involving individuals in surreal circumstances suddenly facing life and death decisions, or present contentious public policy questions and explore the range of respectable progressive opinions for resolving them. Such exercises may sharpen students' ability to argue. They do little to teach about self-government.
They certainly do not teach about the virtues, or qualities of mind and character, that enable citizens to shoulder their political responsibilities and prosper amidst the opportunities and uncertainties that freedom brings. Nor do they teach the beliefs, practices and associations that foster such virtues and those that endanger them.
Those who doubt that the failings of higher education in America have political consequences need only reflect on the quality of progressive commentary on the tea party movement. Our universities have produced two generations of highly educated people who seem unable to recognize the spirited defense of fundamental American principles, even when it takes place for more than a year and a half right in front of their noses.
Mr. Berkowitz is a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution.
Remarks to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Women's Entrepreneurship Summit
http://www.state.gov/s/gwi/rls/rem/2010/149525.htm
What Bernanke Didn't Say - The dollar? Someone else's problem
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704300604575554220786642124.html
Debt-For-Nature Agreement to Conserve Costa Rica’s Forests
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/tg908.htm
Currency Chaos: Where Do We Go From Here? - Mundell: 'The most important initiative you could take to improve the world economy would be to stabilize the dollar-euro rate'
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704361504575552481963474898.html
Federal President's Weekly Address: Washington Republicans "Rewarding Corporations That Create Jobs and Profits Overseas"
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/10/16/weekly-address-president-obama-washington-republicans-rewarding-corporat
A Real Vaccine Scare - Lawsuits, autism and the Supreme Court
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440004575548470924781864.html
Adrian Fenty and Michelle Rhee: We fought for D.C. schools. Now it's up to you.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/15/AR2010101502701.html
Myron Scholes on Whether QE2 Will Work
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/10/15/guest-contribution-myron-scholes-on-whether-qe2-will-work/
Boehner's K Street Cabinet
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/OFA/gGMzzK
Lies, Damn Lies and the ObamaCare Sales Pitch - The White House's ObamaCare defense is becoming even more frantic and desperate
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704300604575554273700857644.html
Urbanization Policy in an Uncertain Economy. By Allen L. Clark, Meril Dobrin Fujiki, and Mariko Davidson (eds.)
http://www.eastwestcenter.org/publications/search-for-publications/browse-alphabetic-list-of-titles/?class_call=view&mode=view&pub_ID=3559
Christie Is Right About the Hudson River Big Dig - The money might be better spent on New Jersey's roads, which are rated among the worst in the nation
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440004575548280684121298.html
The New START Treaty. By Marcie B. Ries, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance. Remarks by Delegation of the United States of America to the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly. New York City, October 15, 2010
http://www.state.gov/t/avc/rls/149534.htm
Arnold's Last Hurrah - A modest pension victory amid the overall triumph of Sacramento
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704657304575539830526815218.html
Advanced Nuclear Non-Proliferation: Peaceful Uses Initiative
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/scp/fs/2010/149511.htm
Why Liberals Don't Get the Tea Party Movement. By Peter Berkowitz
Our universities haven't taught much political history for decades. No wonder so many progressives have disdain for the principles that animated the Federalist debates.
WSJ, Oct 16, 2010
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575531913602803980.html
Highly educated people say the darndest things, these days particularly about the tea party movement. Vast numbers of other highly educated people read and hear these dubious pronouncements, smile knowingly, and nod their heads in agreement. University educations and advanced degrees notwithstanding, they lack a basic understanding of the contours of American constitutional government.
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman got the ball rolling in April 2009, just ahead of the first major tea party rallies on April 15, by falsely asserting that "the tea parties don't represent a spontaneous outpouring of public sentiment. They're AstroTurf (fake grass-roots) events."
Having learned next to nothing in the intervening 16 months about one of the most spectacular grass-roots political movements in American history, fellow Times columnist Frank Rich denied in August of this year that the tea party movement is "spontaneous and leaderless," insisting instead that it is the instrument of billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch.
Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne criticized the tea party as unrepresentative in two ways. It "constitutes a sliver of opinion on the extreme end of politics receiving attention out of all proportion with its numbers," he asserted last month. This was a step back from his rash prediction five months before that since it "represents a relatively small minority of Americans on the right end of politics," the tea party movement "will not determine the outcome of the 2010 elections."
In February, Mr. Dionne argued that the tea party was also unrepresentative because it reflected a political principle that lost out at America's founding and deserves to be permanently retired: "Anti-statism, a profound mistrust of power in Washington goes all the way back to the Anti-Federalists who opposed the Constitution itself because they saw it concentrating too much authority in the central government."
Mr. Dionne follows in the footsteps of progressive historian Richard Hofstadter, whose influential 1964 book "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" argued that Barry Goldwater and his supporters displayed a "style of mind" characterized by "heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy." Similarly, the "suspicion of government" that the tea party movement shares with the Anti-Federalists, Mr. Dionne maintained, "is not amenable to 'facts'" because "opposing government is a matter of principle."
To be sure, the tea party sports its share of clowns, kooks and creeps. And some of its favored candidates and loudest voices have made embarrassing statements and embraced reckless policies. This, however, does not distinguish the tea party movement from the competition.
Born in response to President Obama's self-declared desire to fundamentally change America, the tea party movement has made its central goals abundantly clear. Activists and the sizeable swath of voters who sympathize with them want to reduce the massively ballooning national debt, cut runaway federal spending, keep taxes in check, reinvigorate the economy, and block the expansion of the state into citizens' lives.
In other words, the tea party movement is inspired above all by a commitment to limited government. And that does distinguish it from the competition.
But far from reflecting a recurring pathology in our politics or the losing side in the debate over the Constitution, the devotion to limited government lies at the heart of the American experiment in liberal democracy. The Federalists who won ratification of the Constitution—most notably Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay—shared with their Anti-Federalist opponents the view that centralized power presented a formidable and abiding threat to the individual liberty that it was government's primary task to secure. They differed over how to deal with the threat.
The Anti-Federalists—including Patrick Henry, Samuel Bryan and Robert Yates—adopted the traditional view that liberty depended on state power exercised in close proximity to the people. The Federalists replied in Federalist 9 that the "science of politics," which had "received great improvement," showed that in an extended and properly structured republic liberty could be achieved and with greater security and stability.
This improved science of politics was based not on abstract theory or complex calculations but on what is referred to in Federalist 51 as "inventions of prudence" grounded in the reading of classic and modern authors, broad experience of self-government in the colonies, and acute observations about the imperfections and finer points of human nature. It taught that constitutionally enumerated powers; a separation, balance, and blending of these powers among branches of the federal government; and a distribution of powers between the federal and state governments would operate to leave substantial authority to the states while both preventing abuses by the federal government and providing it with the energy needed to defend liberty.
Whether members have read much or little of The Federalist, the tea party movement's focus on keeping government within bounds and answerable to the people reflects the devotion to limited government embodied in the Constitution. One reason this is poorly understood among our best educated citizens is that American politics is poorly taught at the universities that credentialed them. Indeed, even as the tea party calls for the return to constitutional basics, our universities neglect The Federalist and its classic exposition of constitutional principles.
For the better part of two generations, the best political science departments have concentrated on equipping students with skills for performing empirical research and teaching mathematical models that purport to describe political affairs. Meanwhile, leading history departments have emphasized social history and issues of race, class and gender at the expense of constitutional history, diplomatic history and military history.
Neither professors of political science nor of history have made a priority of instructing students in the founding principles of American constitutional government. Nor have they taught about the contest between the progressive vision and the conservative vision that has characterized American politics since Woodrow Wilson (then a political scientist at Princeton) helped launch the progressive movement in the late 19th century by arguing that the Constitution had become obsolete and hindered democratic reform.
Then there are the proliferating classes in practical ethics and moral reasoning. These expose students to hypothetical conundrums involving individuals in surreal circumstances suddenly facing life and death decisions, or present contentious public policy questions and explore the range of respectable progressive opinions for resolving them. Such exercises may sharpen students' ability to argue. They do little to teach about self-government.
They certainly do not teach about the virtues, or qualities of mind and character, that enable citizens to shoulder their political responsibilities and prosper amidst the opportunities and uncertainties that freedom brings. Nor do they teach the beliefs, practices and associations that foster such virtues and those that endanger them.
Those who doubt that the failings of higher education in America have political consequences need only reflect on the quality of progressive commentary on the tea party movement. Our universities have produced two generations of highly educated people who seem unable to recognize the spirited defense of fundamental American principles, even when it takes place for more than a year and a half right in front of their noses.
Mr. Berkowitz is a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution.
Remarks to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Women's Entrepreneurship Summit
http://www.state.gov/s/gwi/rls/rem/2010/149525.htm
What Bernanke Didn't Say - The dollar? Someone else's problem
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704300604575554220786642124.html
Debt-For-Nature Agreement to Conserve Costa Rica’s Forests
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/tg908.htm
Currency Chaos: Where Do We Go From Here? - Mundell: 'The most important initiative you could take to improve the world economy would be to stabilize the dollar-euro rate'
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704361504575552481963474898.html
Federal President's Weekly Address: Washington Republicans "Rewarding Corporations That Create Jobs and Profits Overseas"
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/10/16/weekly-address-president-obama-washington-republicans-rewarding-corporat
A Real Vaccine Scare - Lawsuits, autism and the Supreme Court
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440004575548470924781864.html
Adrian Fenty and Michelle Rhee: We fought for D.C. schools. Now it's up to you.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/15/AR2010101502701.html
Myron Scholes on Whether QE2 Will Work
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/10/15/guest-contribution-myron-scholes-on-whether-qe2-will-work/
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Press Briefing
Oct 15, 2010
State Dept: Advancing Sustainable Agriculture Through the Committee on World Food Security
http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/site/entry/agriculture_committee_food_security
Poll conducted by the Democratic-leaning firm of Penn, Schoen & Berland: 44% of likely voters in districts "say the Democratic Party is more dominated by its extreme elements," 37% say the same about the GOP http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704361504575552190679905162.html
In The NYT Magazine: Education of a President
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/magazine/17obama-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Voters on ObamaCare: Informed and Opposed - A new poll shows that opposition to the individual mandate is intense
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703673604575549700366382866.html
The U.S. National Space Policy, International Cooperation and the Pursuit of TCBMs
http://www.state.gov/t/avc/rls/149491.htm
The Education of Barney Frank - The benefits of a competitive election
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704361504575552371822314694.html
THE PATH TO GLOBAL RECOVERY: A CONVERSATION WITH THE TREASURY SECRETARY TIMOTHY GEITHNER
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/events/2010/1006_global_recovery/20100610_geithner.pdf
ObamaCare in Court - A Florida judge allows the major state lawsuit to proceed to trial
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704361504575552490899677152.html
The U.S.-European Relationship: Global Challenges and International Economic Architecture
http://www.state.gov/e/rls/rmk/2010/149421.htm
Liberalism and Public Works - Entitlement politics leaves little money for roads and tunnels
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440004575548382097688038.html
Re: The Geopolitics of Emotion
http://themoornextdoor.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/re-the-geopolitics-of-emotion/
Stop Bashing Business, Mr. President - If we tried to start The Home Depot today, it's a stone cold certainty that it would never have gotten off the ground
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704361504575552080488297188.html
US Pledges Additional $1 Million to Help Displaced Afghans in Pakistan and Their Host Communities
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/10/149481.htm
Republicans appear poised for major gains in the Midwest, a region dominated by the president in 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440004575547922554350844.html
State Dept: Advancing Sustainable Agriculture Through the Committee on World Food Security
http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/site/entry/agriculture_committee_food_security
Poll conducted by the Democratic-leaning firm of Penn, Schoen & Berland: 44% of likely voters in districts "say the Democratic Party is more dominated by its extreme elements," 37% say the same about the GOP http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704361504575552190679905162.html
In The NYT Magazine: Education of a President
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/magazine/17obama-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Voters on ObamaCare: Informed and Opposed - A new poll shows that opposition to the individual mandate is intense
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703673604575549700366382866.html
The U.S. National Space Policy, International Cooperation and the Pursuit of TCBMs
http://www.state.gov/t/avc/rls/149491.htm
The Education of Barney Frank - The benefits of a competitive election
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704361504575552371822314694.html
THE PATH TO GLOBAL RECOVERY: A CONVERSATION WITH THE TREASURY SECRETARY TIMOTHY GEITHNER
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/events/2010/1006_global_recovery/20100610_geithner.pdf
ObamaCare in Court - A Florida judge allows the major state lawsuit to proceed to trial
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704361504575552490899677152.html
The U.S.-European Relationship: Global Challenges and International Economic Architecture
http://www.state.gov/e/rls/rmk/2010/149421.htm
Liberalism and Public Works - Entitlement politics leaves little money for roads and tunnels
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440004575548382097688038.html
Re: The Geopolitics of Emotion
http://themoornextdoor.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/re-the-geopolitics-of-emotion/
Stop Bashing Business, Mr. President - If we tried to start The Home Depot today, it's a stone cold certainty that it would never have gotten off the ground
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704361504575552080488297188.html
US Pledges Additional $1 Million to Help Displaced Afghans in Pakistan and Their Host Communities
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/10/149481.htm
Republicans appear poised for major gains in the Midwest, a region dominated by the president in 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440004575547922554350844.html
Press Briefing
Oct 15, 2010
Organizing for America: See the Progress in Your Community
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/joshcohen/gGMzkf
China’s Auto Boom and Oil Strategy
http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2010/10/14/chinas-auto-boom-and-oil-strategy/
Democrats: Moving America Forward
http://progress.democrats.org/
Side Effects: How Government Micromanagement Could Discourage Access to Some Preventive Services
http://fixhealthcarepolicy.com/research/side-effects-how-government-micromanagement-could-discourage-access-to-some-preventive-services
Organizing for America: See the Progress in Your Community
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/joshcohen/gGMzkf
China’s Auto Boom and Oil Strategy
http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2010/10/14/chinas-auto-boom-and-oil-strategy/
Democrats: Moving America Forward
http://progress.democrats.org/
Side Effects: How Government Micromanagement Could Discourage Access to Some Preventive Services
http://fixhealthcarepolicy.com/research/side-effects-how-government-micromanagement-could-discourage-access-to-some-preventive-services
Press Briefing
Oct 14, 2010
Culture Evolves Slowly, Falls Apart Quickly
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/10/evolution-of-culture/
White House - What Health Reform Means for African Americans
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/10/13/what-health-reform-means-african-americans
The Peace Prize's Subversive Potential - The Soviet Union faced pressure after Andrei Sakharov won the Nobel in 1975. Now it's China's turn.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440004575548443161394272.html
Sec Clinton: Townterview with Students, Women Leaders, and Members of Civil Society
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/10/149411.htm
Education Reform Setback - Washington, D.C. shows its maverick schools chancellor the door
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703673604575550113203121580.html
Under Secretary Maria Otero Highlights New Partnership on Safe Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Education for Schools in Developing Countries
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/10/149413.htm
The Election Gong Show - Federal President fails to speak up against antitrade, anti-China campaigning.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440004575548082194712758.html
White House - What You Missed: Tuesday Talk with Elizabeth Warren
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/10/13/what-you-missed-tuesday-talk-with-elizabeth-warren
How to Reform ObamaCare Starting Now - States should steer the mandated health-insurance exchanges in a pro-market direction and dare Washington to stop them
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704116004575521770685906984.html
Press Roundtable at U.S. Embassy in Cairo
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/rm/2010/149382.htm
The president says secret foreign money might steal the election. He's not even fooling the New York Times
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703673604575550180126192598.html
Transatlantic Missile Defense: Looking to the NATO Lisbon Summit
http://www.state.gov/t/avc/rls/149360.htm
Susan Dunn has written an engaging story of bare - knuck led political treachery that pits a president at the peak of his popularity against entrenched congressional leaders who didn't like where he was taking the country and their party. FDR tried to use the power of the White House, and his personality, to run his opponents out of the Democratic Party. He failed miserably.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575532371905049074.html
Culture Evolves Slowly, Falls Apart Quickly
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/10/evolution-of-culture/
White House - What Health Reform Means for African Americans
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/10/13/what-health-reform-means-african-americans
The Peace Prize's Subversive Potential - The Soviet Union faced pressure after Andrei Sakharov won the Nobel in 1975. Now it's China's turn.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440004575548443161394272.html
Sec Clinton: Townterview with Students, Women Leaders, and Members of Civil Society
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/10/149411.htm
Education Reform Setback - Washington, D.C. shows its maverick schools chancellor the door
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703673604575550113203121580.html
Under Secretary Maria Otero Highlights New Partnership on Safe Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Education for Schools in Developing Countries
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/10/149413.htm
The Election Gong Show - Federal President fails to speak up against antitrade, anti-China campaigning.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440004575548082194712758.html
White House - What You Missed: Tuesday Talk with Elizabeth Warren
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/10/13/what-you-missed-tuesday-talk-with-elizabeth-warren
How to Reform ObamaCare Starting Now - States should steer the mandated health-insurance exchanges in a pro-market direction and dare Washington to stop them
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704116004575521770685906984.html
Press Roundtable at U.S. Embassy in Cairo
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/rm/2010/149382.htm
The president says secret foreign money might steal the election. He's not even fooling the New York Times
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703673604575550180126192598.html
Transatlantic Missile Defense: Looking to the NATO Lisbon Summit
http://www.state.gov/t/avc/rls/149360.htm
Susan Dunn has written an engaging story of bare - knuck led political treachery that pits a president at the peak of his popularity against entrenched congressional leaders who didn't like where he was taking the country and their party. FDR tried to use the power of the White House, and his personality, to run his opponents out of the Democratic Party. He failed miserably.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575532371905049074.html
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Press Briefing
Oct 13, 2010
Abducted and Tortured for Reporting the News — 'This is the consequence of writing against the government,' my captors said
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703794104575545914180906100.html
A new CNN poll shows that people are becoming more nostalgic for the Bush years
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440004575548130895975438.html
Under Secretary Brainard Remarks at the Institute of International Bankers' Regulatory Dialogue with Government Officials
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/tg903.htm
How to avoid another Alan Hevesi: turn defined benefit retirement plans into 401(k)-style defined contribution plans
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704657304575540292781704692.html
Four Governors on How to Cut Spending - How they are coping and how they plan to save money in the future
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882404575520221102889934.html
Liberating the Gulf - But a drilling ban persists by other means
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440004575548454110320976.html
Organizing for America's John Pyrch: Step 2
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/johnpyrch/gGMz2N
A Growth Agenda for America - An economy grows through increased production, which is financed by capital or savings. Congress can encourage this process with the right tax reform.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440004575548172409030684.html
Final paper on supervisory colleges issued by the Basel Committee
http://www.bis.org/press/p101012.htm
Political Target Practice - A case study in what Democrats really mean by campaign 'disclosure' http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704696304575538402294440806.html
Vote 2010 Update with Michelle Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVF6c01fqys
The 2010 Spending Record - In two years, a 21.4% increase
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703358504575544351734226956.html
Secretary Clinton Travel Diary: Sec Clinton Dedicates New Embassy Compound and Robert C. Frasure Street
http://bit.ly/96Ioh0
Obama and the Politics of Outsourcing - For every job outsourced to Bangalore, nearly two jobs are created in Buffalo or other American cities
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704696304575537983245805688.html
Activists Have Nothing to Say to Grand Jury | By Elizabeth DiNovella
http://t.co/pRZuEVh
Europe the Intolerant - The continent's progressive image is a fabrication of the American liberal mind
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704696304575537950006608746.html
President Obama: Attend a Vote 2010 House Party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws-l38SSqg8
Obamacare vs. the Rule of Law
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/10/07/obamacare-vs-the-rule-of-law
David Plouffe Obama Campaign Update: October 12, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD_Ck5g1pmE
Hope and Change - The politics of uplift and inspiration, 2010
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703794104575546470217381134.html
U.S. Positions at the Annual Meeting of the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly
http://www.state.gov/t/avc/rls/149293.htm
Boehner's 'Plan B' for ObamaCare - Hearings can be used to sell market-friendly fixes
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703794104575546230578804328.html
Are Humans Genetically Disposed to Be Statists?
http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/are-humans-genetically-disposed-to-be-statists
Pakistan Is Not America's Enemy - A sustained U.S.-Pakistani partnership after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan could have produced a very different history than the one we wrestle with today
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703358504575544092642205742.html
If You Cant Beat Them, Silence Them
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/10/11/morning-bell-if-you-cant-beat-them-silence-them
Abducted and Tortured for Reporting the News — 'This is the consequence of writing against the government,' my captors said
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703794104575545914180906100.html
A new CNN poll shows that people are becoming more nostalgic for the Bush years
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440004575548130895975438.html
Under Secretary Brainard Remarks at the Institute of International Bankers' Regulatory Dialogue with Government Officials
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/tg903.htm
How to avoid another Alan Hevesi: turn defined benefit retirement plans into 401(k)-style defined contribution plans
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704657304575540292781704692.html
Four Governors on How to Cut Spending - How they are coping and how they plan to save money in the future
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882404575520221102889934.html
Liberating the Gulf - But a drilling ban persists by other means
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440004575548454110320976.html
Organizing for America's John Pyrch: Step 2
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/johnpyrch/gGMz2N
A Growth Agenda for America - An economy grows through increased production, which is financed by capital or savings. Congress can encourage this process with the right tax reform.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440004575548172409030684.html
Final paper on supervisory colleges issued by the Basel Committee
http://www.bis.org/press/p101012.htm
Political Target Practice - A case study in what Democrats really mean by campaign 'disclosure' http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704696304575538402294440806.html
Vote 2010 Update with Michelle Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVF6c01fqys
The 2010 Spending Record - In two years, a 21.4% increase
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703358504575544351734226956.html
Secretary Clinton Travel Diary: Sec Clinton Dedicates New Embassy Compound and Robert C. Frasure Street
http://bit.ly/96Ioh0
Obama and the Politics of Outsourcing - For every job outsourced to Bangalore, nearly two jobs are created in Buffalo or other American cities
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704696304575537983245805688.html
Activists Have Nothing to Say to Grand Jury | By Elizabeth DiNovella
http://t.co/pRZuEVh
Europe the Intolerant - The continent's progressive image is a fabrication of the American liberal mind
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704696304575537950006608746.html
President Obama: Attend a Vote 2010 House Party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws-l38SSqg8
Obamacare vs. the Rule of Law
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/10/07/obamacare-vs-the-rule-of-law
David Plouffe Obama Campaign Update: October 12, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD_Ck5g1pmE
Hope and Change - The politics of uplift and inspiration, 2010
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703794104575546470217381134.html
U.S. Positions at the Annual Meeting of the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly
http://www.state.gov/t/avc/rls/149293.htm
Boehner's 'Plan B' for ObamaCare - Hearings can be used to sell market-friendly fixes
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703794104575546230578804328.html
Are Humans Genetically Disposed to Be Statists?
http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/are-humans-genetically-disposed-to-be-statists
Pakistan Is Not America's Enemy - A sustained U.S.-Pakistani partnership after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan could have produced a very different history than the one we wrestle with today
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703358504575544092642205742.html
If You Cant Beat Them, Silence Them
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/10/11/morning-bell-if-you-cant-beat-them-silence-them
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Press Briefing
Oct 11, 2010
White House blog post on the struggles of LGBT youth
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/10/09/it-gets-better
The Fed Compounds Its Mistakes - Talk of increasing inflation to reduce unemployment is dangerous and unnecessary
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704696304575538532260290528.html
USAID Assistance in Pakistan
http://blogs.state.gov/ap/index.php/site/entry/usaid_assistance_in_pakistan
Shootout at the EPA Corral - Texas takes aim at the White House's illegal carbon rules
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704696304575538834180153298.html
The Economics of Drug Violence - Competition in the narcotics trade is preferable to monopolistic syndicates
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704657304575540502615107046.html
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: In Holland, Free Speech on Trial
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704657304575539872944767984.html
Remarks at Afghanistan Minerals Roadshow
http://www.state.gov/e/rls/rmk/2010/149240.htm
Shutting Up Business - Democrats unleash the IRS and Justice on donors to their political opponents
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703735804575536370151720874.html
Enduring Leadership: Marshall's Legacy For American Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century
http://www.state.gov/r/remarks/2010/149208.htm
MIRACLE: California’s Air Becomes 340% Cleaner Overnight
http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2010/10/08/miracle-california%E2%80%99s-air-becomes-340-cleaner-overnight/
Geithner in Sunday's Washington Post: ‘Five Myths about Tarp’
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/tg900.htm
Afghanistan must embrace women's rights
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/08/AR2010100806343.html
Remarks to the International Youth Foundation's 20th Anniversary Reception
http://www.state.gov/g/149203.htm
A Nobel Vision of a Better China - With Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, China's pro-democracy movement may finally have found its leader
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704657304575539513894444800.html
Technology = Salvation - An early investor in Facebook on the subprime crisis and why American ingenuity has hit a dead end
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704696304575537882643165738.html
The Politics of Foreclosure - Washington's latest obstacle to a housing market recovery
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704696304575538440995389092.html
White House blog post on the struggles of LGBT youth
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/10/09/it-gets-better
The Fed Compounds Its Mistakes - Talk of increasing inflation to reduce unemployment is dangerous and unnecessary
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704696304575538532260290528.html
USAID Assistance in Pakistan
http://blogs.state.gov/ap/index.php/site/entry/usaid_assistance_in_pakistan
Shootout at the EPA Corral - Texas takes aim at the White House's illegal carbon rules
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704696304575538834180153298.html
The Economics of Drug Violence - Competition in the narcotics trade is preferable to monopolistic syndicates
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704657304575540502615107046.html
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: In Holland, Free Speech on Trial
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704657304575539872944767984.html
Remarks at Afghanistan Minerals Roadshow
http://www.state.gov/e/rls/rmk/2010/149240.htm
Shutting Up Business - Democrats unleash the IRS and Justice on donors to their political opponents
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703735804575536370151720874.html
Enduring Leadership: Marshall's Legacy For American Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century
http://www.state.gov/r/remarks/2010/149208.htm
MIRACLE: California’s Air Becomes 340% Cleaner Overnight
http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2010/10/08/miracle-california%E2%80%99s-air-becomes-340-cleaner-overnight/
Geithner in Sunday's Washington Post: ‘Five Myths about Tarp’
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/tg900.htm
Afghanistan must embrace women's rights
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/08/AR2010100806343.html
Remarks to the International Youth Foundation's 20th Anniversary Reception
http://www.state.gov/g/149203.htm
A Nobel Vision of a Better China - With Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, China's pro-democracy movement may finally have found its leader
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704657304575539513894444800.html
Technology = Salvation - An early investor in Facebook on the subprime crisis and why American ingenuity has hit a dead end
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704696304575537882643165738.html
The Politics of Foreclosure - Washington's latest obstacle to a housing market recovery
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704696304575538440995389092.html
Friday, October 8, 2010
Press Briefing
Oct 08, 2010
The Employment Situation in September
http://goo.gl/fb/RwtVK
Tibetans Find Freedom in Exile - Since the Dalai Lama's expulsion in 1959, India has become home to at least 120,000
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703843804575534372072487894.html
New Patterns of Investment in the Global Economy: Implications for U.S. Leadership
http://www.state.gov/e/rls/rmk/2010/149187.htm
The U.S. Will Lose a China Trade War - Washington can't afford a weak-dollar policy. The only thing standing between the U.S. and a Greek-style sovereign debt crisis is the dollar's status as the global currency.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703843804575534423508502744.html
Update: U.S. Response to Pakistan's Flooding Disaster
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/10/149190.htm
Missed Trade Opportunity - The European Union capitalizes on U.S. protectionism -- South Korea Free Trade Agreement
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703735804575536972846474404.html
Community of Democracies Informal Ministerial Meeting
http://www.state.gov/g/149154.htm
The 'Limited Inflationists' - Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his QE Street Band
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703735804575535791390597042.html
Remarks at the Trygve Lie Symposium on Business and Human Rights
http://www.state.gov/g/149150.htm
Murdoch: Unless we measure success by how children perform, we'll have higher standards for pop stars than public schools
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704696304575538080168519658.html
How to Contain Radical Islam: Lessons from South Asia
http://www.eastwestcenter.org/publications/search-for-publications/browse-alphabetic-list-of-titles/?class_call=view&pub_ID=3565&mode=view
How a Bagram Detainee Foiled the Euro Terror Plot - The plan was disrupted because we were lucky enough to have the key witness in detention. It's a shame we didn't try to extract similar intelligence from Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703735804575536502486233766.html
Using Functional Populations to Create More Realistic Simulations
http://www.idga.org/article.cfm?externalid=3294
Revolt of the Accountants - Washington is turning America into Paperwork Nation
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704696304575538502008810226.html
Remarks for Launch of Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health
http://www.state.gov/g/149152.htm
Obama's Energy-Policy Goals Versus China's
http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2010/10/07/obama%e2%80%99s-energy-policy-goals-versus-china%e2%80%99s/
China's Ambitions in the South China Sea
http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apb071.pdf
Side Effects: Obamacare Compels More Employers to Dump Coverage
http://fixhealthcarepolicy.com/in-the-news/side-effects-obamacare-compels-more-employers-to-dump-coverage
The Protectionist Instinct - Political support for free trade is a remarkable achievement of civic education—one threatened by our weak economy
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575531720311339894.html
Will Growing Government Debt Undermine the American Dream? The Implications of Mounting Federal Debt and Spending for the Debt-Paying Generation
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/09/Will-Growing-Government-Debt-Undermine-the-American-Dream
The Employment Situation in September
http://goo.gl/fb/RwtVK
Tibetans Find Freedom in Exile - Since the Dalai Lama's expulsion in 1959, India has become home to at least 120,000
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703843804575534372072487894.html
New Patterns of Investment in the Global Economy: Implications for U.S. Leadership
http://www.state.gov/e/rls/rmk/2010/149187.htm
The U.S. Will Lose a China Trade War - Washington can't afford a weak-dollar policy. The only thing standing between the U.S. and a Greek-style sovereign debt crisis is the dollar's status as the global currency.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703843804575534423508502744.html
Update: U.S. Response to Pakistan's Flooding Disaster
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/10/149190.htm
Missed Trade Opportunity - The European Union capitalizes on U.S. protectionism -- South Korea Free Trade Agreement
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703735804575536972846474404.html
Community of Democracies Informal Ministerial Meeting
http://www.state.gov/g/149154.htm
The 'Limited Inflationists' - Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his QE Street Band
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703735804575535791390597042.html
Remarks at the Trygve Lie Symposium on Business and Human Rights
http://www.state.gov/g/149150.htm
Murdoch: Unless we measure success by how children perform, we'll have higher standards for pop stars than public schools
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704696304575538080168519658.html
How to Contain Radical Islam: Lessons from South Asia
http://www.eastwestcenter.org/publications/search-for-publications/browse-alphabetic-list-of-titles/?class_call=view&pub_ID=3565&mode=view
How a Bagram Detainee Foiled the Euro Terror Plot - The plan was disrupted because we were lucky enough to have the key witness in detention. It's a shame we didn't try to extract similar intelligence from Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703735804575536502486233766.html
Using Functional Populations to Create More Realistic Simulations
http://www.idga.org/article.cfm?externalid=3294
Revolt of the Accountants - Washington is turning America into Paperwork Nation
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704696304575538502008810226.html
Remarks for Launch of Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health
http://www.state.gov/g/149152.htm
Obama's Energy-Policy Goals Versus China's
http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2010/10/07/obama%e2%80%99s-energy-policy-goals-versus-china%e2%80%99s/
China's Ambitions in the South China Sea
http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apb071.pdf
Side Effects: Obamacare Compels More Employers to Dump Coverage
http://fixhealthcarepolicy.com/in-the-news/side-effects-obamacare-compels-more-employers-to-dump-coverage
The Protectionist Instinct - Political support for free trade is a remarkable achievement of civic education—one threatened by our weak economy
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575531720311339894.html
Will Growing Government Debt Undermine the American Dream? The Implications of Mounting Federal Debt and Spending for the Debt-Paying Generation
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/09/Will-Growing-Government-Debt-Undermine-the-American-Dream
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Press Briefing
Oct 07, 2010
The Obama Administration's Support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/10/149074.htm
Geithner's 'Cooperation' - Dollar devaluation is not economic leadership
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703735804575536453177817206.html
Secretary of Treasury Timothy F. Geithner Remarks at the Brookings Institution
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/tg894.htm
Toward a New American Century - Immigration reform, investments in human capital, and a saner housing policy can help restore U.S. economic leadership
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575531894174441102.html
Fighting Back Against Arbitrary Government Rule
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/10/06/morning-bell-fighting-back-against-arbitrary-government-rule
ObamaCare and the Election - The GOP needs to raise the health-care stakes in 2010, and beyond
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703843804575534072299141554.html
The Obama Administration's Support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/10/149074.htm
Geithner's 'Cooperation' - Dollar devaluation is not economic leadership
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703735804575536453177817206.html
Secretary of Treasury Timothy F. Geithner Remarks at the Brookings Institution
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/tg894.htm
Toward a New American Century - Immigration reform, investments in human capital, and a saner housing policy can help restore U.S. economic leadership
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575531894174441102.html
Fighting Back Against Arbitrary Government Rule
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/10/06/morning-bell-fighting-back-against-arbitrary-government-rule
ObamaCare and the Election - The GOP needs to raise the health-care stakes in 2010, and beyond
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703843804575534072299141554.html
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Press Briefing
Oct 06, 2010
The Coming Golden Age of Television - TV networks and video programming are among the only traditional media to grow since the advent of the Internet
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704380504575530461209634820.html
The Demilitarization of Europe - Our NATO allies aren't spending enough to be credible security partners anymore
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575531722614613144.html
Of Scoundrels and Speech - The First Amendment protects even jerks
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575532221786782014.html
Undiplomatic Hold-Ups - Boxer and Brownback vs. U.S. interests
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704116004575521831759579778.html
UNHCR Roundtable on Asylum-Seekers and Refugees Seeking Protection on Account of Their Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
http://www.state.gov/g/prm/rls/rmks/2010/149000.htm
Pax Americana and the New Iraq - Iraq's Shiites, especially, have a healthy fear of Iran and a desire to keep Persian power at bay
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703843804575534131136793708.html
Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets Mary J. Miller Remarks before the Future Industry Association Treasury and Rates Conference
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/tg890.htm
The Soul of the Spending Machine - Republicans need new rules to aid their policy priorities
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575532410134909310.html
61st Session of the UNHCR Executive Committee - U.S. Government Plenary Statement
http://www.state.gov/g/prm/rls/rmks/2010/148629.htm
Why praise violent, misogynistic hip-hop stars?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859204575526401852413266.html
Remarks by Delegation of the United States of America to the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly
http://www.state.gov/t/avc/rls/149010.htm
The Private Sector Can Improve Infrastructure with Privatization not a Bank
http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2010/0929_infrastructure_privatization_winston.aspx
Serendipitous Connections - Innovation occurs when ideas from different people bang against each other
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575531790397679612.html
How Handwriting Trains the Brain - Forming Letters Is Key to Learning, Memory, Ideas
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575531932754922518.html
The Coming Golden Age of Television - TV networks and video programming are among the only traditional media to grow since the advent of the Internet
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704380504575530461209634820.html
The Demilitarization of Europe - Our NATO allies aren't spending enough to be credible security partners anymore
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575531722614613144.html
Of Scoundrels and Speech - The First Amendment protects even jerks
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575532221786782014.html
Undiplomatic Hold-Ups - Boxer and Brownback vs. U.S. interests
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704116004575521831759579778.html
UNHCR Roundtable on Asylum-Seekers and Refugees Seeking Protection on Account of Their Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
http://www.state.gov/g/prm/rls/rmks/2010/149000.htm
Pax Americana and the New Iraq - Iraq's Shiites, especially, have a healthy fear of Iran and a desire to keep Persian power at bay
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703843804575534131136793708.html
Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets Mary J. Miller Remarks before the Future Industry Association Treasury and Rates Conference
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/tg890.htm
The Soul of the Spending Machine - Republicans need new rules to aid their policy priorities
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575532410134909310.html
61st Session of the UNHCR Executive Committee - U.S. Government Plenary Statement
http://www.state.gov/g/prm/rls/rmks/2010/148629.htm
Why praise violent, misogynistic hip-hop stars?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859204575526401852413266.html
Remarks by Delegation of the United States of America to the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly
http://www.state.gov/t/avc/rls/149010.htm
The Private Sector Can Improve Infrastructure with Privatization not a Bank
http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2010/0929_infrastructure_privatization_winston.aspx
Serendipitous Connections - Innovation occurs when ideas from different people bang against each other
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575531790397679612.html
How Handwriting Trains the Brain - Forming Letters Is Key to Learning, Memory, Ideas
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575531932754922518.html
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Press Briefing
Oct 05, 2010
Readers Write: Healthy Children Need Healthy Parents
http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entries/readers_write_health/
Jennifer Rubin on how California's optimism has been replaced by cynicism and regulation
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575532410472662810.html
Truth in the Time of Putinism - Kremlin critics fear assassination and kangaroo courts
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859204575526041067013892.html
Obama Tactics Rebound on Rahm - Rahm runs into a Chicago roadblock
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575532120616441014.html
President Obama Meets with Economic Recovery Advisory Board
http://goo.gl/fb/rsIUB
Hating 'Superman' - Teachers unions are on the moral defensive
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882404575520160925291820.html
White House Women's Entrepreneurship Conference: Closing Session
http://goo.gl/fb/cXaDQ
Manchin vs. Obama(Care) - A West Virginia Democrat tries to get elected
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882404575520360188448950.html
White House Press Briefing
http://goo.gl/fb/UIQES
The 'Pay for Delay' Rap - The drug industry, the FTC and overzealous antitrust
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703447004575449511811622220.html
President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board Meeting
http://goo.gl/fb/GTWOw
Speak Up on D.C. Schools, Mr. President - The president remains silent about the fate of Michelle Rhee, the successful chancellor of public schools in the nation's capital
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575532293014870442.html
White House Women's Entrepreneurship Conference: Opening Session
http://goo.gl/fb/3JktB
The Bill Gates Income Tax - If Washington's most famous billionaires are really worried about their state's finances, they'd write personal checks to the government and leave everyone else alone
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882404575520241519315372.html
New START: Security Through 21st-Century Verification
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2010_09/Gottemoeller
The Red Dragon’s Carbon Footprint
http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2010/10/04/the-red-dragons-carbon-footprint/
Readers Write: Healthy Children Need Healthy Parents
http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entries/readers_write_health/
Jennifer Rubin on how California's optimism has been replaced by cynicism and regulation
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575532410472662810.html
Truth in the Time of Putinism - Kremlin critics fear assassination and kangaroo courts
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859204575526041067013892.html
Obama Tactics Rebound on Rahm - Rahm runs into a Chicago roadblock
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575532120616441014.html
President Obama Meets with Economic Recovery Advisory Board
http://goo.gl/fb/rsIUB
Hating 'Superman' - Teachers unions are on the moral defensive
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882404575520160925291820.html
White House Women's Entrepreneurship Conference: Closing Session
http://goo.gl/fb/cXaDQ
Manchin vs. Obama(Care) - A West Virginia Democrat tries to get elected
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882404575520360188448950.html
White House Press Briefing
http://goo.gl/fb/UIQES
The 'Pay for Delay' Rap - The drug industry, the FTC and overzealous antitrust
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703447004575449511811622220.html
President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board Meeting
http://goo.gl/fb/GTWOw
Speak Up on D.C. Schools, Mr. President - The president remains silent about the fate of Michelle Rhee, the successful chancellor of public schools in the nation's capital
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575532293014870442.html
White House Women's Entrepreneurship Conference: Opening Session
http://goo.gl/fb/3JktB
The Bill Gates Income Tax - If Washington's most famous billionaires are really worried about their state's finances, they'd write personal checks to the government and leave everyone else alone
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882404575520241519315372.html
New START: Security Through 21st-Century Verification
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2010_09/Gottemoeller
The Red Dragon’s Carbon Footprint
http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2010/10/04/the-red-dragons-carbon-footprint/
Monday, October 4, 2010
Press Briefing
Oct 03, 2010
Will Obama's foreign policy follow his new democracy rhetoric?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/03/AR2010100303382.html
From Wikinomics to the Tea Party - Government is the institution most obviously frozen in the pre-Web era
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859204575525940019780582.html
The case for ambulance service fees
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/03/AR2010100303622.html
Adam Smith - A mind that ranged over politics, law and ethics—and produced the definitive defense of free markets
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704654004575518151286879946.html
Right call on the Black Panthers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/03/AR2010100303620.html
Target: Ireland - Europe tries to beat the Republic into tax submission
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703465504575528013807144380.html
White House - Building Skills for America’s Future
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/10/04/building-skills-america-s-future
Leahy's Supreme Tie-Breakers - A plan for liberal Justices to come out of retirement
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704483004575524023517652614.html
Helping More Women-Owned Small Businesses Compete for Federal Contracts
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/10/04/helping-more-women-owned-small-businesses-compete-federal-contracts
'Essential' Bailouts - Under Dodd-Frank, some creditors are more equal than others
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704483004575524232993529218.html
National Cyber Security Awareness Month Kicks Off
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/10/01/national-cyber-security-awareness-month-kicks
The Lap Dog Coalition - Blue Dog Democrats voted with Nancy Pelosi 80% of the time on economic issues
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859204575526061943295810.html
Statement by the President on the Occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Reunification of East and West Germany
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/10/02/statement-president-occasion-20th-anniversary-reunification-east-and-wes
Historian Victor Davis Hanson writes that the American university is the most politically intolerant and monolithic institution in the country
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859204575526090709113292.html
The White House Women’s Entrepreneurship Conference
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/10/01/white-house-women-s-entrepreneurship-conference
The Trade and Tax Doomsday Clocks
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704116004575521822940983434.html
U.S. Stabilization Capabilities: Lessons Learned From Kyrgyzstan
http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/site/entry/stabilization_kyrgyzstan
Peace Doesn't Keep Itself - Defense spending has increased at a much lower rate than domestic spending in recent years and is not the cause of soaring deficits
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704483004575524763315951380.html
Enough With the Low Interest Rates! - Fed policy punishes savers without making credit more readily available
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704654004575517940057210022.html
The Obama Experts vs. the Rule of Law
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/10/04/morning-bell-the-obama-experts-vs-the-rule-of-law
George Washington was a genius and a titan, but it was politics, not war, at which he excelled
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882404575520061512222160.html
Alien Tort Victory - Business can't be held liable for overseas human rights abuses
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703989304575503703623437096.html
IMF: Shaping the New Financial System
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/spn/2010/spn1015.pdf
Press release: http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2010/pr10376.htm
School Reform Rainmakers - John Walton had the right idea for education donors
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704116004575522302370477856.html
Weekly Address: Solar Power & a Clean Energy Economy
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/10/02/weekly-address-solar-power-a-clean-energy-economy
China's Aggressive New Diplomacy - Beijing drives its neighbors into the arms of the U.S.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704483004575523710432896610.html
Will Obama's foreign policy follow his new democracy rhetoric?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/03/AR2010100303382.html
From Wikinomics to the Tea Party - Government is the institution most obviously frozen in the pre-Web era
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859204575525940019780582.html
The case for ambulance service fees
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/03/AR2010100303622.html
Adam Smith - A mind that ranged over politics, law and ethics—and produced the definitive defense of free markets
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704654004575518151286879946.html
Right call on the Black Panthers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/03/AR2010100303620.html
Target: Ireland - Europe tries to beat the Republic into tax submission
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703465504575528013807144380.html
White House - Building Skills for America’s Future
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/10/04/building-skills-america-s-future
Leahy's Supreme Tie-Breakers - A plan for liberal Justices to come out of retirement
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704483004575524023517652614.html
Helping More Women-Owned Small Businesses Compete for Federal Contracts
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/10/04/helping-more-women-owned-small-businesses-compete-federal-contracts
'Essential' Bailouts - Under Dodd-Frank, some creditors are more equal than others
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704483004575524232993529218.html
National Cyber Security Awareness Month Kicks Off
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/10/01/national-cyber-security-awareness-month-kicks
The Lap Dog Coalition - Blue Dog Democrats voted with Nancy Pelosi 80% of the time on economic issues
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859204575526061943295810.html
Statement by the President on the Occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Reunification of East and West Germany
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/10/02/statement-president-occasion-20th-anniversary-reunification-east-and-wes
Historian Victor Davis Hanson writes that the American university is the most politically intolerant and monolithic institution in the country
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859204575526090709113292.html
The White House Women’s Entrepreneurship Conference
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/10/01/white-house-women-s-entrepreneurship-conference
The Trade and Tax Doomsday Clocks
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704116004575521822940983434.html
U.S. Stabilization Capabilities: Lessons Learned From Kyrgyzstan
http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/site/entry/stabilization_kyrgyzstan
Peace Doesn't Keep Itself - Defense spending has increased at a much lower rate than domestic spending in recent years and is not the cause of soaring deficits
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704483004575524763315951380.html
Enough With the Low Interest Rates! - Fed policy punishes savers without making credit more readily available
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704654004575517940057210022.html
The Obama Experts vs. the Rule of Law
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/10/04/morning-bell-the-obama-experts-vs-the-rule-of-law
George Washington was a genius and a titan, but it was politics, not war, at which he excelled
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882404575520061512222160.html
Alien Tort Victory - Business can't be held liable for overseas human rights abuses
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703989304575503703623437096.html
IMF: Shaping the New Financial System
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/spn/2010/spn1015.pdf
Press release: http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2010/pr10376.htm
School Reform Rainmakers - John Walton had the right idea for education donors
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704116004575522302370477856.html
Weekly Address: Solar Power & a Clean Energy Economy
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/10/02/weekly-address-solar-power-a-clean-energy-economy
China's Aggressive New Diplomacy - Beijing drives its neighbors into the arms of the U.S.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704483004575523710432896610.html
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