Washington DC - News,Events,Sports http://alldcblog.com Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:16:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Economy Remains Deeply Depressed http://alldcblog.com/the-economy-remains-deeply-depressed http://alldcblog.com/the-economy-remains-deeply-depressed#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:16:19 +0000 http://alldcblog.com/the-economy-remains-deeply-depressed Paul Krugman, New York Times In a better world — specifically, a world with a better policy elite — a good jobs report would be cause for unalloyed celebration. In the world we actually inhabit, however, every silver lining comes with a cloud. Friday’s report was, in fact, much better than expected, and has made many people, myself included, more optimistic. But there’s a real danger that this optimism will be self-defeating, because it will encourage and empower the purge-and-liquidate crowd. 

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]]> http://alldcblog.com/the-future-of-the-world-economy/feed 0 Presidential Fathers and Sons http://alldcblog.com/presidential-fathers-and-sons http://alldcblog.com/presidential-fathers-and-sons#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:50:23 +0000 http://alldcblog.com/presidential-fathers-and-sons Michael Medved, Wall Street Journal Voters this year look set to continue an odd pattern that's prevailed in presidential politics for a quarter century. They will elect either a candidate with a famous father or with no father.The surviving serious contenders—Barack Obama, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney—all exemplify one of these two categories. For the seventh consecutive election, the winning candidate will be either a privileged prince with an adored, powerful patriarch, or an up-from-nothing scrapper with no relationship with his biological dad.

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]]> http://alldcblog.com/presidential-fathers-and-sons/feed 0 The Citizens United Catastrophe http://alldcblog.com/the-citizens-united-catastrophe http://alldcblog.com/the-citizens-united-catastrophe#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:49:31 +0000 http://alldcblog.com/the-citizens-united-catastrophe E.J. Dionne, Washington Post WASHINGTON — We have seen the world created by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, and it doesn't work. Oh, yes, it works nicely for the wealthiest and most powerful people in the country, especially if they want to shroud their efforts to influence politics behind shell corporations. It just doesn't happen to work if you think we are a democracy and not a plutocracy.Two years ago, Citizens United tore down a century's worth of law aimed at reducing the amount of corruption in our electoral system. It will go down as one of the most naive decisions ever rendered…

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]]> http://alldcblog.com/the-citizens-united-catastrophe/feed 0 Box-Checking Obama in a Liberal Cocoon http://alldcblog.com/box-checking-obama-in-a-liberal-cocoon http://alldcblog.com/box-checking-obama-in-a-liberal-cocoon#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:49:01 +0000 http://alldcblog.com/box-checking-obama-in-a-liberal-cocoon Michael Barone, DC Examiner It's unusual when a reporter sympathetic to a politician writes a story that makes his subject look bad. But Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker has now done this twice.The first time was in an article last April on Obama's foreign policy in which he quoted a "top aide" (National Security Adviser Tom Donilon? It sounds like him) saying that the president was "leading from behind" on Libya. Not what most Americans expect their presidents to do.Now, in an article based on leaked White House memos marked up by Obama, Lizza has done it again.Contrarian liberal blogger…

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]]> http://alldcblog.com/box-checking-obama-in-a-liberal-cocoon/feed 0 A Good Week for Planned Parenthood http://alldcblog.com/a-good-week-for-planned-parenthood http://alldcblog.com/a-good-week-for-planned-parenthood#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:45:04 +0000 http://alldcblog.com/a-good-week-for-planned-parenthood Joanna Weiss, Boston Globe This turns out to have been the best week Planned Parenthood has had in years. The bad news that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation was pulling its grants for breast cancer screening was quickly replaced by a flood of donations – including $250,000 from New York’s Republican mayor, Michael Bloomberg – and an outcry so huge that, by Friday, Komen had reversed its decision entirely.And in the meantime, in those three days of fury, Planned Parenthood got precisely the publicity it needs. Indeed, even in the midst of the crisis, some Planned Parenthood officials could see the…

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]]> http://alldcblog.com/a-good-week-for-planned-parenthood/feed 0 The Great Man’s Wife http://alldcblog.com/the-great-mans-wife http://alldcblog.com/the-great-mans-wife#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:40:32 +0000 http://alldcblog.com/the-great-mans-wife Maureen Dowd, New York Times IF you want to figure out why Newt Gingrich is still out there grasping for lost power, howling at the moon like King Lear, look to Callista.You can find her anytime standing statue-still on stage next to Newt as he speaks, gazing at him with such frozen attentiveness that she could give a master class to Nancy Reagan.Ann Romney often introduces her husband, chatting warmly about his uxorious virtues, and then disappears offstage or to the back of the stage while he talks. 

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]]> http://alldcblog.com/the-great-mans-wife/feed 0 Gingrich Vows to Take Fight to ‘Timid’ Romney http://alldcblog.com/gingrich-vows-to-take-fight-to-timid-romney http://alldcblog.com/gingrich-vows-to-take-fight-to-timid-romney#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:38:28 +0000 http://alldcblog.com/gingrich-vows-to-take-fight-to-timid-romney John Whitesides, Reuters Republican Newt Gingrich vowed on Sunday to press ahead with his struggling presidential bid after another big loss in Nevada, saying he will focus on drawing a contrast with "timid" rival Mitt Romney.Romney, the Republican front-runner, easily thumped Gingrich in Nevada on Saturday for his second consecutive win and third in the first five contests in the state-by-state battle to pick a challenger to face Democratic President Barack Obama in the November election.

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]]> http://alldcblog.com/with-win-romney-tightens-front-runner-status/feed 0 Afternoon Snack: Onion ring edition http://alldcblog.com/afternoon-snack-onion-ring-edition http://alldcblog.com/afternoon-snack-onion-ring-edition#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:30:00 +0000 http://alldcblog.com/afternoon-snack-onion-ring-edition Afternoon snack featuring Liz Phair on Lana Del Rey, new stats about Facebook use and other tasty news bites. [ more › ]

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