foxnews.com - 2/13/2009
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A Republican lawmaker is calling for an investigation of President Obama's plan to move the U.S. census into the White House. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is sending a letter to committee leaders requesting a hearing. "I'm deeply concerned" ...
Rep. Henry Waxman Wants To Apply Censorship Doctrine To The Internet
newsbusters.org 2/19/2009 — If Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) is not trying to investigate conservatives, he is trying to squelch their voices. Waxman has jumped into the so-called Fairness Doctrine discussion as of late. Waxman, however, has added another dimension to the issue ...
Alienation of Affections:
volokh.com 3/12/2009 — Maggie Gallagher, blogging at National Review Online's The Corner, suggests (more or less) a revival of the tort of alienation of affections, which has been abolished in the vast majority...
Is Wrestling The New Baseball?
marcambinder.theatlantic.com 1/8/2009 — For his swan song as chairman of the House's government oversight committee, Henry Waxman picked a very touchy topic: steroid use by professional wrestlers. Waxman's findings , released on January 2 and based on documents he gathered from the World ...
Waxman: Yes We Can Reform Health Care This Year
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 1/30/2009 —
To add to what Jonathan Cohn says here , part of the significance of House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman vowing to do health care reform this year is that he’s implicitly rejecting the common notion that progressives need to ...
The House Is Alright
openleft.com 11/25/2008 — First, we discovered that more Better Democrats won seats in the U.S. House than did Blue Dogs . Next, we learned that Rahm Emanuel's departure from the House resulted in more progressive legislators taking over caucus leadership positions . Then, ...
Obama's Higher Taxes Hit Working Wives
realclearmarkets.com 3/12/2009 — Amanda’s thinking of getting married. Why would President Obama, who won 56% of the women’s vote and supposedly ended pay discrimination by signing the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, want to make it more difficult?
Amanda is marrying Henry, who owns an ...
2010 Census Will Be Like No Other
tennesseefree.com 2/11/2009 — I searched high and low on my Google Reader for something, anything on the 2010 Census. Nobody seems to be talking about it though. Not yet at least, which is good for Obama and the Democrats.
But they should be.
From Michael Barone:
So now it’s ...
The Pajamas Media blogging enterprise has collapsed.
althouse.blogspot.com 1/31/2009 — Jeff G. (at Protein Wisdom) has the letter from Roger L. Simon, which buries the bad news in a statement about how Pajamas is turning its attention to its web TV efforts. I wonder how many people watch Pajamas TV. In the comments over there, Showy ...
Waxman: Health Care Reform This Year
blogs.tnr.com 1/29/2009 —
Barack Obama has said he wants to pursue major health care reform this year. Two key committee chairmen in the Senate, Max Baucus and Ted Kennedy, have said they watn to pursue health care this year. But what about the House? The leadership has ...
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