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PublishedFebruary 12, 2012
DANA MILBANK: Remember ‘nattering nabobs of negativism’? That’s today’s GOP
"How many of you," Scott Rasmussen asked the crowd at last week's Conservative Political Action Conference, "have ever mocked or made fun of the president's call for hope and change? Raise your hands."
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PublishedFebruary 12, 2012
BACKGROUND: LePage backs US’s toughest Medicaid cuts
Medicaid spending is a matter of urgency almost everywhere in the country right now, but in few places is the urgency as palpable as it is here, where the governor refers to the federal-state health insurance program for the poor as "welfare," says it's necessary to eliminate coverage for 65,000 adults, and wants to stop paying room and board for some 2,000 elders who live in group homes.
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2012
COMMENTARY: Charles Dickens: Still relevant after all these years
As we mark the bicentennial of Charles Dickens' birth (Feb. 7), the most fitting tribute we can offer to the man, who first wrote and became famous under the pen name "Boz," is to examine the ways in which his work still speaks to our lives.
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2012
JOSEPH REISERT: Obama shouldn’t try to compel religious groups to toe secular line
By all accounts, Barak Obama is, personally, a committed Christian believer. At the National Prayer Breakfast, he told the assembly that he prays and spends some time with the scriptures every day. Before becoming president, he was a faithful member of a Protestant congregation in Chicago.
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PublishedFebruary 9, 2012
MAINE COMPASS: Quiet revolution: transitioning to a sustainable energy future
Not long ago, I participated in a retrospective workshop at Harvard University about the sulfur allowance program.
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PublishedFebruary 8, 2012
GEORGE SMITH: Battle about opt-out provision in LURC plan gets partisan, ugly
Most Mainers agree that the state's 10 million acres of northern forest should remain intact, sheltering our wildlife, feeding our economy, feeding our soul. The owners of those lands share these goals.
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PublishedFebruary 7, 2012
MIKE TIPPING: Poll results only as good as their methods, sample size, questions
If you've read this column regularly, you know that misrepresentation of polling data is one of my pet peeves.
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PublishedFebruary 6, 2012
MAINE COMPASS: Free children’s vaccinations will encourage preventative health care
Families concerned about health care costs now have one less thing to worry about: As of Jan. 1, children 18 and younger get their vaccinations without having to pay the cost of the vaccine.
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PublishedFebruary 5, 2012
DANA MILBANK: GOP freshmen’s media show gives evidence of lowered expectations
House freshmen have been on the job for almost exactly a year, and until now they've done little more than talk about cutting the national debt.
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PublishedFebruary 5, 2012
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Assad’s fall would hinder Iran, benefit US, Arab League
Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just signal the liberation of Eastern Europe from Moscow. It prefigured the collapse of the Soviet Union itself just two years later.
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