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“Time wounds all heels”
is what Nick Lowe once sang. And so it is with the one-year anniversary of ObamaCare becoming law.
(CNN) – One year after President Barack Obama signed the health care reform bill into law, a new national poll indicates that attitudes toward the plan have not budged.
According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday, on the one year anniversary of the signing of the law, a majority continue to oppose the measure, but some of the opposition is from Americans who think the law is not liberal enough.
Thirty-seven percent of Americans support the measure, with 59 percent opposed. That’s basically unchanged from last March, when 39 percent supported the law and 59 percent opposed the measure.
“It’s worth remembering that opposition to the bill came from both the left and the right last year, and that has not changed either,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. “In 2010, about a quarter of the health care bill’s opponents disliked the bill because it was not liberal enough – the same as today. That works out to 13 percent of all Americans who oppose the bill because it did not go far enough. Forty-three percent oppose it because it was too liberal.”
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Will the jihadist savages celebrate this murder, as they did the Fogel family murders, or will their PR handlers instruct them to tone it down this time so as not to wake up the ever-gullible West?
An update on this story. “Woman Dies of Wounds in Jerusalem Bombing,” from Israel National News, March 23 (thanks to Tziona):
A woman who was critically wounded in the bombing in Jerusalem on Wednesday afternoon has died of her injuries, doctors at Hadassah Ein Karem hospital report….
I don’t really know precisely what days in March 2003 the CIA’s contractors waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed a total of 183 times.
But I thought about the rough timing when Dafna Linzer tweeted about this Steven Aftergood post, noting the report in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s review of what they did last Congress said they still weren’t done with their torture review.
It is nearly a decade since the Central Intelligence Agency embarked on its controversial post-9/11 program of prisoner detention and interrogation, which included “enhanced” procedures that would later be repudiated and that were widely regarded as torture. But even now, an accurate and complete account of that episode remains unavailable.
It is more than two years since the Senate Intelligence Committee belatedly began “a study of the CIA’s detention and interrogation program.” The Committee reported (pdf) this month that “the CIA has made available to the Committee over 4 million pages of CIA records relating to its detention and interrogation program.”
Yet the Committee said that its two year old review of the nearly decade-old program is still not complete: “The review has continued toward the goal of presenting to the Committee, in the [current] 112th Congress, the results of the review of the extensive documentary record that has been provided to the Committee.” There was no mention of presenting the results of the review to the public.
It seems to me we’re never going to see that report until after the 8 year statute of limitations on torture expire for everything described in the report that clearly exceeded John Yoo’s expansive interpretation of what constitutes torture. And we’re sure as hell not going to get a report on the death threats they illegally used with Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri just as DOD is about to charge him in a military commission.
But they might have to “keep working” on it for a couple more years: I’m betting the government used water “dousing” in 2004 in an illegal manner, too.
It’s a brand new kind of job security for government workers, the kind of “work” they have to do to make sure the statutes of limitation expire on the crimes they’re investigating while they’re investigating them.
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To paraphrase the great military blogger Tom Ricks, the only people not freaking over Libya are those who didn’t like the idea of a no-fly zone in the first place. That noted, the U.S.-led NATO air forces have accomplished what they set out to do in a mere three days. Radar and anti-aircraft missile sites are in ruins and Moammar el-Qaddafi’s air force is effectively grounded. So it’s time for lesser air forces to take over. Like those from the Arab League.
Hello, Arab League. Anyone home?
(Silence.)
The support of the Arab League was crucial in giving legitimacy to Operation Odyssey Dawn, but despite talking the talk, league member countries for the most part are reluctant to walk the walk, and league President Amr Moussa has criticized the air strikes as beyond the scope of the United Nations resolution, which it is not.
Moussa later did some walking back of his own, saying he only meant to voice concern over the protection of civilians, but the impression grows that the nations that have the largest stake in Libya, which is to say stabilizing a region that has reverberated with pro-democracy protests and now a civil war, are basically gutless.
That may be a bit harsh. After all, most of these nations are new at coalition building, ambivalent at best about the outbreak of pro-democracy movements, are run by autocrats and have miniscule air forces with little real-world experience. In other words, they have plenty of excuses for not wanting to take the responsibility.
So far only the Qataris have contributed to the NATO task force despite early promises of support from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Prince Saud of Saudi Arabia added insult to injury in stating after a meeting with British PM David Cameron that he strongly supported “the steps being taken by the international community to enforce it.” Yeah, that and and five riyals will get you a cup of coffee at the Starbucks on Prince Abdullah Street in Riyadh.
Among the Arab League member countries struck deaf and dumb since the task force took to the skies are Algeria, Libya’s eastern neighbor, and Jordan and Syria. Egypt, which abuts Libya’s western border, would appear to be the perfect place to base Arab League aircraft, but no such offer has been forthcoming from the interim Cairo government.
The non-involvement of most league nations comes at a crucial juncture. The coalition shows signs of fracturing over who is in charge and what happens next. The answer is obvious: Arab League nations begin acting like grown ups, take over and determine, with Western materiel, intelligence and other resources, what should happen next.
Hello, Arab League. Anyone home?
If there was one Muslim country that seemed to be immune from the wave of protests engulfing the Middle East, it would have to be Syria-on account of the tight lid it keeps on personal expression and of course the history of the Hama Massacre.
But now, according to the Wall Street Journal it appears that even Syria is ripe for protests.
Every Arab country is unhappy in its own way, and it turns out Syria is no different. A wave of protests the past four days, starting in the city of Deraa on Friday and spreading, makes Iran’s chief Arab ally a latecomer to the spring of Muslim discontent.
The unrest has taken Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and the U.S. foreign policy establishment by surprise. Syria was supposedly immune to Arab contagion. Earlier this month, Foreign Affairs magazine published “The Sturdy House That Assad Built,” arguing that the Arab wave would not only “pass Syria by” but see Damascus “relatively strengthened” by the collapse of Egypt and other pro-American regimes. The West, urged German political scientist Michael Bröning, better think of new and better ways to “engage Assad.”
The turning point may have been the peaceful protest in Deraa of the arrest of 15 schoolchildren for writing graffiti against the Syrian government. Syrian forces opened fire on the protesters, killing at least 4 of them. The next day, mourners called for revolution. In addition to Deraa, there have been protests in Damascus and Aleppo among others.
The Wall Street Journal is calling on Obama to support domestic opponents of Assad whenever it can-the idea being that a weaker Syria would reduce support for Hezbollah in Lebanon and cut down on the spread of weapons and terrorism.
And yet, as often happens with dictators, there is an advantage to having a strongman in charge. So too here, there is an advantage to Israel in having Assad firmly in charge:
To Israel, the great advantage of Assad’s regime is its lack of daring and its tendency to avoid risk and direct conflict. Assad’s responses have been predictable, allowing Israel freedom of action. The height of this was the September 2007 bombing of the nuclear reactor that had been built secretly in northeast Syria. Assad did not respond, and even renewed peace talks a few months later with the prime minister at the time, Ehud Olmert. The talks stalled, as had all previous attempts.
Israel may end up missing that silver lining, but no one knows for sure what kind of government might be created out of the chaos of the protests. Israel will have to continue waiting quietly to view the new Middle East political landscape once the dust has settled.
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(CNN) – One year after President Barack Obama signed the health care reform bill into law, a new national poll indicates that attitudes toward the plan have not budged.
According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday, on the one year anniversary of the signing of the law, 37 percent of Americans support the measure, with 59 percent opposed. That’s basically unchanged from last March, when 39 percent supported the law and 59 percent opposed the measure.
“It’s worth remembering that opposition to the bill came from both the left and the right last year, and that has not changed either,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. “In 2010, about a quarter of the health care bill’s opponents disliked the bill because it was not liberal enough – the same as today. That works out to 13 percent of all Americans who oppose the bill because it did not go far enough. Forty-three percent oppose it because it was too liberal.”
The passage of health care reform was seen as the signature domestic achievement of the president’s first two years in office. The law was a major issue in the midterm elections and with many Republicans continuing to push to either repeal or defund the plan, health care will most likely remain a very important issue in the 2012 election.
In what was seen as a largely symbolic move, the GOP controlled House voted earlier this year to repeal the law. At the same time, a number of legal cases that aim to overturn the measure are advancing through the federal court system.
With all this in mind, the poll continues to indicate a partisan divide, but also a gender gap among people who oppose the health care law.
“Men and women dislike the new health care law in equal measure, but not necessarily for the same reasons,” Holland says. “Nearly all men who oppose the law do so because it is too liberal. But a third of the women who dislike the law feel that way because it is not liberal enough.”
The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey was conducted March 18-20, with 1,012 people questioned by telephone. The survey’s overall sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points.
Two other polls released in the past week, by Gallup and Kaiser Family Foundation, also indicate that Americans are divided over the health care law.
– CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report
Washington (CNN) – For some Americans, D-Day is “Tax Day.”
April 15 is traditionally a date of national importance, as many Americans rush to beat the deadline for filing tax returns. Now the date has taken on a new political importance.
For many conservatives, April 15 has become a day to protest taxes they deem too high and government, they feel, has run amok. This year, with presidential contenders jockeying for attention, many contenders are likely poring over their schedules to assess where they’ll get media exposure and face time with conservative voters.
This year’s actual tax return filing deadline has been extended to April 18, a Monday. But conservative activists are still planning to rally on Friday the 15th and over that weekend.
Potential presidential candidates are still firming up their plans. CNN contacted staffs for several presidential contenders to assess where they may be on April 15.
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum will rally the masses at a Tea Party-type rally in Concord, New Hampshire, sponsored by Americans for Prosperity.
Conservative radio talk show host Herman Cain will join them at that event. But the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO will also get more face time with activists by appearing at a rally in Orlando that evening. Cain will be joined by Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and longtime conservative activist Ralph Reed of the National Faith and Freedom Coalition.
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann will attend a fundraiser in the evening in South Carolina, home of the first Southern GOP presidential primary.
Rep. Ron Paul is a popular figure at many Tea Party-type rallies on “Tax Day.” According to a spokesman, he’s besieged with requests to attend various events.
“He’s received a couple of really intriguing invitations and he has yet to decide where he’s going to be,” Jesse Benton told CNN. Benton serves as the Texas lawmaker’s political director.
“He’s been invited to New Hampshire, he’s been invited to Iowa, he’s been invited to at least 10 states,” Benton continued, citing invites from Florida, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Arizona and Texas.
“You can generalize them as Tea Party [invites]. I think, a lot of times, the folks that self identify as Tea Parties have kind of fused themselves with the traditional folks that get out and want to raise awareness on Tax Day,” Benton added.
While those presidential contenders have firm plans for the day, others appear to recognize the day’s importance to conservatives. And yet, some of the potential candidates are undecided while at least two have as yet decided against attending any events.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is not planning to attend any rallies. Instead, he’ll be in New York taping for his show on Fox News.
“I have every confidence, I’m sure, he’ll be bringing it up on his show. It’s just too big of a day not too,” Hogan Gidley told CNN. Gidley is the executive director of HuckPac – Huckabee’s political action committee.
Similarly, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is not committed to any “Tax Day” events.
“Right now, there are no plans to participate in any of those rallies,” the governor’s Deputy Press Secretary Jake Oakman told CNN. “But of course, that could change as we get closer to that date.”
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour’s whereabouts on the all-important “Tax Day” are still being worked out.
“We haven’t announced our schedule for that week yet,” Paul Hurst, the governor’s chief of staff, told CNN in an email.
Donald Trump often travels to Florida on weekends for other commitments and could do the same on the “Tax Day” weekend.
CNN also reached out to aides for other potential 2012 candidates: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. CNN did not receive a response to questions regarding their plans for the day that’s all-important for many conservatives.
FreedomWorks has been a prime organizer of the “Tax Day” rallies that Tea Party groups began in April 2009. This year, the group is not planning a mass rally in Washington D.C., instead focusing on local events in various states.
Brendan Steinhauser, the group’s director of federal and state campaigns, does not speak for any presidential contenders. Yet he predicts they will be involved on “Tax Day.”
“There’s no doubt in my mind that…Newt [Gingrich] and Palin and all these guys will be somewhere at some rally speaking,” Steinhauser told CNN.
“I’m sure they’re kind of waiting to see what their schedules look like and what the best opportunity is – biggest event, lot of media exposure in key states.”
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Skills.
To cleanse the palate. I used to think this guy was the greatest of all time, but now I don’t know. Watching the two clips in sequence is like watching a highlight reel of Jordan when he was on the Bulls followed by one of Kobe when he was in high school. The skill levels […]
Skills.
To cleanse the palate. I used to think this guy was the greatest of all time, but now I don’t know. Watching the two clips in sequence is like watching a highlight reel of Jordan when he was on the Bulls followed by one of Kobe when he was in high school. The skill levels […]
Whatever.
Why … no, as a matter of fact, it isn’t. The Bolivian President and a Russian political leader have launched a campaign to revoke Obama’s honour after the US attacked Libya. Liberal Democratic Party of Russia leader and Vice-Chairman of the State Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky released a statement today calling for the Nobel Prize Committee […]
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In this week's issue, Time magazine followed Newsweek in honoring gay sex columnist Dan Savage and offering him space to trash conservatives. The liberal media sets Savage up as an anti-bullying activist, then lets him push conservative faces in the dirt. In December Newsweek printed him saying "F— John McCain" and asserting Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was clearly a "c—sucker." In their Ten Questions feature honoring his "It Gets Better" videos affirming homosexual children, Time asked him "Who hasn't made a video yet who you hope will?" This allowed Savage to insist conservatives don't care if homosexual children (or children who think they might be) commit suicide:
Rick Santorum. Tim Pawlenty. Sarah Palin. Glenn Beck. The Prime Minister of Britain, who leads the Conservative Party there, made a video, and we haven't seen one from anyone on the right in the U.S. to even say, You're 14 and gay. Don't kill yourself.
What Savage really wants is what David Cameron of Britain provided: a "Conservative" who's 100 percent in agreement with government celebrating homosexuality. Cameron says in his video:
Britain is a diverse, open, tolerant place. This is not the sort of country where we label people for being different. Just look at the massive progress that’s been made on making this country more fair. Today same-sex couples can have their relationship legally recognized. People in our armed forces can be open about who they are. Equality laws are fighting discrimination at work, and in society. Now of course, there’s more that needs to be done, which is why this government is working hard to tackle homophobic bullying and drive it out of our schools. But overall, Britain is a place where you can be who you want to be – and we should celebrate that.
At the end of the video for Stonewall UK is the message "Some people are gay. Get over it!" This is in line with Savage, who despises the "dehumanizing bigotries" of traditional Christianity and feels like the news media should ban all Christian conservatives from speaking critically of homosexuality on television — out of compassion and tolerance. Time continued its Savage interview by informing or reminding the Time reader that Savage deeply hates Rick Santorum:
It seems unlikely that Santorum will participate. Because of you, if one Googles Santorum, a very inappropriate definition is the first hit.
Rick Santorum has said insanely offensive things about gay and lesbian couples. He was a two-term sitting U.S. Senator with a lot of power, and my readers and I are a bunch of jackasses without a lot of power. We made a joke at his expense, and now he [plays] the victim, which is all Republicans seem capable of doing these days.
You recently attended an antibullying conference at the White House. Did you meet the President?
No. But I was 20 feet away from him and the glamour supernova that is Michelle Obama. It's staggering how charismatic and beautiful she is. It takes a lot for a woman to ping onto my radar like that.
The interview ended with the question "What advice can you give readers of TIME?" His message was that marital or sexual fidelity is very unrealistic — which would seem to ruin the idea that "gay marriage" has the same meaning or expectations as opposite-sex marriage:
We talk about love in a way that's very unrealistic: "If you're in love, you're not going to want to have sex with anyone else but that person." That's not true. We need to acknowledge that truth so that people don't have to spend 40 years of marriage lying to and policing each other.
Savage probably feels that most of the Ten Commandments are unrealistic, if it's not "bullying" to even speak of such a religious concept in the Savage Utopia, where the Bible-thumpers cannot speak in public.
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John Caelan from the website The Swamp Post has created a couple of time-lapse videos that map protests from December 18 to March 7, 2011, where the protests and uprisings can be seen spreading out into different countries.
This next one focuses on the Middle East region:
On a comment on his website in response to a reader's question he explains how he got the data by searching results of protest and uprising reports from mainstream media.
Generally, the methodology was to sift through the first 1000 results of a news search on any given day and mine the unique events. All of that was copied into Excel by day–the locations were mined from the articles manually, and the icons were the chosen by the best average of reporting, as reporting the actual count of people at any gathering is both intrinsically difficult, regardless of skew involved parties tend to apply. Each day’s sheet was turned into a .csv, and imported into the mapper, which is a free thing from Zee Maps, ’cause I’m poor. The day would be copied, new events added, events older than 5 days deleted, events older than 2 days turned to gray. Each event remains in color for two days, mostly to account for the crossover of timezones.
Mr Caelan, however, is aware of the unreliability of these results in showing worldwide trends, as he explains in a comment on this page. Because protests have caught the attention of mainstream media, he says, this map shows how reporting on uprisings or protests has increased, although not necessarily the quantity of protests themselves.
To find out more about the uprisings shown on the videos, there's also an interactive map where you can click on the different icons and read information on the protest that was recorded at that point.
In an interview this morning, Rep. Mike Pence talked about the continuing resolution.
If it means funding the government one day at a time, then do it until Democrats agree to Republicans’ terms.
