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...Republican congressional leaders have to be chuckling right now. In the end, all the tea-party town halls, Glenn Beck rallies and "death panel" rumors may have less of a hand in bringing down health care reform than an intraparty Democratic culture...
...solved the problem. At the same time, however, most of their pro-life colleagues, as well as the influential U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), continued to maintain that funding problems still existed because federal subsidies to help people buy health insurance on a government-managed exchange could end up going to private insurance plans that covered abortions. (Read "How Abortion Could Imperil Health Care Reform...
North Korea Nearly 60 years ago the U.S. and China went to war with each other on the Korean Peninsula. Now the two countries are closer than ever in their attitude toward the despotic regime. Both the U.S. and China desire an end to the North's nuclear-weapons program. Beijing has hosted the six-party talks aimed at finding a peaceful resolution, and last month it lobbied Pyongyang to return to the bargaining table. During a visit to Beijing, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said, "I have rarely seen better coordination between China and the United States...
...This is key, Pivot says, because it indicates in coming years there will be a dwindling in GDP-boosting activities such as construction. China's "industrialization and structural modernization are largely complete," according to Pivot's report. As a result, new investments will end up funding unneeded factories, buildings and roads. He concludes that the country's capital spending boom is unsustainable because it is "outstripping previous great transformation periods" experienced by Thailand and Asia's other tiger economies, as well as Germany and Japan...
...Reality differed from Humphreys' expectations. His arrival in Bindoon, a small town in Western Australia, marked the end of his formal education. By 14, he was driving a truck to collect rocks and sand for a construction site where he and other child-migrant laborers were working. They were under the control of the Christian Brothers, an international Catholic congregation who are today notorious for their record of physically and sexually abusing orphans. "[The Brothers] were not afraid to use a belt. They wore these black robes that had a pocket on the inside - like a holster," remembers Humphreys...