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Continued strong play from Casey could go a long way towards helping the Crimson earn its first ever Ivy League title this season...
...Barack Obama. They’ve got 59 votes, and yet it’s as if the Republicans are in firm control of the legislative branch. Liberal pundits panicked and turned on their own. Too much hope, not enough audacity. Obama was naïve to think Republicans ever had any interest in bipartisanship, they said, and showed his inexperience in believing Democrats were any better...
However, the minority is abusing it to stymie every legislative initiative without ever allowing an up-or-down vote on the merits. Republicans flat out refuse to play ball. The filibuster becomes a rallying point for the minority whose remaining moderates are under house arrest. Feeling its extraordinary power, the partisan majority puts overwhelming pressure on the few moderates in its ranks to hang with the caucus, surrendering corrupt concessions to keep them on board...
Both parties bear some responsibility for the filibuster’s increased use, which has been facilitated largely by “Rule 22,” which allows opponents to threaten a filibuster without ever having to execute it, sparing the minority of many of the political consequences of stalling legislation while getting to characterize the other side as ineffectual. But its dramatically increased use over the last three years coincides with the arrival and firm entrenchment of European-style, party-bloc voting by the Republicans, such that the filibuster has become a major impediment to the conduct...
...iconic photo has Ko sandwiched between Kim Jong Il and South Korea's late President Kim Dae Jung, the friend and former jail mate for whom Ko penned an encomium included in Maninbo (Ten Thousand Lives), his 30-volume magnum opus profiling everyone he's ever met, as well as figures from Korean folklore and history. The three are toasting each other at a state banquet during the first Reunification Summit in Pyongyang in June 2000, during which Ko recited "At the Taedong River," an occasional poem that reportedly much moved the fearless Dear Leader. An earlier piece, written after...