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...latest to rack Mexico's most violent city, where an estimated 4,500 people have been killed in drug-related attacks since 2008. With the crime surge increasing public discontent with the government's military-led offensive against cartels, Calderón has promised to redirect some resources to social-reform programs...
Financial Reform...
...Democrats consider shoving health care reform through the House with a process known as "deem and pass," it is helpful to return to square one and ask: What, again, is the rush? ... If the bill is so unpopular that it must be passed long before Election Day, could there be a problem with the legislation? ... If you can't run on the strength of the laws you pass, then either you shouldn't be running or you shouldn't be passing...
...matters. But so do skill and energy. We must be able to make staffing decisions based on performance, not just time served. This President has shown an unprecedented willingness to challenge the powerful teachers' unions, but unless we finally eradicate these anachronistic employment rules, we'll continue to define reform as good intentions, extra dollars and insufficient results...
...believed she would outlive me. She was a proud great-grandmother of 16 and a serial troublemaker. She died on March 9 at 100. Few people believed Doris would survive the year when, at the age of 88, she began a Sisyphean walk across America to promote campaign-finance reform. Her lungs hurt badly, and her knees hurt worse, but after 3,200 miles, Doris was greeted in Washington by the cheers of thousands of supporters. Her bill passed. When she was 94, Doris unexpectedly became the Democratic nominee for one of New Hampshire's Senate seats. I made...