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In any case, some of the entitlement cuts are illusory. For instance, the Bush budget strangely projects $4 billion in oil leases for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as an entitlement cut. But Congress didn't approve ANWR drilling in the current budget and no one's counting...
At the same time, the President will talk about the need for energy independence, and will make an oblique but renewed push for drilling in the Arctic Naitonal Wildlife Refuge. He?ll also tout his ideas for a second, no-child-left-behind-style proposal that will establish standards for...
When the Senate returns in earnest to Capitol Hill this week after a nearly month long break, Senate minority leader Harry Reid has high hopes to build on last year's Democratic successes-which included blocking President Bush's Social Security reform plan, his proposed extension of capital gains and...
It’s almost a cliché. Political commentators and elected officials from both sides of the political spectrum agree: the American military gets its recruits from America’s poor. There’s just one problem. They’re all wrong. Kinda.In my last column...
When the raging flood-waters of Hurricane Katrina swept away the campuses, and plans, of Gulf Coast college students, they could have spent their semesters waiting and wallowing. But, for the 25 Tulane students who took refuge at Harvard this semester, the setback became an opportunity for an unusual adventure.From...