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The President has made one small but significant rhetorical concession to political reality: a vague and unconvincing warning about "isolationism" and "protectionism," by which he means the growing public impatience with foreign military adventures, foreign economic competition and illegal foreign immigrants. Bush sees this, rightly, as a national turn toward...
Yes, it would be. But symbolic of what, exactly? Foreign affairs, aside from a few cheap shots at the U.S., barely rated a mention during the last campaign, and Harper has not rushed to fill that gap so far. The new government's five priorities remain domestic ones: cleaning up...
But House members aren't the only problem. Perhaps the two most popular members of the Senate and their respective party's' leaders on ethics and lobbying reform, Barack Obama and John McCain, were engaged earlier this week in a highly personal tiff on the issue. Obama, being pushed by...
Vilsack, who is probably running for President-and should be-used the story to illustrate the sacrifice and sense of community that is at the heart of a successful democracy. The current Administration, he said, "is ripping away at the fabric of the American community." The story lingered as I...
While higher-education advocates are excited that Bush may be making science education and research a national priority in his State of the Union address, Casey said, they will have to wait until the president releases his proposed budget Monday to see how the rhetorical emphasis translates into tangible funding...