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About a Quarter of Americans Support the Tea Party Movement
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyA little over a quarter of Americans say they are supporters of the Tea Party movement and nearly half of them are Republican and 70 percent are conservative, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll conducted March 26-28. In addition to their right-leaning ideology and political affiliations, the issue that most galvanizes Tea Party supporters -- after their initial revolt against the economic stimulus bill and government bailouts -- is the recently approved health care reform overhaul. Eighty-seven percent of Tea Party supporters consider the legislation a "bad thing," compared with 50 percent ...
Barack Obama and Baseball: The President's (Other) Game
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyBaseball's place as the "National Pastime" was always a bit of an exaggeration -- even in the days of Joe DiMaggio many sports fans preferred college football, boxing, horse racing or basketball. But baseball's place in the nation's psyche was no myth, either, and from our country's earliest days U.S. presidents kept abreast of the nation's pulse by embracing the uniquely American game. ...
The Silent Killer Takes Out a Woman Who Would Not Shut Up
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyChristie Buckner was an ordinary woman, so the world took little notice of her death last October. ...
A Civilogue Guide to Militant Civility
By Jeffrey Weiss - Politics DailyThe time has come for a militant civility -- which is not the same as a civilian militia. A few days ago, I posted a bit of a rant, calling on those of us who believe that passionate debate need not be insulting or disrespectful to take back the arena. I even created a word to describe us: Civilogues. ...
'People of Paradox': Government Distrust Takes a Dark -- and Contradictory -- Turn
By Robert Schmuhl - Politics Daily"Always love your country -- but never trust your government." That admonition about America comes from the late columnist and commentator Robert D. Novak, and he liked to repeat those words as a charge to graduating students contemplating their futures as citizens. Yet, since his death last August, that message has morphed into something else. Now the phrase "never trust" approaches a baser and more frightening emotion: hate. Listen to higher-decibel talk radio or watch some of the angriest demonstrations, and you witness rage on a level beyond mistrust or suspicion. ...
The (Latest) Return of Jerry Brown: 'I've Seen a Lot'
By Lou Cannon - Politics DailyCalifornia Attorney General Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown Jr., the state's once and maybe future governor, has yet again reinvented himself. The onetime apostle of New Age politics, famed and deplored as "Governor Moonbeam," has emerged in the first month of his candidacy for governor as a champion of the traditional bipartisan politics practiced by political leaders of this state since Earl Warren, who served as governor from 1943-1953. This is a new guise for Brown, a quirky gadfly who last appeared on the national political stage in 1992 as a quixotic candidate for the Democratic presidential ...
What Pope Benedict Must Do
By Jason Berry - Politics DailyPope Benedict faces an epic scandal as victims of clerical sex abuse in Ireland, Western Europe and America raise the issue of justice denied by secret tribunals that allowed predators to remain priests. Yet an editorial in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, scored the media for "an ignoble attempt to strike at Pope Benedict and his closest aides at any cost." Benedict is grappling with an unfinished crisis that drew media coverage in America in 1992; victims' lawsuits revealed bishops who had sheltered predators from prosecution. By 1994 the coverage had ebbed. Then, in 2002, The ...
Chaos Theory -- I Was a Health Care Crank
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The Curious Case of Nyi Nyi Aung
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailySix months ago, a man named Nyi Nyi Aung landed at the Yangon International Airport in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). He had come to Myanmar in the hopes of visiting his mother, who is currently in jail for pro-democracy activities and sick with cancer. Before he could clear customs, Aung's baggage cart was seized by airport personnel and he was told to come into their offices to answer some "personal questions." Although Aung has a background as a human rights activist, and was a prominent leader during Burma's 1988 uprising, he had broken no laws. Perhaps more important, Aung is also an ...
What Did the Pope Know, and When Did He Know It?
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThat is the question every scandal-plagued politician fears, mainly because it has no good answer. Once the public starts framing the inquiry that way, it generally means they don't trust the responses given so far -- as well as the person giving the answers -- and likely won't put much faith in what comes next, no matter how sincere the reassurances. That Pope Benedict XVI finds himself in this unenviable position Thursday morning is a result of both a "tsunami" of stories -- the word used by an Austrian cardinal close to the pontiff -- concerning the sexual abuse of children by clerics ...
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