Public Wants Changes in Entitlements, Not Changes in Benefits

As policymakers at the state and national level struggle with rising entitlement costs, overwhelming numbers of Americans agree that, over the years, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid have been good for the country. But these cherished programs receive negative marks for current performance, and their finances are widely viewed as troubled. Reflecting these concerns, most Americans say all three programs either need to be completely rebuilt or undergo major changes. However, smaller majorities express this view than did so five years ago.

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The Case For NPR Giving Up Federal Funding - Huffington Post

The Serfs of Arkansas - The American Prospect

Two-Thirds of Americans Favor Full Withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan - FireDogLake

Vivian Schiller, NPR CEO, Resigns - Huffington Post

What Michael Moore "Gets" About Wisconsin - The Nation

Read it and weep - Dahlia Lithwick,Slate Magazine

Obama Faces Balancing Act With Signing Statement - Huffington Post

U.S. intervention in Sudan and Somalia: Sowing war’s whirlwind for Americans - Non Intervention

Nine incoming House Democrats assume place in pecking order: the end - Washington Post

Scalia: Women Don't Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination - Huffington Post

Closed Circuit - American Prospect

GOP 'Purists' Could Help Obama In 2012 - Talking Points Memo

Chasing bogeymen - Philadelphia Inquirer

Cutting of Nuñez's sentence sparks anger - LA Times

Vermont: Creating a singular health system - The Boston Globe

Not above the law - Washington Times

How to Understand Barack Obama - New American

Before NPR scandal, a warning about 'elite' liberals - CSM

An American Muslim's View - Why Our Community Needs the King Hearings On Radical Islam - Fox News

NPR, PBS campaigns to keep federal funds called unlawful - Washington Times

Justice Alito Was Right - The American Spectator

Dems Warned Political Climate Could Incite Lone Wolves - TPM

Why is Pelosi Smiling? - Washington Post

Will Obama Be a One-Term President? - American Thinker

Another National-Security Flip-Flop - National Review

Pam Bondi: The States Versus ObamaCare - Pam Bondi, Wall Street Journal

Stuxnet attack on Iran nuclear program came about a year ago - CSM

Clooney Falling Into Bin Laden’s Sudan Trap - Fox News

Obama Returns From Vacation to Face Opposition in Congress - Fox News

Incoming House GOP chairmen have a long list of issues to investigate - Washington Post

Tea Party’s triumph or catastrophe - Boston Globe

CONGRESS CUT short its July 4th recess and returned to Washington this week to try and reach a deal to raise the debt ceiling. Or, rather, some of its members are trying - a growing number of Republicans responsive to the Tea Party movement seem dead set again this. They not only claim that the [...]

Paying the High Price For Putin's Stagnation - The Moscow Times

During the past two months, the public’s attention has been drawn to Prime Minster Vladimir Putin’s All-Russia People’s Front. Political analysts are wondering whether this election vehicle will help United Russia, whose ratings have dropped to nearly 50 percent, to maintain a constitutional majority in the State Duma after the December elections. Disappointing results for United Russia in the vote could also change the dynamics within [...]

President Obama's team sees clear path to victory - latimes.com

President Obama faces an uphill struggle in his campaign for reelection next year. His job approval rating is stuck just below 50%. The unemployment rate appears likely to remain above 8% until election day. And, though it’s too soon to mean much, early polling puts the nominal Republican front-runner, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, within [...]

Dishonesty in the debt talks - The Washington Post

We are waiting for politicians to quit drawing lines in the sand and admit that solving this gigantic problem in a time of divided government means that both sides will have to give ground. We are waiting for business leaders to stop talking vaguely about the need to get our balance sheets in order and to [...]

Assimilation’s Failure, Terrorism’s Rise - NY Times

SIX years ago today, on July 7, 2005, Islamist suicide bombers attacked London’s transit system. They blew up three subway trains and a bus, killing 52 people and leaving a nation groping for answers. In one sense the meaning of 7/7 is as clear to Britons as that of 9/11 is to Americans. It was [...]

Hearings on Islamic radicals must illuminate, not divide - Boston Globe

The radicalization of some American Muslims is indisputably a major homeland-security concern, one that keeps many officials awake at night. Law-enforcement agents have done a good job reaching out to the wider community of American Muslims to enlist their help in identifying the radical fringes. Such assistance has been crucial; several recent incidents involved family members reporting when relatives go abroad to seek alleged terrorist training. American Muslims are clearly the first line of defense against Islamist extremism.

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