Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2277 politics Politics - Op/Ed en-us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2277 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politicsopinion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20091120/cm_uc_crmmax/op_1912043 uc/20091120/op_1912043 Michelle Malkin opinion Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT Michelle Malkin - The Boy Scouts' motto is: Be prepared. Who knew it meant preparing to defend themselves against purple-shirted union thuggery over community service? Kids, pay attention. This is a teachable moment for all of you on power, politics and Big Labor's culture of corruption. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politicsopinion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20091120/cm_uc_crpbux/op_3312049 uc/20091120/op_3312049 Pat Buchanan opinion Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT Pat Buchanan - As George W. Bush famously asked, "Is our children learning?" http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politicsopinion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20091119/cm_thenation/15498941 thenation/20091119/15498941 The Nation opinion Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:43:39 GMT The Nation - The Nation -- It's hard out here for a blogger. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politicsopinion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20091119/cm_thenation/1498754 thenation/20091119/1498754 The Nation opinion Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:28:51 GMT The Nation - The Nation -- The Senate healthcare bill unveiled Wednesday night by Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, is not exactly the cure for all of what ails America. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politicsopinion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20091119/cm_csm/ekarzai csm/20091119/ekarzai The Christian Science Monitor opinion Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:00:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - One possible motive for President Obama's long delay in announcing a new US strategy in Afghanistan may be this: He first wants to see tangible steps against corruption by President Hamid Karzai. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politicsopinion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20091119/cm_csm/ygrayson csm/20091119/ygrayson The Christian Science Monitor opinion Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:00:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - Few issues have caused as much of a stir this year as the question of whether illegal immigrants will be included in the Democratic healthcare bill. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politicsopinion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20091119/cm_csm/yreich csm/20091119/yreich The Christian Science Monitor opinion Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:00:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama says he wants to "rebalance" the economic relationship between China and the US as part of his plan to restart the American jobs machine. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politicsopinion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20091119/cm_uc_crlelx/op_2412035 uc/20091119/op_2412035 Larry Elder opinion Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT Larry Elder - "The political risks of failure are pretty high." http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politicsopinion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20091118/cm_uc_crmmax/op_1912026 uc/20091118/op_1912026 Michelle Malkin opinion Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT Michelle Malkin - President Obama traveled all the way to China to praise the free flow of information. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politicsopinion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20091118/cm_uc_crrscx/op_1712027 uc/20091118/op_1712027 Robert Scheer opinion Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT Robert Scheer - What's up with Barack Obama? The candidate for change once promised to take on the powerful banking interests but is now doing their bidding. Finally, a leading Democrat, in this case Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, has a good idea for monitoring the Wall Street fat cats who all but destroyed the American economy, and the Obama administration condemns it. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politicsopinion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20091118/cm_huffpost/361492 huffpost/20091118/361492 HuffingtonPost.com opinion Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:49:23 GMT HuffingtonPost.com - Read Robert Reich's other articles on HuffingtonPost.com http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politicsopinion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20091117/cm_thenation/1497974 thenation/20091117/1497974 The Nation opinion Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:01:31 GMT The Nation - The Nation -- Recognizing the social, economic and political threat posed by double-digit unemployment numbers, and by the prospect that those numbers are continuing to rise, key Democratic senators are proposing an innovative two-year plan to spend as much as $600 million to avert layoffs. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politicsopinion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20091117/cm_thenation/15498073 thenation/20091117/15498073 The Nation opinion Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:32:04 GMT The Nation - The Nation -- See if you can follow this logic. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politicsopinion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20091117/cm_thenation/1096498052 thenation/20091117/1096498052 The Nation opinion Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:53:53 GMT The Nation - The Nation -- When Yiang Jiemian, president of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, gets together with his brother, Yang Jiechi, China's minister of foreign affairs, they don't talk strategy or politics. "We talk about our grandfather," he says, with a smile. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politicsopinion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20091117/cm_thenation/15498026 thenation/20091117/15498026 The Nation opinion Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:36:35 GMT The Nation - The Nation -- I just don't get it. When Congress approves gifts worth billions of dollars to people who don't deserve a dime, why isn't it front page news? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politicsopinion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20091117/cm_csm/ejobs csm/20091117/ejobs The Christian Science Monitor opinion Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:00:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - Creating jobs for Americans is President Obama's top priority. Yet he left China on Tuesday with little to show in further opening the world's fastest-growing economy to greater imports of US goods and services. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politicsopinion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20091117/cm_csm/ybaum csm/20091117/ybaum The Christian Science Monitor opinion Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:00:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - Asian diplomats often say that just showing up is a large part of successful diplomacy. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politicsopinion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20091117/cm_uc_crmchx/op_511995 uc/20091117/op_511995 Mona Charen opinion Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT Mona Charen - President Obama, who nearly prostrated himself before the king of Saudi Arabia last April, has once again bowed low to a monarch — this time to the emperor of Japan. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politicsopinion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20091117/cm_rcp/gop_dark_horses_for2012 realclearpolitics/20091117/gop_dark_horses_for2012 RealClearPolitics.com opinion Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT RealClearPolitics.com - Three years before the 2008 election, Barack Obama was a freshman Senator from Illinois who had wowed the crowd with his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politicsopinion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucgg/20091117/cm_ucgg/obamanavigatestrickyseasinchina ucgg/20091117/obamanavigatestrickyseasinchina Georgie Anne Geyer opinion Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:58:30 GMT Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- If the Obama administration's new policy toward China, which is tiresomely called "strategic reassurance," sounds more than a little like an old married couple's muted anniversary wish, that may be because it is.