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(1) Report: Obama will not demand public option from lawmakers.
Wow. What ever happened to Obama willing to be a one-term president in order to enact REAL health care reform? Remember my most recent column about mission not so accomplished in which [...]

1) Japan Throws the Bums Out: But does the new crowd have better ideas?

Japan’s Electoral Tsunami
By Mary Kissel, The Wall Street Journal
By Jeff Kingston, Foreign Policy
This was a change election in Japan just as the United States chose to go the new direction of Barack Obama after eight relatively unsuccessful years under George Bush. The type [...]