Arianna Huffington: In his otherwise excellent speech on Wednesday, the president showed that, when it comes to the plight of the middle class, he still doesn't get it. "Not everything we've done over the last two years has worked as quickly as we had hoped," he said, "and I am keenly aware that not all our policies have been popular." But the problem isn't that his economic policies have been slow to succeed or unpopular -- it's that they've been inadequate given the magnitude of the crisis. And, in his sit-down with George Stephanopoulos, he insisted that his administration has made "the right decisions to move this country forward after a very devastating recession." Can he really believe that, with unemployment at 9.6 percent, millions of homes foreclosed, and the middle class under assault? In any case, this appears to be the administration's story, and they are sticking to it -- come hell or a double-dip recession. Click here to read more.
Judge Phillips has forthrightly exercised her unquestionable moral authority and lived up to her mandate to defend our constitution against a most vicious domestic enemy: discrimination against honest Americans.
What could Obama possibly do that would mobilize his political base and put his opponents on the defensive? Appoint Elizabeth Warren to start running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau immediately.
Despite their latest legal win -- a well-deserved legal win -- Log Cabin Republicans are still an affront to all equality seeking groups.
Today's Congress is in the midst of a communications transformation, and suffers from public wrath and bitter internal division. The world's most powerful legislature is in trouble. Putting today's Republicans in charge will make it worse.
Work gives us a sense of productivity and self-esteem -- in addition to paying the bills -- but many of us work far more than we really need to in order to get these rewards.
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