Please go here if you have having trouble vi | | | | April 27, 2012 | | | | THE BIG STORY, BY MATT TAYLOR Vice President Joe Biden continued to frame the fall campaign against Mitt Romney in a foreign policy address at New York University Thursday: "If you're looking for a bumper sticker to sum up how President Obama has handled what we inherited, it's pretty simple: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive....[I]f Gov. Romney had been president, could he have used the same slogan in reverse?" READ MORE
| | RYAN SHRUGGED
Rep. Paul Ryan became a right-wing hero for policies based on the philosophy of deceased novelist Ayn Rand -- absolute devotion to laissez-faire capitalism and the conviction that selfishness is a virtue. According to a new interview, however, Ryan has learned something about his heroine that ruined her allure. READ MORE
| | FEATURED COLUMN: NOAH FELDMAN
Can the police stop you and make you show your papers? In Europe, the answer has long been yes. On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court took up the issue -- and from what the justices said at oral argument, it seems the U.S. might soon be getting more European. Or at least one step closer to requiring a national ID card. READ MORE
| | ON THE WEB The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, up for debate in the House of Representatives today, has privacy activists, tech companies, security wonks and the Obama administration all jousting about what it means -- not only for security but Internet privacy and intellectual property. What would CISPA mean for Internet users? READ MORE
| | WAR ON WOMEN House Republicans determined to show women voters that GOP will protect their interests, announced plans on Wednesday to renew the Violence Against Women Act, the federal government's main domestic violence program. But the GOP proposal set up a possible showdown over a different version of VAWA advanced by Senate Democrats, which has been pending for several weeks. READ MORE
| | FEATURED COLUMN: CONNIE SCHULTZ Two and a half years ago, a house in a poor neighborhood in Cleveland made international headlines for the saddest of reasons. For 10 years, I lived only a couple of miles from this house, but I was in Hong Kong when I heard the news. I mention this only to convey the magnitude of the story -- and the horror of watching it unfold so many miles from home. READ MORE | | CARTOON OF THE DAY
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