Opposition To Health Mandate Softens When Details Are Clearer

Objections to the mandate fell to 35 percent when pollsters told respondents who initially were against the requirement that most people who get coverage through their employers would not be affected.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/03/18/134654092/opposition-to-health-mandate-softens-when-details-are-clearer?ft=1&f=1014

Michelle Bachmann Lou Dobbs Meg Whitman Joe Wilson

Ridiculed YouTube Singer Rebecca Black Grabs A Mountain Of Bull By The Horns

Singer Rebecca Black was looking for something when she posted a video on YouTube. But it probably wasn't instant infamy for making what some people have told her is the worst video ever. Surprisingly, she's chosen not to be all that bothered.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/03/18/134652534/ridiculed-youtube-singer-rebecca-black-grabs-a-mountain-of-bull-by-the-horns?ft=1&f=1057

Joe Scarborough Victor Davis Hanson Erick Erickson Chris Ruddy

At Crippled Reactors, Is Time On Our Side?

Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant hasn't been rocked by major incident in a couple of days. But the situation hasn't really improved, either. Are we in a "race against time," as the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog put it, or can we start to breathe easier as time goes on? The answer seems to be: It depends.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/18/134659276/at-crippled-reactors-is-time-on-our-side?ft=1&f=1007

Frank Luntz Jeff Flake Huma Abedin Justin Amash

Democracy With Limitations

William Murchison, RealClearPolitics
THE CONSERVATIVE FOUNDATIONS OF THE LIBERAL ORDERBy Daniel J. MahoneyIntercollegiate Studies Institute, $26.95, 208 pagesIt would be fair to say of Daniel J. Mahoney that a political scientist with his acute sense of analytical balance should be better known than he is. But then you get to thinking - balance? That's not what we're about in the modern world, is it? We're about pushing ideas - democracy, say - as far as they can be pushed until, well, we won't know until we get there, will we? Receive news alertsThat, when it comes to democracy, is just what worries Mr....

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/19/democracy_with_limitations_109262.html

Huma Abedin Justin Amash Nick Ayers Jeremy Bash

NPR Funding Battle Stirs Audience

Host Michel Martin and the program's "digital media guy" Lee Hill review listener perspectives on attempts in Congress bar federal funding for NPR. They also hear listeners' childhood experiences with bullying following a conversation on White House efforts to prevent the practice in schools.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/18/134656812/NPR-Funding-Battle-Stirs-Audience?ft=1&f=1057

Hannah Pingree Jared Polis Ben Rhodes Cedric Richmond

New Republic: Stop Comparing ? Libya Is Not Iraq

In recent weeks, some experts have compared Libya, the country currently marred by conflict and on the brink of civil war, to similar crises in different nations. But Lawrence F. Kaplan of The New Republic argues that the U.S. should stop comparing Libya to past conflicts and consider the crisis on its own terms.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/18/134649115/new-republic-stop-comparing-libya-is-not-iraq?ft=1&f=1057

CLIFFORD MAY PEGGY NOONAN TONY PERKINS FRED THOMPSON