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Fresh off the heels of President Obama’s first visit to and summit in Russia, the new White House administration will kick off its initial high-level dialogue with China on July 27th and 28th.

his Monday, July 20th, Cato hosted a discussion at Rayburn Office Building intended to discuss a new study by former Congressional Budget Office(CBO) Director June O’Neill.

In 2005, REAL ID was enacted in direct response of, and to comply with the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.

As a response to the recently posted review of Kirsten Olson’s book Wounded by School, John Loflin, author of the “Learner’s Bill of Rights” (with which Olson begins the book) recently emailed Accuracy in Media the following message.

Some in Washington view Obama’s efforts to revamp the health care sector as yet another example of the government interfering in the affairs of its citizens.

Canada is frequently referenced as a shining example of a government-run health care system.

Americans’ support for health reform legislation is waning in the midst of a strong push by congressional Democrats to pass new bills in the coming weeks, a new poll released July 15 said.

Since President Obama announced his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, the media has hailed the Puerto Rican federal court of appeals judge as a role-model for women and Hispanics. News coverage by the major networks has mainly focused on Sotomayor’s “inspiring” rags-to-riches upbringing and her “politically moderate” judicial record.

This Wednesday, the Brookings Institution convened three panels of experts to discuss the new relationship between Russia and Turkey, whose history of hostilities has apparently abruptly ground to a halt.

In a discussion that was intended to facilitate education about the “pros and cons of expanding the public (health care) plan,” the July 9th Brookings Institute’s Health Care Reform event featured three champions of “Obamacare” lauding and praising massive overhaul of the the U.S. health care system.

This Monday, the Senate Judiciary Committee began hearings on the candidacy of Sonia Sotomayor to be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Last Tuesday, at the weekly bloggers’ briefing hosted by the Heritage Foundation, Reps. John Shadegg (R-AZ) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) unveiled their vision of substantive health care reform as a competing model to use against the currently stalled Democratic version.