 | Editorial Board: U-Va. president's ouster still needs clarifying Oct 24th 2012, 23:49 LITTLE WONDER THAT a regional accrediting commission still has questions for the University of Virginia about the tumult over leadership that roiled the school four months ago. Just as the efforts to oust President Teresa Sullivan were opaque, so too have been the subsequent explanations. University leaders need to cooperate with the commission's demand for better information — not because of the remote possibility the school will lose accreditation but because there can be no real closure to the unsettling events of June until all the answers are known. Read full article >>   | | Editorial Board: Syria's war spills into Lebanon Oct 24th 2012, 23:36 DURING A visit to Washington in late August, Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, the intelligence chief of Lebanon's internal security forces, offered a grim assessment of the civil war raging in neighboring Syria and its likely impact on the region. Dictator Bashar al-Assad, he told us, still had a chance to outlast the rebellion against him, though "it will take a couple of years and more than 100,000 killed." For the Assad regime, he added, "one of the solutions of the Syrian conflict is to move it outside Syria. He survives by making it a regional conflict." Read full article >>   | | The U.S. economy is recovering well Oct 24th 2012, 23:32 The International Monetary Fund's latest World Economic Outlook makes for gloomy reading. Growth projections have been revised downward almost everywhere, especially in Europe and the big emerging markets such as China. And yet, when looking out over the next four years — the next presidential term — the IMF projects that the United States will be the strongest of the world's rich economies. U.S. growth is forecast to average 3 percent, much stronger than that of Germany or France (1.2 percent) or even Canada (2.3 percent). Increasingly, the evidence suggests that the United States has come out of the financial crisis of 2008 in better shape than its peers — because of the actions of its government. Read full article >>   | | How the right wing lost in 2012 Oct 24th 2012, 23:30 The right wing has lost the election of 2012. The evidence for this is overwhelming, yet it is the year's best-kept secret. Mitt Romney would not be throwing virtually all of his past positions overboard if he thought the nation were ready to endorse the full-throated conservatism he embraced to win the Republican nomination. Read full article >>   | | October Surprises aren't what they used to be Oct 24th 2012, 23:30 October Surprises just aren't what they used to be. Carnival barker and Mitt Romney surrogate Donald Trump (R-Absurdity) set the gossip mill churning this week when he declared he would make a "major announcement" about President Obama. "It's very big — bigger than anybody would know," he told Fox News Channel. Read full article >>   | | Alexandra Petri: CNN's hormonal lady voters Oct 24th 2012, 23:12 Oh dear. CNN has managed to dig up one of those mysterious Studies that emerge from time to time to enrage the Internet. The article begins: "While the campaigns eagerly pursue female voters, there's something that may raise the chances for both presidential candidates that's totally out of their control: women's ovulation cycles. Read full article >>   | | Alexandra Petri: Alternatives to the Trump October Surprise Oct 24th 2012, 22:20 Instead of paying attention to Donald Trump's Big Announcement Wednesday, I hope you did any number of things. I hope you had a nice sandwich. I hope you went outside and looked at all the trees in their fall splendor. I hope you telephoned your grandmother and told her that you loved her. I hope you read a great book. I hope you met a cat you liked. I hope you complimented a stranger on an elevator and didn't have to make conversation for too many floors afterwards. Read full article >>   | | The president's favorability falters Oct 24th 2012, 22:13 A quick read of the "new" Obama blueprint for the future that the president's campaign released Tuesday, suggesting this was his bold vision for the future, is little more than silly, stale platitudes. I guess the campaign thought that it would get plenty of coverage from announcing the plan and that very few voters would bother to look at it closely. Read full article >>   | | Homeless amid prosperity Oct 24th 2012, 21:43 The Oct. 21 Metro article "More students homeless in Fairfax" should be shocking to all of us. As the leader of a local nonprofit that serves people who are homeless, I think it's important for everyone to understand that poverty and homelessness are a reality for too many children in our wealthy region — and that solutions exist to help families get back on their feet. Read full article >> | | Oct 24th 2012, 21:43 During the third presidential debate, Mitt Romney reminded us all that these are uncertain times. No doubt he figured that this would prove him the perfect candidate for these times, since his say-anything plans and policies are nothing if not uncertain. Read full article >> | | Greg Sargent: How the Obama team views the race's final stretch, ctd. Oct 24th 2012, 20:07 Based on what I've been able to learn, this, from Mark Halperin, is as accurate a depiction of how the Obama team views the final stretch of the race as anything I've seen (via Taegan Goddard): Chicago remains sufficiently funded and emboldened by its own polling to compete for the final two weeks in all nine of the battlegrounds: Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia in the South; New Hampshire in the North; Iowa, Ohio, and Wisconsin in the Midwest; and Nevada and Colorado in the West. As they have in the past, Obama campaign officials say they expect to win a high percentage of those states and conceivably could sweep all nine. Read full article >>   | | Jennifer Rubin: A serious speech in the middle of a campaign Oct 24th 2012, 18:30 Leave it to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). While the president is talking Big Bird, binders and birth control, Ryan is delivering a serious and substantive speech at Cleveland University today. In remarks prepared for delivery, he addresses social mobility, opportunity and how conservative policies can help boost the poor up the social ladder. Amazingly with record poverty, the president during this entire campaign has not talked about this subject.President Obama has used the poor as a prop in his partisan attacks ("47 percent"), but never laid out a comprehensive agenda. Read full article >>   | |
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