Monday's Daily Brief

Monday, June 27, 2011 Gaddafi Arrest Warrant Issued By International Criminal Court POLITICS Obama Meeting With Senate Leaders On Debt Ceiling CRIME Defense Says Prison Will Forcibly Medicate Tucson Shooting Suspect BUSINESS France's Christine Lagarde Poised To Become Next IMF Chief WORLD Convict Testifies He Believes Amanda Knox Is A Killer TECHNOLOGY Facebook Reportedly Hires iPhone, PlayStation Hacker BLOG POSTS Drew Westen: Three Ways Democrats Could Choose to Lose in 2012, and What They Can Do to Avoid It If Democrats continue on their self-destructive road to Republicanism, voters will see red in 2012. Only if self-interest happens to intersect with the public good will we see blue. John R. Talbott: How Obama Can Fix the Housing Market and the Economy If Obama doesn't do something to address the debt problems homeowners and the financial system face, the housing market will lie dormant for years, the economy will crawl along and Obama himself may join the ranks of the unemployed in 2012. Ricki Lake: Mothers Deserve Options Why does it matter if a mother's prenatal visits are 10 minutes long or last more than an hour? Why does it matter if the care provider at her birth is someone she has built a trusting relationship with over 9 months or a stranger-on-call? Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: While Gays Push to Marry, Heterosexuals Fear Commitment Gays marrying has nothing to do with heterosexuals divorcing and the real crisis in the American marriage is not that people of the same sex want to get hitched but that people of the opposite don't want to stay together. Jared Bernstein: The Budget Debate, and What Should Be Obvious If you dropped in from outer space and looked at the Republicans' budget, you would conclude that the big economic problem facing our nation is that poor people have too much income and rich people have too little.

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