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links for 2008-04-30

• The House GOP’s Fiscal Integrity Task Force - John Hawkins, Right Wing News

  I got together with Thaddeus McCotter, Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee to talk about the new GOP Fiscal Integrity Task Force that has been announced in the House.

  (tags: republicans congress spending)

• Increasing Supply Brings Prices Down - Mark Impomeni, Political Machine

  Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton both say that they can lower gas prices if they are elected president.

  (tags: energy obama hillary_clinton)

• The Right Call to Action on Health Care Reform - Greg D’Angelo, The Foundry

  Sen. John McCain issued a call to action on health care reform today. Despite what some political pundits and liberal critics in the media claim, McCain has it exactly right with his policy proposal.

  (tags: mccain 2008 health_care)

• McCain’s Progress - Editorial, Wall Street Journal

  The Grand Guignol between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has to end eventually, and then the public discomfort over health care will resurface as a genuine policy dispute between the Democratic and Republican nominees.

  (tags: mccain 2008 health_care)

• Voters Are Far from the Biggest Losers - Abigail Thernstrom, National Review Online

  For one of the most anticipated big decisions of the current Supreme Court term, the Indiana voter-ID ruling Monday is certainly a bit anti-climactic.

  (tags: voter_id scotus)

• We Should Study Conservatism In Schools - Barron YoungSmith, The New Republic

  It’s high time Americans start learning about the conservative movement.

  (tags: conservatism history politics)

• The Machinery of Hope - Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone

  It’s Presidents day, two weeks before the Texas primary, and Adam Ukman has come to the small city of San Marcos to train precinct captains for Barack Obama.

  (tags: obama 2008 web2.0)

• The First 21st-Century Campaign - Ronald Brownstein, National Journal

  In scope and sweep, tactics and scale, the marathon struggle between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton has triggered such a vast evolutionary leap in the way candidates pursue the presidency that it is likely to be remembered as the first true 21st-

  (tags: obama 2008 internet web2.0)

• Fast-Forwarding Networked Politics - Carrie Dann & Ronald Brownstein, National Journal

  Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign didn’t give Amanda Vaughn much notice last month when it asked the University of North Carolina junior to publicize a campus event featuring Chelsea Clinton.

  (tags: hillary_clinton obama 2008 web2.0 social_networking)