Tuesday's Daily Brief: GOP Budget Plan Promises To Repeal Obamacare, Cuts Medicaid; The Election For Pope Begins

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 GOP Budget Plan Promises To Repeal Obamacare, Cuts Medicaid POLITICS Most Controversial Part Of Obama's Gun Plan To Clear First Hurdle POLITICS Senate Democrats Unveil Government Funding Bill RELIGION And So The Election For Pope Begins CHICAGO 6-Month-Old Shot 5 Times Dies In The Hospital STYLE Taylor Swift Covers Not Selling On Newsstands As Strongly As You'd Think BLOG POSTS Daniel Ellsberg: A Salute to Bradley Manning, Whistleblower, As We Hear His Words for the First Time Today, the Freedom of the Press Foundation has published an audio recording of Bradley Manning's speech to a military court from two weeks ago, in which he gives his reasons and motivations behind leaking over 700,000 government documents to WikiLeaks. Eric E. Schmidt: America's Cities Are Innovating for the Future It's up to others, outside of Silicon Valley, well beyond the tech sector, to embrace an innovation agenda if we are truly to build a new economy -- and new future -- that will endure for generations. Thankfully, this is already happening in places that have historically been at the forefront of innovation: America's cities. Lisa Belkin: The Best Parenting Advice I Ever Received The best advice I ever received as a mother was "ask for help." It was given to me by one of the few of my friends who'd started this parenting thing before I had, and who'd been determined, she finally confessed, to make it look easy. Lewis Lapham: The Conquest of Nature Over the course of the last two centuries, animals have become all but invisible in the American scheme of things, drummed out of the society of their myth-making companions, gone from the rural as well as the urban landscape. Robert Scheer: It's Good to Be the Multinational Corporations Go offshore, young man, and avoid paying taxes. Plunder at will in those foreign lands, and if you get in trouble, Uncle Sam will come rushing to your assistance, diplomatically, financially and militarily, even if you have managed to avoid paying for those government services.

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