Democrats Split as House Backs War Funds

The House of Representatives agreed on Tuesday to provide $37 billion to continue financing America’s two wars, but the vote showed deepening divisions and anxiety among Democrats over the course of the nearly nine-year-old conflict in Afghanistan. The 308-to-114 vote, with strong Republican support, came after the leak of an archive of classified battlefield reports from Afghanistan that fueled new debate over the course of the war and whether President Obama’s counterinsurgency strategy could work.

Liberal? Progressive?

John McWhorter wrote an op-ed piece for today's NY Times discussing the terms Liberal and Progressive. In it he references an op-ed piece written by Timothy Garton Ash, on 25 January 2009 defining liberalism: A Liberal Translation.