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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Obama focuses on innovation By Patrick Tricker The Daily Cardinal
President Obama characterized America’s challenges as “our generation’s Sputnik moment” while calling for broad investment in infrastructure and reorganizing the federal government Tuesday during his State of the Union address. “We know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time,” Obama said. “We need to out-innovate, outeducate, and out-build the rest of the world. We have to make America the best place on Earth to do business. We need to take responsibility for our deficit, and reform our government. That’s how our people will prosper.” The president pledged to introduce legislation within months to reorganize the federal government but gave few details. He highlighted confusing and overlapping bureaucracy as a major cause of the coun-
try’s dwindling competitiveness. “The Interior Department is in charge of salmon while they’re in fresh water, but the Commerce Department handles them when they’re in saltwater,” Obama said. “I hear it gets even more complicated once they’re smoked.” The president supported reducing the deficit by reforming medical malpractice, letting Bush’s tax cuts for high income earners expire and vetoing any bill with earmarks, but warned against going too far. “Let’s make sure what we’re cutting is really excess weight,” Obama said. “Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded plane by removing its engine.” Obama advocated new American infrastructure without increasing domestic spending for at least for five years. He
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Students gather at the Rathskeller to watch President Barack Obama deliver his State of the Union address, in which he pledged to push policies that would support education and innovation. The president also discussed reducing the deficit and making major cuts in spending. pledged to put a million electric advancements will double U.S. Obama said. “The science wasn’t cars on the road by 2015, give 98 exports by 2014, in addition to there yet. NASA didn’t even percent of Americans high-speed creating new jobs. exist. But after investing in betInternet within five years, have 80 “Half a century ago, when the ter research and education, we percent of electricity come from Soviets beat us into space with didn’t just surpass the Soviets; we clean sources by 2035 and prepare the launch of a satellite called unleashed a wave of innovation 100,000 new teachers for class- Sputnik, we had no idea how that created new industries and rooms. He said he hopes these we’d beat them to the moon,” millions of new jobs.”
Ryan, Bachmann respond to speech By Steven Rosenbaum The Daily Cardinal
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Congressman Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, gave the Republican response, while congresswoman Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, gave her own Tea Party response.
Following President Obama’s State of the Union address, two conservative congressional figures took the national stage to express their views on the status of the government. Congressman Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, delivered the official Republican response. Ryan is the chair of the House Budget Committee, and the focus of his remarks was on federal spending, the national debt and fiscal responsibility. Traditionally, there is only one response to the president’s remarks, but Congresswoman Mi c h e l e Ba c h m a n n , R-Minnesota, made news when she announced she would deliver the Tea Party’s response. Bachmann also addressed eco-
nomic issues facing the country. Ryan’s response was more formal and straightforward, and the issues he addressed aligned with the national Republican platform. Bachmann also used background images and charts to highlight her speech. Ryan took aim at Obama’s health care reform act, which House Republicans voted to repeal last week. “Health care spending is driving the explosive growth of our debt. And the president’s law is accelerating our country toward bankruptcy,” Ryan said. The health care law has also been a target of the Tea Party. Many Tea Party-backed freshmen members of Congress who were voted in on a wave of anti-government sentiment campaigned hard against the
law, and Bachmann urged the president to support the repeal. Bachmann and Ryan also emphasized the core conservative values of limited government and individual liberties. “We believe in lower taxes, a limited view of government and the exceptionalism of America. And I believe America is the indispensable nation,” Bachmann said. Ryan expressed his belief that the federal government has grown too large during President Obama’s tenure, and outlined his vision for the new budget. “Our forthcoming budget is our obligation to you—to show you how we intend to do things differently, how we will cut spending to get the debt down, help create jobs and prosperity and reform government programs,” Ryan said.
Man charged with possession of child pornography
Renowned Dr. William Clancy returns to UW as sports medicine chair
A 22-year-old Madison man appeared in court Tuesday after being charged with 21 counts of possessing child pornography. The defendant, Michael J. Anderson, was arrested after Wisconsin Department of Justice agents executed a search warrant of Anderson’s parents’ house located at the 100 block of Lynnhaven Road, according to the criminal complaint. When Special Agent Jesse
Dr. William Clancy, who developed ACL and PCL reconstruction techniques now used worldwide, is returning to the UW-Madison community to treat student athletes and serve as the new chair of the sports medicine division at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Clancy will oversee 10 doctors who treat injuries and work to improve the performance of athletes of all ages in Wisconsin
Crowe showed up at the house to execute the warrant, Anderson said he had “nothing to hide” and showed Crowe where his “stuff ” was at, according to authorities. The defendant told Crowe his laptop was password protected and believed no one else used the laptop except for him. Anderson allegedly used the terms “jailbait,” “Lolita” and “pedo” in the search engine when he was looking for 16- to 18-year-
old girls. According to authorities, one-third of the image Anderson downloaded involved people under the age of 18. Anderson allegedly told Crowe he downloaded child pornography even though he knew it was illegal to possess. The defendant told Crowe adult pornography “can get kind of mundane, it’s not any special thrill,” the criminal pornography page 3
and northern Illinois. C l a n c y, who worked at UW-Madison from 19741989, founded the sports medicine program at UW-Madison. CLANCY C l a n c y, clancy page 3
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”