Political Goodness Calendar

3/30/09: President Barack Obama signed legislation Monday setting aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as protected wilderness. ... Also in the legislation signed by Obama is a provision named for "Superman" actor Christopher Reeve that provides for paralysis research and care for persons with disabilities. ... The law - a collection of nearly 170 separate measures - represents one of the largest expansions of wilderness protection in a quarter-century. The measure confers the government's highest level of protection on land in nine states - almost as much wilderness as designated during the past eight years combined.

3/30/09: Jim Webb stepped firmly on a political third rail last week when he introduced a bill to examine sweeping reforms to the criminal justice system. Yet he emerged unscathed, a sign to a political world frightened by crime and drug issues that the bar might not be electrified any more. -- I'm unbelievably thrilled about this. I'm intensely passionate about the need to reform our system, and I've had very little hope in that regard for a long time.

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