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Monday, February 6, 2012

Capitals’ power play proves advantageous — for Hurricanes

The Capitals didn’t do much right in their 3-0 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday night in Raleigh; the 30-save showing by Tomas Vokoun may be the only positive note that carries over from the contest.

But what jumped out the most in the latest of what has become a pattern of ugly road games was how many chances Washington allowed while on their own power play.

“Our power play, we gave up five or six scoring chances I think, a couple breakaways and we were very sloppy — bad decisions,” Coach Dale Hunter said. “Our power play gave up more chances than we got. .?.?. It was self-inflicted. We turned pucks over, made bad decisions on entry where we turned them over, and it cost us.”

Washington’s desire to make the perfect play rather than search for any opportunity to put the puck on net played a key role. The Capitals would telegraph passes through the offensive zone that were easily picked off by the Carolina penalty-killers, which in turn led to short-handed scoring chances.

Then there were some of the poor decisions, one of which led directly to Jussi Jokinen’s short-handed tally 12:43 into the contest. John Carlson was bringing the puck up through the center of Washington’s zone but rather than guarding the puck well he left himself open to be poke-checked by Carolina captain Eric Staal, who swatted the puck away from Carlson and set up Jokinen for a clean breakaway.

That play happened on Washington’s first power play of the game. It was a trend that continued throughout the contest.

“We were getting outworked on the power play. We were pathetic out there,” Troy Brouwer said. “They’re outworking us on our own power play. That’s why they scored a goal. We were just lazy — didn’t get to loose pucks, we didn’t get open for guys. We made ill-advised plays, tough plays that we haven’t been making.

“Tonight we got outworked,” Brouwer continued. “We tried to make cute plays through the seams. I was a culprit of that tonight as well, we’re not pointing fingers at anybody, we’ve just got to collectively work harder and outwork the penalty kill.”

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Obama seeks more power to merge agencies, streamline government

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Obama seeks more power to merge agencies, streamline government

Video: President Obama announces he will seek the power to consolidate parts of the federal government, proposing a first step of merging several trade- and commerce-related agencies. (Jan. 13)

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After a year of interminable feuds with congressional Republicans who made smaller, cheaper federal government a political crusade, President Obama on Friday signaled his intention to do some sail-trimming of his own.

Obama asked Congress for the authority to consolidate the roles of several federal agencies which he said would lead to streamlined services and a smaller government workforce.

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The proposal comes at a politically opportune moment for the president, who has faced sustained Republican criticism that his administration has failed to tame a bloated federal bureaucracy.

With an eye squarely on his reelection campaign, Obama announced that he would initially focus on merging sprawling entities that deal with small businesses in a bid to save $3 billion by eliminating more than 1,000 jobs over the next decade.

Almost a year ago, Obama promised in his State of the Union address to create a leaner, more efficient federal bureaucracy. Since then, Republicans — both on Capitol Hill and in the presidential campaign — have charged that the administration’s health-care, environmental and financial reforms have added layers of red tape and costs at the worse possible time.

For a president who has spent months pushing his $447 billion jobs bills, the proposal sought to establish that he is also committed to reducing spending over the long term. His announcement came a day after he notified Congress of his intent to raise the national debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion to cover increased U.S. spending commitments.

Obama noted before an audience of small-business owners at the White House that the federal bureaucracy includes five different entities involved in housing and more than a dozen that regulate food safety.

“No business or nonprofit leader would allow this kind of duplication or unnecessary complexity in their operations,” Obama said. “So why is it okay in our government? It’s not. It has to change.”

Obama is scheduled to deliver this year’s State of the Union address on Jan. 24, and Republican critics, while embracing the spirit of paring the government’s size, questioned whether Obama was scrambling to make good on his pledge with his reelection effort looming.

“A year after raising the issue .?.?. it’s interesting to see the president finally acknowledge that Washington is out of control,” said Don Stewart, spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

Other lawmakers expressed concern that the reorganization could harm U.S. trade policy, noting that the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, which is among the agencies the president would consolidate, was established to serve a distinct role.

In a joint statement, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) questioned whether the legislation would hamper the government’s ability “to aggressively open new markets to American-made goods and services and create U.S. jobs.”

Yet the White House was banking on muted opposition from GOP lawmakers, because the consolidation proposal goes right to the Republicans’ core ideological belief that the government is too large.

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Supreme Court case tests FCC’s power to police TV indecency

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View Photo Gallery — ?These television shows are some of the worst recent decency offenders, as chosen by the Parents Television Council, which monitors programs for profanity, nudity, sexual content and violence.

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LOS ANGELES — Researchers at the Parents Television Council have helpful drop-down menus on their computers loaded with just about every profanity and dirty slang term imaginable.

They are handy shortcuts — there are additional ones for violent and sexual content — as the nonprofit group’s headphone-wearing analysts monitor every network prime-time entertainment broadcast for offensive language, bleeped profanity, flashes of nudity, threesomes and gore.

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The council documents the increasing coarseness of television broadcasts to rate shows and pressure advertisers and provides a one-click process for supporters to file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission. More than 1.4 million complaints are pending.

But the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Tuesday about whether the FCC should still have a role in policing the nation’s airwaves or whether its indecency regulations violate guarantees of free speech and due process.

The networks have argued successfully in lower courts that in a revolutionized world in which they exist “side by side” with cable channels that are beyond the FCC’s regulation, singling them out is not only nonsensical but unconstitutional.

“Today, broadcasting is neither uniquely pervasive nor uniquely accessible to children, yet broadcasters are still denied the same basic First Amendment freedoms as other media,” Washington lawyer Carter G. Phillips, who represents Fox and other networks, told the court in a brief.

“To the average American viewer, broadcasting is just one source among hundreds in a media-saturated environment, a mere press of a button on the remote control away from other, fully protected sources,” he wrote.

The Obama administration is defending the FCC’s powers. If anything, it told the court, the new media world requires continued federal oversight of the public airwaves to provide a haven for parents and children from the anything-goes world of cable and the Internet.

“Generations of parents have relied on indecency regulation to safeguard broadcast television as a relatively safe medium for their children,” U.S. Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. wrote in the government’s brief.

The “uniquely pervasive” language in Fox’s brief comes from the Supreme Court’s 1978 decision in FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, in which it upheld the commission’s decision that an afternoon radio broadcast of comedian George Carlin’s 1973 monologue about words that could not be said on television violated indecency standards.

The court found that the FCC was within constitutional boundaries to police the radio and television airwaves during the times children would probably be listening, which was interpreted between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.

Parents Television Council President Tim Winter said that even though nearly nine of 10 households have cable, broadcast channels remain paramount: The lion’s share of the country’s most watched shows reside there, commanding the most money from advertisers and bringing the highest salaries to the stars and producers.

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