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21 Oct 2009
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The War Going on at Home

By: Kim Priestap
President Obama has chosen his battles. Not the battles in Afghanistan or Iraq. No, he is dithering and indecisive there. Instead, the president has identified and declared war on enemies much closer to home: free speech, the free press, and free enterprise. President Obama is not the first American president who has had to deal with large numbers of Americans protesting his policies. Anti-war protesters...
19 Oct 2009
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What Will It Cost to Service Our Massive Public Debt?

By: Rick Moran
Did you know that 40 cents out of every dollar you pay to the federal government in taxes goes to one item in the budget? It's interest we pay on our national debt. That's 40 cents we can't use to improve our military, fund Medicare or Social Security, pay down the national debt, or return to the people in tax cuts. The problem is that our payments on the debt are going to increase radically...
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18 Oct 2009
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How many jobs has Obama saved this month?

By: Cassy Fiano
It's clear to anyone with eyes to see that the stimulus package passed earlier this year was a miserable failure. Since Obama's push for health care reform over the past few months, little has been mentioned about the stimulus package. Everyone has been so preoccupied with health care that they've all but forgotten about the stimulus, and about whether or not it has worked. One of the main...
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18 Oct 2009
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Using the Past to See the Future

By: Duane Lester
When I sat down to write a column this week, I didn't know what I was going to write about, so I started scanning the headlines, looking for inspiration. I read quite a few stories on how the economy was recovering. That's inspiring. For example, a Bloomberg headline reads: Recession over, unemployment seen at 10 percent Reminds me of the old saying, "The Great Depression wasn't so...
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18 Oct 2009
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Obama's nobel

By: Michael Lewis
When candidate Obama gave a speech to hundreds of thousands of cheering Europeans last year in Berlin, even the vanquished Hillary Clinton piled on the criticism. Despite already having a sitting president, a puffed-up political tool globe-trotted the world apologizing for America's many flaws-like, you know, being the reason the whole European continent doesn't speak German. While all other...
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18 Oct 2009
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SAMUELSON: RESTARTING THE JOB MACHINE

By: Robert Samuelson
WASHINGTON -- What can government do to crank up America's creaky job machine? We'll be arguing ferociously about that in coming months, and the answer, frankly, isn't clear. Die-hard Keynesians insist that only more government spending and tax cuts will accelerate job growth. But many other economists fear that exploding federal debt -- incurred partly to pay for more spending and tax...
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18 Oct 2009
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BARONE: Unlike Obama, Americans reject European model

By: Michael Barone
An interesting paradox. Last year, America elected a president who, in attitudes and policies, is closer to the elites of Western Europe than any of his predecessors. Yet in the nine months that he has been in office, ordinary Americans have been moving away from those attitudes and policies and have increasingly embraced positions that over the years have made Americans distinctive from those in other...
15 Oct 2009
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KRAUTHAMMER: DEBACLE IN MOSCOW

By: Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON -- About the only thing more comical than Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize was the reaction of those who deemed the award "premature," as if the brilliance of Obama's foreign policy is so self-evident and its success so assured that if only the Norway Five had waited a few years, his Nobel worthiness would have been universally acknowledged. To believe this, you have to...
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