Despite President Obama’s impressive first term on the domestic front, with the recent financial reform bill joining health reform and last year’s stimulus measure as major accomplishments, the shaky recovery and high unemployment continue to bolster Republican prospects in this fall’s mid-term elections. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman reminds us that, when it comes …
The G-20 summit marked what could prove a historic turning point in economic history – a moment when the United States and its allies split over the near-term direction of economic policy, with potentially huge implications for the future prosperity and living standards for people the world over. Arriving in Toronto, U.S. leaders argued for …
A week from today, a federal judge in San Diego has an opportunity to right a grievous wrong – to reverse last year’s decision by the Department of Homeland Security to deny political asylum to a young Palestinian man who, over the course of a decade, prevented the deaths of potentially thousands of innocent people …
“This one is as clear as a bell,” Erskine Bowles, co-chairman of President Obama’s fiscal commission, told the National Governors Association on Sunday in describing the nation’s looming deficit and debt problem. Bowles was differentiating the fiscal challenge, which is plain for all to see, from the recent economic crisis of collapsing financial markets and …
Helen Thomas, who spent the bulk of her career as the dogged and distinguished White House correspondent for United Press International, will now be remembered as much for how she left journalism in disgrace – a rude and cranky Jew hater, spewing filth from her perch as a Hearst columnist. Her resignation yesterday was hardly …
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Here we go again. Israeli forces and pro-Palestinian activists clash, leaving nine activists dead and seven Israeli soldiers injured. Israel says it acted in self-defense, while Palestinian leaders charge Israel with launching a pre-meditated attack on an aid mission to Gaza. That the facts surrounding the skirmish on the seas around Gaza are in dispute …
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Debates about taxes and spending in America are fought on two levels, the ideological and the pragmatic. The first gets far more attention, but the second reflects an equally important feature of the American character. At the ideological level, Americans distrust government, worry when they think it’s growing too big and believe that it produces …