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Column: Ghosts of Christmas past seen in immigration debate
WASHINGTON — Charles Dickens’ "A Christmas Carol" is a gooey confection of seasonal sentiment. It also is an economic manifesto that Dickens hoped would hit with "twenty thousand times the force" of a political tract. It concerned a 19th-...Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Labor Markets, Immigration, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Holidays
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Pink line over Damascus
WASHINGTON — You know you're in trouble when you can't even get your walk-back story straight. Stung by the worldwide derision that met President Barack Obama's fudging and fumbling of his chemical-weapons red line in Syria, the White House leaked...Tags: Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Jay Carney, Weaponry, Bashar Assad
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Benghazi hearing give GOP another chance to target Hillary
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hoped she could segue quietly into private life as she pondered a presidential bid in 2016, that fantasy has been abruptly harpooned in the resurrection of the political squabble over the...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Hillary Clinton, Elections, Politics, Barack Obama
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10 things you might not know about hamburgers
May is National Hamburger Month, and the industry hopes you'll forget all about last month, when a Utah man attracted publicity by claiming he had a 14-year-old McDonald's hamburger that has never been refrigerated yet looks like new — no mold, no...
Tags: Gordon Brown, Metal and Mineral, Warren Buffett, McDonald's, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Farming: 'I know it when I see it'
In the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case Jacobellis v. Ohio, Justice Potter Stewart wrote a concurring opinion he hoped would establish a legal standard that protected every American’s right to free speech yet guarded “community standards”...Tags: Economic Indicator, Gross Domestic Product, Productivity, Political Corruption, U.S. Supreme Court
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Triple Crown thoroughbreds aren't running as fast
As Orb charged to the wire at Churchill Downs last weekend, he established his clear superiority to the other 18 thoroughbreds on horse racing's biggest stage, the Kentucky Derby. But compared to Derby champions of the past, Orb's time is less...
Tags: 2012 Summer Olympics, Sports, Physical Conditions, Michael Phelps, Horse and Harness Racing
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Anchee Min on her memoir, "The Cooked Seed"
In “Red Azalea,” her best-selling 1994 memoir, Anchee Min told the compelling story of her childhood and early adulthood in China during the Cultural Revolution. The daughter of former teachers who were reassigned to jobs as manual laborers in...Tags: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sesame Street (tv program), The Wall Street Journal, Teaching and Learning, Entertainment Events
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Retaliation suit against Montgomery County elementary school principle settles before trial
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — A lawsuit that accused a Montgomery County elementary school principal of retaliation has been settled just days before a trial was scheduled to begin. The Washington Post reports (http://wapo.st/15yU4U8 ) that the case was...Tags: Schools, Elementary Schools, Abusive Behavior, Montgomery County (Maryland)
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Taxing Internet sales
In 1998, when President Bill Clinton signed the bipartisan Internet Tax Freedom Act, which prohibited state and local taxation of Internet access and Internet-only services, the purpose was to promote the commercial potential of the Internet, especially...
Tags: Sales, Business, Harry Reid, Bill Clinton, The Wall Street Journal
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Private sales of homes, known as 'pocket listings,' are surging
WASHINGTON — How hot is hot when it comes to housing markets across the country right now? Crazy hot: Some houses sell within days, sometimes within hours, of listing. Then there are the growing numbers that sell even before they formally hit the...
Tags: Real Estate Sellers, Realty, Homes, Marketing, Real Estate Buyers
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Scholar's Bias Against Hispanics Dangerous
The Hartford CourantJason Richwine is a type in American politics. He holds a doctorate from Harvard. He writes studies, appears at conservative conferences in suit and tie, and expounds the same old nonsense about immigrants that we've been hearing since the Know Nothings...Tags: Minority Groups, Career and Workplace, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Immigration, Statue of Liberty
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Conservativism needs to purge eugenics obsession
Mary SanchezJason Richwine is a type in American politics. He holds a doctorate from Harvard. He writes studies, appears at conservative conferences in suit and tie, and expounds the same old nonsense about immigrants that we've been hearing since the Know...Tags: Minority Groups, Career and Workplace, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Immigration, Statue of Liberty
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