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Letters: Government vs. economic growth
Re "Smart spending isn't," Opinion, Feb. 5 Mostly I disagreed with former GOP Rep. Ron Paul, but he was right when he consistently pointed out that what the government subsidizes increases in price. And that, whether we like it or not, is "growth."...Tags: Productivity, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Labor Markets, Barack Obama
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Navy SEAL sniper's Texas shooting death stirs controversy
Chris Kyle, by all measures, was one of the most decorated and talented soldiers in American history. He was also a victim of gun crime who was against gun control, and his death has already become cannon fodder in an emotional, rancorous debate. Kyle,...
Tags: Criminals, Interior Policy, YouTube, Human Interest, Shootings
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Kelly Clarkson's inauguration performance comes with political baggage
When Kelly Clarkson belts out the patriotic standard "My Country, 'Tis of Thee” at President Obama’s second inauguration on Monday, it’s safe to assume the performance will be memorable, considering Clarkson’s well-documented vocal...
Tags: Lady Gaga, Mitt Romney, Twitter, Inc., Kelly Clarkson, Barack Obama
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A primer for the 113th Congress
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.WASHINGTON – With the “fiscal cliff” averted despite the failure to solve key budget issues, the 112th Congress will close out its widely criticized term and the 113th Congress will be sworn in Thursday. The outgoing Congress was...Tags: John Boehner, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Interior Policy, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Dennis J. Kucinich
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Central issues of Election 2012
Whoever wins the presidential election in November will confront urgent problems: Should tax cuts scheduled to expire be renewed? Should federal spending be cut to reduce the deficit or would that weaken an already lackluster economy? After one of the...
Tags: Public Finance, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Health Insurance, Income Tax, Environmental Issues
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Daum: Jesse Ventura, 'the Body' politic
Don't deny it: This presidential race, for all its minor dust-ups, has mostly been a snore, a bloodless standoff between two men who, despite their differences, are both essentially uptight squares whose wives are forever trumpeting how poor they used...
Tags: Howard Stern , Wolf Blitzer, Sean Hannity, Bain Capital, LLC, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Neither Romney nor Obama can fix the frenzy in the Arab streets
Last week, simultaneous with a mob attack on the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and the slaying of an American diplomat in Benghazi, Libya, Mitt Romney tried to lay blame for the incidents on what he said was President Obama's weak foreign policy. He was aiming to...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Religion and Belief, U.S. Embassy, YouTube, Benghazi
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McManus: Who's still undecided?
Do you know how you'll vote in November's presidential election? I thought so. For all we're hearing about the importance of undecided voters, there aren't many of them left. In an ABC News/Washington Post poll released this week, for example, only 2%...
Tags: Undecided Voters, Voting, Bain Capital, LLC, Science and Technology, Medicare
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Best and worst of Romney's Republican National Convention
Despite the rainy weather, Tampa, Fla., was good for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan; a bit less so for Clint Eastwood. As the cleaning crew sweeps up the confetti and burst balloons, here are the highlights of the 2012 Republican National Convention…...
Tags: Chris Christie, Democratic Party, Elections, Mike Huckabee, Marco Rubio
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Tea Party museum reopening in Boston, in time for election year
Perhaps it's just a coincidence, but a museum dedicated to the 1773 Boston Tea Party that has been dormant for more than a decade is set to reopen this week, in time for the presidential election year. The Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum is set to open...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Tea Party Movement, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Museums
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Europeans, Canadians baffled by U.S. furor on healthcare
World NowAs the news spread that the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld the law and its requirement that most people buy health insurance, some people across Europe took to Twitter to ask: What’s the big deal? In Europe, where governments take a bigger role in... -
Republican leaders let Rush Limbaugh dominate their party
George Will, one of the last lions of the right wing whose conservatism is a philosophy rather than a pathology, has heaped scorn on Republican leaders for their cowardly obeisance to Rush Limbaugh.
Sunday morning on ABC’s "This Week," Will said...Tags: Mitt Romney, This Week (tv program), Parties and Movements, Radio, Labor Legislation
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