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Republicans Announce Jobs Plan – This Time It’s Different
Republicans announced something they called a “jobs plan” today. This time it's different. It really is. This time it really will create jobs instead of just handing even more …
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Execution First … Trial Later: Congress and the National Labor Relations Board
Legal procedure professors who taught current members of Congress must be pulling their hair out. Lately their former students sound more like the Queen of Hearts with their threats …
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Chevron Banks on a Profitable Political Agenda
With 43 lobbyists and a federal influence-peddling budget of at least $35 million this past election cycle, Chevron must have an ambitious agenda for the politicians in Washington, DC. …
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The American Manufacturing Crisis and Why It Matters
Despite the denial chorus of the same politicians, financiers, and economists who told us prior to 2008 that our financial sector was fine, the American public is increasingly aware …
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Welcome to the Violent World of Mr. Hopey Changey
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden shake hands with the troops following the president's remarks at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, May 6, 2011. (Photo: Pete Souza / White …
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Fixing the FCC, America’s Broken Regulator
FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker announced earlier this month that she's leaving the agency for a job as the senior vice president of government affairs for Comcast-NBC Universal. The …
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They Love Each Other
(Photo: Mktp / Flickr) I am in love with my wife. I love her, and am also in love with her, and those are two very separate …
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Time to Crackdown on Child-Focused Ads
Is Snoop Dogg the new Joe Camel? Is Ronald McDonald? What about Facebook — has that website become synonymous with an infamous tobacco industry cartoon that preyed on unsuspecting …
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For Emerging Economies, a Dilemma Becomes a “Trilemma“
(Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times) Vladimir Putin says we’re hooligans; Brazil accuses the United States of engaging in “currency wars”; and the Chinese are, …
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A Matter of Conscience
Washington - Let's suppose the new doping allegations against cyclist Lance Armstrong are true. Should his seven Tour de France victories be marked with an asterisk, or even erased? …