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Austan Goolsbee to Leave Obama’s Economic Team (2)
Washington - For the second time in less than a year, the White House is looking for a new head of the Council of Economic Advisers after Austan Goolsbee …
General Keane Keen on Iran Attack
Celebrating a reunion with close friends of Fordham College (class of 1961) on a perfect June day in New York should be a time of little or no stress. …
Ongoing Crisis and Liberal Blindness
The double dip of this crisis is upon us. The latest data agree: the housing market has been in full double-dip mode for five months as home prices keep …
The Global Debt Crisis: How We Got in It and How to Get Out
(Photo: BillRhodes Photo / flickr) Countries everywhere are facing debt crises today, precipitated by the credit collapse of 2008. Public services are being slashed and public assets …
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Libyan Rebels Retake Town in West
TRIPOLI, Libya — Following a series of NATO airstrikes, rebel forces retook the western mountain town of Yafran on Monday, breaking a month-long siege by forces loyal to Col. …
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Make Companies’ Political Spending Transparent
President Obama is mulling an executive order to force big government contractors to disclose their political spending. He should issue it immediately. But he should go further - banning …
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News in Brief: Koch Brothers-Funded Group to Launch Campaign Blaming Obama for Gas Prices, and More
Koch Brothers-Funded Group to Launch Campaign Blaming Obama for Gas Prices
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Rick Santorum’s 12 Most Offensive Statements
This morning, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum (Republican) announced his candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination, telling ABC's George Stephanopoulos, "We are ready to announce that we are going …
Seymour Hersh: Despite Intelligence Rejecting Iran as Nuclear Threat, US Could Be Headed for Iraq Redux
Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, visits the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility on April 8, 2008. Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh recently published an article in The New Yorker that says …
How Peer Pressure Creates Social Change
People are rarely swayed by information alone. If they were, the cigarette industry would have collapsed when the first Surgeon General's report on smoking came out in 1964, and …