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What good is it to be right if you’re all alone? President Nicolas Sarkozy of France wants his country to lead the world by example in restricting bankers’ bonuses. As usual, Mr. Sarkozy is deploying populism in his latest campaign to “moralize...
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A website has published what it says are 573,000 intercepted pager messages sent during the 9/11 attacks in the United States.
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My calendar year runs from one Thanksgiving to another.
Since the last Thanksgiving, I have lost my father. Some days, I still wait to wake up from my nightmare even...
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Anti-Semitism is rampant all over the world, and it doesn’t help that the anti-Zionist/anti-Israeli movement is so vocal and so vitriolic. Regardless of whether...
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This Thanksgiving comes at a time when the U.S. Congress is debating on whether to enact a European-style, socialist health care scheme.
Despite its faults, the U.S....
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Personally, if I have one critique of Obama and his troops is that they are not pompous enough. Well, finally The One has answered my prayers and held his first State...
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President Obama - who ran and won election on a anti-war platform - is doubling down on his surge in Afghanistan. Obama is sending 40,000 more U.S. troops to...
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You know there’s a serious economic crisis when remittances which historically have been sent from the United States to Mexico suddenly shift gears and begin...
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Maureen Dowd’s New York Times column this week details the fall of outgoing White House council Greg Craig, and drops an interesting tidbit concerning Caroline...
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The Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks and representatives of almost 300 alleged victims of clergy abuse have agreed on a settlement of almost $10 million.
The agreement...
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Each day at five, staff members of the Humane Society of Elkhart County close the animal shelter and hold a meeting. And each day, like clockwork, they begin hearing a...
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When he talks to the nation next week about his Afghanistan strategy, President Obama will face the central challenge of explaining why he is escalating an...
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Lincoln University students now have one more hurdle to pass before they graduate: losing weight. According to a recently instituted requirement, university students...
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Phillip Carter, the top detainee affairs policy appointee at the Pentagon, has quit his post after just seven months on the job, a Defense Department spokesman said...
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Indian intelligence agencies launched a comprehensive media and psychological warfare against Pakistan prior to their Prime Minister Visit to USA. In this connection,...
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Barack Obama will wipe out his efforts to save the US economy if he sends more troops to Afghanistan, a senior Democrat warned last night.
David Obey, chairman of the...
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Federal officials on Monday unsealed terrorism-related charges against men they say were key actors in a recruitment effort that led roughly 20 young Americans to join...
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These days, 24-year-old Delonta Spriggs spends much of his time cooped up in his mother’s one-bedroom apartment in Southwest Washington, the TV blaring soap...
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President Barack Obama is expected to announce a “sizeable force” increase in US troops for Afghanistan early next week, tentatively December 1, according...
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The U.S. president began his term with high expectations in the Middle East. Even prior to his inauguration, many Arabs and Muslims expected that given President...
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A bitter dispute over abortion that prompted Rhode Island’s Roman Catholic bishop to ask Rep. Patrick Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion has revealed the depth...
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Mao Tse-tung tried to stamp the custom out as a relic of feudalism, but the return of capitalism to China has also meant a major comeback for the concubine. And for the...
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While the economic downturn is affecting almost every nation and industry in this world, and everyone is scrambling for jobs and money, it would be a good time to do...
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Dressed in white or yellow T-shirts and black slacks, the dozens of people at Wednesday’s ceremony looked like typical South Korean company trainees. But the high...
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It seemed so obvious for a few years, back when the Berlin Wall had just fallen, that democratic capitalism would be the only way left for a developing country to...
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Stephen Colbert and his astute topical show reminded me of an article in The Economist I read about Objectivism founder and novelist Ayn Rand. Ms. Rand is most famous...
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Growing up in America I believed, as with many. that the “forgotten man” is the when whom politicians always speaking about helping. The “man”...
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President Barack Obama - prior to his election the most liberal senator- wasted scant time before his announced his intention to raise taxes on the wealthy.
For...
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After injecting sums with gazillion zeros into the sclerotic global financial system, European-style socialism and communist China’s capitalism are sounding the death...
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Capitalism as we used to know it is on its deathbed. And those who predicted that the old brand, the unfettered, American-promoted system, was a danger to the world,...
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Germany will provide as much as 500 billion euros ($681 billion) in loan guarantees and capital to bolster the banking system, the country’s biggest government...
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Bretton Woods was the system of global financial management set up at the end of the second World War to ensure the interests of capital did not smother wider social...
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A Secret Memo from John McCain to Sarah Palin
Dear Sarah,
You are doing a good job distracting them. Today, I want you to walk up to the podium and call for the...
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Is it really a fact or we just perceive it that way. Was the USA always a superpower or it has just behaved like one, I mean here the attitude. Brand America is...
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The United States government has pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into private banks and insurance companies to essentially save the United States and world...
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In many ways, America has remained the forefront of the capitalist movement. If there is a laboratory where research on capitalism is taking place it is here in...
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With regards to the differences between the families of today and those of before, various causes for the deteriorating family ties can be studied on standard averages...
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In a new tape to be released soon to the media, it is expected that Al Qaeda will call for the use of chemical, nuclear, and biological weapons against the West.
This...
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Whatever happened to the Great Depression? Not the real one from 70 years ago, the lost decade of unimagined misery and Steinbeckian angst, the worst period in the...
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Recently we are experiencing a great sense of exhilaration and excitement on the front pages of all news papers. This whole excitement has produced a vehement amount of...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, gestures during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. French President Nicolas Sarkozy hit out Thursday at financial speculators for...
