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Op-Ed: Too Little of a Good Thing - Paul Krugman »
Posted by: deathray 3 weeks, 5 days ago in Business & Finance
The good news is that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a k a the Obama stimulus plan, is working just about the way textbook ...
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GM CEO Rick Wagoner to resign - Mar. 29, 2009 »
Posted by: engineer 8 months ago in Business & Finance
General Motors Chief Executive Rick Wagoner will resign as part of the federal government's plan to bail out the struggling automaker, White House and ...
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The Right's textbook "surrender to terrorists" »
Posted by: Tumultuous 1 week, 6 days ago in Political Opinion
Understanding and Combatting Terrorism, USMC Major S.M. Grass, 1989:
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Terrorism is a psychological weapon and is directed to create a general climate of fear ...Read (193) | Share | Discuss (81) | Read Full Story at salon.com
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Government May Seek More Auto Givebacks »
Posted by: FunnyBoyz 8 months ago in News
(DETROIT) — The Obama administration is likely to demand deeper concessions from Chrysler LLC and General Motors Corp. in exchange for additional federal loans, a person ...
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The Public is Sick of Govts Wasteful Spending »
Posted by: FairNBalanced 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Unlike in the 1958 cult movie "The Blob," which featured a creature from outer space that consumed everything to which it attached itself, government is ...
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Freddie Mac: Government's New Black Hole? »
Posted by: myfairlady 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
AIG is to date the most expensive corporate bailout in American history, requiring $180 billion in government funds. But it may soon have competition. Last ...
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Torture and Impunity in Iraqi Prisons »
Posted by: populist 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Part of the deadly serious problem with the Obama administration’s position on (not) holding accountable CIA torturers, their lawyers, and the Bush administration officials ...
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HHS admits overstating flu-vaccine availability - Washington Times »
Posted by: gbudavid 3 weeks, 2 days ago in Health & Fitness
Two top officials at the Department of Health and Human Services acknowledge that the government had over promised and made poor judgments on vaccination production ...
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China accused over global computer spy ring »
Posted by: myfairlady 8 months ago in News
An enormous electronic espionage programme run from servers in China has been used to spy on computers in more than 100 countries, according to two ...
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Marjiuana the prescription to Palm Beach County budget woes? »
Posted by: calitennflo 3 weeks, 4 days ago in Political News
Marijuana could help solve local governments’ cash flow problems and ease jail overcrowding, according to Palm Beach County Commissioner Burt Aaronson.
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Ending prosecutions could also ...Read (65) | Share | Discuss (2) | Read Full Story at weblogs.sun-sentinel.com
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Tax Bill Appeals Take Rising Toll on Governments »
Posted by: engineer 4 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Homeowners across the country are challenging their property tax bills in droves as the value of their homes drop, threatening local governments with another big ...
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Tax havens eye uncertain future after concessions »
Posted by: engineer 8 months ago in News
That question is of more than artistic interest to the family that rules the tiny principality and their 35,000 subjects. Prince Alois agreed earlier ...
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The 2nd Amendment and the States »
Posted by: populist 5 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
There are few topics that can divide people who are normally ideological bedfellows like the legal doctrine of the “incorporation” of the Bill of Rights ...
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What Big Government is All About »
Posted by: populist 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Thomas Jefferson wrote, The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. Two hundred years later, James M. Buchanan ...
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Under God: AIG, Sharia and Uncle Sam »
Posted by: Progressive 6 months ago in Religion
A federal judge in Michigan has declined to dismiss an ex-Marine's lawsuit that insurance giant AIG is using tax dollars to promote Islamic Sharia ...
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