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Democrats Resisting Obama on Social Security — WASHINGTON — President Obama is eager to seek a bipartisan solution to ensure the long-term solvency of Social Security, people who have spoken with him say, but he is running into opposition from his party's left and from Democratic Congressional leaders …
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Forget change: GOP eyes retro strategy — Republicans are hatching a political comeback by dusting off a strategic playbook written nearly two decades ago. — Its themes: Unite against Democrats' economic policy, block and counter health care reform and tar them with spending scandals.
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The Deficit Hawks' Attack on Our Entitlements — With the enactment of a large economic stimulus package, fiscal conservatives are using the temporary deficit increase to attack a perennial target — Social Security and Medicare. The private-equity investor Peter G. Peterson …
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Banking on the Brink — Comrade Greenspan wants us to seize the economy's commanding heights. — O.K., not exactly. What Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman — and a staunch defender of free markets — actually said was, “It may be necessary to temporarily nationalize …
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Government Moves to Shore Up Banking System — The federal government will ease the terms of its investments in more than 350 financial institutions to increase the benefit of the taxpayer dollars while reducing the cost to the banks, regulators announced this morning.
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U.S. Eyes Large Stake in Citi
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Legal Experts Propose Limiting Justices' Powers, Terms — If we had it to do all over again, would we appoint Supreme Court justices for life? Allow the chief justice to keep the job forever? Let the court have the final word on which cases it hears and those it declines?
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Bunning: Justice Ginsberg likely will be dead in 9 months — ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. — U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning predicted over the weekend that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would likely be dead from pancreatic cancer within nine months. — During a wide-ranging 30-minute speech …
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Assessing Obama's Job Approval at the One-Month Mark — Receives solid approval, but not extraordinary in historical terms — USA - Government and Politics - Presidential Job Approval - The Presidency - Americas - Northern America — PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama remains …
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The Obama Administration Sacrifices Israel — The cover-up on Durban II's anti-Semitic agenda. — The Obama administration's decision to join the planning of the U.N.'s Durban II “anti-racism” conference has just taken a new twist: cover-up. On Friday, State Department officials …
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How Burris blew it — CHICAGO — The crisis now threatening Sen. Roland Burris' political career started with revelations about his entanglements with disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. — But it was the way the situation was handled by Burris and his advisers …
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Auto team drives imports — Fed task force has few new U.S. cars — WASHINGTON — The vehicles owned by the Obama administration's auto team could reflect one reason why Detroit's Big Three automakers are in trouble: The list includes few new American cars.
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You, Me, and David Gregory — I think everyone understands the human phenomenon whereby we mistaken deem our own personal experiences to be more typical than they are. People who attended selective colleges tend to talk as if they don't realize that the majority of the minority of Americans …
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Alan Keyes—Goon — I spent some of my earliest days, as a reporter, profiling writers. It was what I wanted to be, and thus what I was most interested in. One of the more shocking revelations, for me, was the discovery that people who were brilliant on the page, could sound …
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Obama's Stunted Stimulus — Judged by his own standards, President Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus program is deeply disappointing. For weeks, Obama has described the economy in grim terms. “This is not your ordinary run-of-the-mill recession,” he said at his Feb. 9 news conference.
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‘And now for something completely different, please’ — ANALYSIS/OPINION: — As CPAC begins in the nation's capital later this week, the conservative movement has much to contemplate as it attempts to reestablish itself as a dominant force in American political life.
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VOTER, BEWARE — The Voting Rights Act, which passed in 1965, stands as one of the great monuments to civil rights in American history. The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, purported to give Americans the right to vote regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude …
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Rename Law? No Wisecrack Is Left Behind — WASHINGTON — Two years ago, an effort to fix No Child Left Behind, the main federal law on public schools, provoked a grueling slugfest in Congress, leading Representative George Miller, Democrat of California, to say the law had become “the most negative brand in America.”
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Let's Grow Up And Raise Taxes (Guest Voice) — LET'S GROW UP AND RAISE TAXES — by Marc Pascal — The first of several stimulus packages has just passed but it is just the beginning of our efforts to address our immediate and long-term economic problems.
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Feb. 22: Jindal, Crist, roundtable — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, Al Hunt, Michele Norris, Becky Quick — MR. DAVID GREGORY: Our issues this Sunday: An unprecedented economic crisis grips the nation, and it's the states at a breaking point.
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