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Boris Epshteyn »
May Unemployment Rate Dooms Barack Obama June 01, 2012

Very few of us could have predicted three years ago that when President Bush came to his White House portrait ceremony, he would appear the steadier hand than the sitting leader of the free world.

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Mary Kate Cary »
Planned Parenthood Pulls a Komen on Mitt Romney June 01, 2012

If you look at Planned Parenthood's most recent annual report, amid the number of sexually transmitted disease tests it performed (3.5 million), number of women for whom it provided contraception (2.2 million), and the number of "breast exams/breast care" procedures (747,000; no mention of mammograms), you'll find these two facts:

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Ron Bonjean »
Bill Clinton Undercuts Barack Obama in Wisconsin June 01, 2012

Is former President Bill Clinton going rogue against President Obama's presidential re-election aspirations? It looks that way if you look at mounting evidence that Clinton may be paying back the Obama campaign for the vicious 2008 primary against his wife, now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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Peter Roff »
Barack Obama Doesn’t Get a Pass on Poland Gaffe June 01, 2012

During a ceremony in which he presented a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jan Karski, a resistance fighter and genuine hero who was one of the first to provide the Allies with an eyewitness account of what the Nazis were doing at places like Auschwitz, President Barack Obama made a gaffe that set off an international incident.

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Susan Milligan »
Mitt Romney's Ridiculous Unemployment Reaction June 01, 2012

Unemployment, which is high but generally dropping, ticked up a tenth of a percent in May to 8.2 percent. This is not good news. There were 69,000 jobs created—a big improvement over the months when the country was hemorrhaging hundreds of thousands of jobs—but still not what economists had hoped for or expected.

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Mark W. Davis »
What John Edwards Tells Us About the Legal Profession June 01, 2012

Imagine if four CEOs of America's biggest companies—for the sake of argument say Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, Mike Duke of Walmart, Jeff Immelt of General Electric, and Rex Tillerson of Exxon-Mobil—were all charged with serious crimes, with three of them actually going to prison. Imagine the media handwringing and teeth-gnashing over the ethical state of corporate America such scandals would inspire, as well as the rush by business schools to upgrade business ethics courses.

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Q&A

'The So-Called War on Women Is a Myth'

California Rep. Mary Bono Mack talks about the House GOP's new Women's Policy Committee and why there's no gender gap.

Paul Krugman: Mitt Romney Doesn't Mean Anything He's Saying

The Nobel winning economist talks about Romney, European austerity, and why stimulus isn't a dirty word.

John Steinbeck's Vietnam

Scholar Thomas Barden collects the famous author's accounts from Vietnam in his new book Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches From the War.

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Economic Intelligence

Calls for a U.S. Gold Audit Miss the Point

The international monetary system and the role of the dollar are in dire straits even if all of the gold is where it is supposed to be.

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Robert Schlesinger

Get God Out of the Gay Marriage Debate

The government shouldn't tell churches who they should marry, but neither should churches tell the government which marriages it can recognize.

Mary Kate Cary

Obama Attacks as Economic Cliff Looms

The president can't afford to talk about the economy, but with a 2013 fiscal time bomb approaching, the rest of us can't afford not to.

Mort Zuckerman

Can the Eurozone Survive?

Banks are collapsing, and over-indebted governments are running out of both money and credit.

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On Energy

Lessons Learned Abroad on Energy Taxes

The United States needs to reform the tax code and abolish harmful policies that undermine affordable energy development.

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