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Raised Revenues Does Not Necessarily Mean Raised Taxes
Tweet Share on Facebook November 5, 2011 Comment (6)The word in Washington today is that the so called supercommittee is "stalled" on the issue of revenues. Yet buried in all the coverage is that the Republicans would be willing to exchange revenues for entitlement reforms. Here's how Speaker Boehner put it, according to CBS
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Condoleezza Rice Should Have Quit Over Iraq War
Tweet Share on Facebook November 4, 2011 Comment (14)Believe it or not, something more important than the Herman Cain scandal shook the political world this week. Condoleezza Rice's book about her White House years came out Tuesday. The former secretary of state takes shots at Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld for their conduct of the war in Iraq.
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Obama Made Things Worse While GOP Wants to Make Them Better
Tweet Share on Facebook November 3, 2011 Comment (27)To hear President Barack Obama tell it, the Republicans in Congress have done absolutely nothing to address the unemployment situation and have put nothing forward that would lead to the creation of new jobs.
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Romney, GOP Make Obama Lucky in His Enemies
Tweet Share on Facebook November 3, 2011 Comment (7)Rock, meet Hard Place.
Rock is the succession of farce candidacies that has marked the Republican presidential primary so far. Trump. Bachmann. Perry. Cain. It is no wonder that the likes of Gov. Mitch Daniels, Gov. Chris Christie, and former Gov. Tim Pawlenty have either declined to run or quit early. They can't give the party what it needs right now.
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Consumer Power Can Bring Banks back in Line
Tweet Share on Facebook November 3, 2011 Comment (3)In 1965, Ralph Nader's book "Unsafe at Any Speed" was published. The book raised unsettling questions about auto safety, and led to rules and standards designed to protect drivers and passengers. It also ushered in a new era in the country, one in which consumers realized they were being taken for a ride (a dangerous one, in this case) and used their purchasing power to demand quality and safety standards in all kinds of products.
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What Will a President Romney Call His Stimulus Plan?
Tweet Share on Facebook November 2, 2011 Comment (7)The Federal Reserve has good news and bad news. The economy has "strengthened somewhat."
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Thank 'Occupy Wall Street' for Banks Backing Off Debit Card Fees
Tweet Share on Facebook November 2, 2011 Comment (17)I couldn't believe my eyes when I read that Chase, Wells Fargo, SunTrust and other banks were caving in on the debit card fees. Even Bank of America, who was planning to charge a $5 monthly fee, appears to be backing off as well.
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Kim Kardashian's Divorce Illustrates America's New 'Reality'
Tweet Share on Facebook November 2, 2011 Comment (14)The Kardashians have won. They've beaten me. I spent years ignoring them, only wondering occasionally why so many people were interested in their frivolous lives—why anyone cared what they wore, or what they fought about, or whom they married. Mostly, I could not understand why a television producer would pay them to show the public exactly how uninteresting and banal their lives were, let alone why anyone would watch their so-called "reality" show.
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Don't Blame the GOP for Mitt Romney's Flip-Flops
Tweet Share on Facebook November 2, 2011 Comment (6)As former Gov. Mitt Romney gets battered by the likes of George Will, expect to hear a lot more arguments along the following lines.
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For Israel, President Obama Must Stand up to UNESCO
Tweet Share on Facebook November 1, 2011 Comment (3)For a guy with as many problems as he already has, President Barack Obama doesn't need any more. That said the United Nations handed him a big one when it agreed to admit Palestine as a member state to UNESCO—the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
