The Obama Economic Team
As President-elect Obama continues to name the men and women who will fill his administration, I searched in vain for a newly anointed...
Obama Cap-and-trade Plan Uncaps Federal Power
ITEM: President-elect Barack Obama provided a pre-recorded video message to the nearly 800 attendees from the United States and foreign countries at the...
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Bush Says Saddam Hussein Was Not Connected to 9/11
Addressing the Saban Forum on December 5, President George W. Bush stated: "It is true, as I've said many times, that Saddam Hussein...
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Report Confirms Torture at Guantanamo
Last month, a consortium of human-rights groups from the University of California at Berkeley released a report entitled Guantanamo and Its Aftermath: U.S....
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Plaxico Burress, Francis Lewis, and Gun Rights
Plaxico Burress and Francis Lewis, two prominent residents of the state of New York, lived three centuries apart. Burress is a New York...
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Putin Optimistic About Dealings With Obama
During a nationwide call-in program called "A Conversation with Vladimir Putin," broadcast live from a Moscow studio on December 4, the Russian prime...
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Planned Parenthood Offers Gift Certificates for Exams – and Abortions
While many major retailers like Home Depot, Lowe's, and Wal-Mart grapple with today's politically correct pressure in deciding whether to advertise using the...
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Pearl Harbor: Motives Behind the Betrayal
There are several interpretations of the facts surrounding Pearl Harbor. The first, as expressed by Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of the film Pearl Harbor,...
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Pearl Harbor: Scapegoating Kimmel and Short
Pearl Harbor's secrets had been successfully preserved before the fact — but what about after? People around the nation, including some vocal congressmen,...
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Obama’s Choice of Hillary Clinton Signals He’s Not Anti-War
The one aspect of the Obama campaign that was arguably laudable and comparatively better than the McCain campaign was Obama's skepticism of the...
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Rice Consoles Indians, Admonishes Pakistanis
Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, India, on December 3, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that Pakistan must act "fully and transparently"...
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20,000 Troops To Be Deployed in United States
"The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond...
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Palin Popular in “Last Frontier” & Beyond
Four months before John McCain surprised the nation with his choice of Sarah Palin for a runningmate, Charles Scaliger wrote glowingly about the...
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Former Fed Chief Volcker to Lead Obama Economic Recovery Team
On November 26, President-elect Barack Obama named former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker to head what he calls his Economic Recovery Advisory...
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Sweden Unsuccessful Integrating Immigrants
The Swedish welfare state is far from successful when it comes to integrating immigrants into its economy. Among first-generation immigrants from non-industrialized countries,...
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