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Meltdown: Earth Rapidly Losing Ice Cover - Olga Belogolova - NationalJournal.com

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

National Journal - By Olga Belogolova - Feb. 09 (News Report) - Glaciers and ice caps outside of Greenland and Antarctica are losing nearly 150 billion tons of ice each year, contributing to an annual 0.4 millimeter rise in sea levels globally, according to a study done by the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Fact check: The CBS News/National Journal debate

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CBS News - By Yochi J. Dreazen, Sara Sorcher, Kevin Baron - Nov. 15 (Fact Check) - A reality check of statements made by the candidates at the "commander-in-chief debate" hosted by CBS News and National Journal

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The Lost Decade: Bill Clinton on how to spur job growth and the economy

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

yahoo.com - By Ronald Brownstein - Jul. 08 (Opinion) - Clinton's analysis raises two big questions. What can succeed the 1990s' information revolution as an engine of growth? And what policies are most likely to speed its emergence?

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Herman Cain: Obama 'Was Raised in Kenya' - Monday, June 13, 2011

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:46:44 -0700

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The Two Faces of Pakistan

Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Michael Hirsh - May. 05 (Opinion) - “We are with you unstintingly.” Those were the words that then-Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said to the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Wendy Chamberlin, just after 9/11. Musharraf’s promise proved to be largely a lie—but not entirely untrue. Ever since then, whether the Pakistani regime was autocratic or democratic, Islamabad has played a well-thought-out double game with the United States that's involved handing over some jihadis and protecting others for Pakistan’s own purposes.

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The Secret Team That Killed bin Laden

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Marc Ambinder - May. 02 (News) - Sunday’s operation provides strong evidence that the CIA and JSOC work well together. Sometimes intelligence needs to be developed rapidly, to get inside the enemy’s operational loop. And sometimes it needs to be cultivated, grown as if it were delicate bacteria in a petri dish.

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Warning Signs Among the GOP

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Charlie Cook - Apr. 05 (News Analysis) - It’s not inconceivable that Republicans might start seeing things go against them in the court of public opinion, starting with the current spending debate.

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NationalJournal.com - The Resurrection - Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Michael Hirsch - Mar. 28 (News) - As Vikram Pandit’s remaking of Citigroup shows, Wall Street is no longer waiting on Washington. The result: a global financial elite even less under U.S. control than before the crash

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Next Stop For Wisconsin Protesters: Washington, D.C.

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:52:51 -0700

National Journal - By Lindsey Boerma - Mar. 17 (News) - Pro-union protesters are expected to rally in Washington on Wednesday evening to counter a fundraising event for the Republican Party of Wisconsin.

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McCain's Shift Makes Him Senate's Most Conservative

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

National Journal - By Reid Wilson - Feb. 24 (News) - The politician who once best exemplified the idea of a "maverick" independent has shifted so far to the right that he is now tied for the title of the Senate's most conservative member, according to National Journal's 2010 vote ratings.

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White House to Cut Energy Assistance for the Poor

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

National Journal - By Marc Ambinder - Feb. 10 (News) - President Obamaâ€'s proposed 2012 budget will cut several billion dollars from the government's energy assistance fund for poor people.

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Senate's Returning Democrats Unanimously Favor Filibuster Reform

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

National Journal - By Dan Friedman - Dec. 23 (News Report) - All Democratic senators returning next year have signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., urging him to consider action to change long-sacrosanct filibuster rules.

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What Sparked the Tea Party

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

National Journal - By Michael Hirsh - Nov. 13 (Opinion) - Indeed, the eruption against Big Government that the tea party has come to embody can trace its roots back at least to the sense of betrayal among conservatives over Bush’s runaway-spending habits and refusal to veto any spending bills, especially in his first term. Not to mention the nearly six years of GOP control of the Senate and House from 2000 to ’06, when federal spending grew to a record $2.7 trillion, more than doubling the increase during Bill Clinton’s two terms

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The Cook Report Issues Final Forecast: GOP Gains 50 to 60 Seats in the House

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Cook Political Report - Nov. 01 (Editorial) - In its final forecast for the election cycle, The Cook Political Report expects a gain for Republicans of 50 to 60 seats in the House, with six to eight seats in the Senate. Below are the final outlooks and latest ratings changes.

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Why Democrats Will Keep The House

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Reid Wilson - Aug. 26 (Opinion) - House Republicans are measuring the drapes in preparation for big gains in the lower chamber, convinced that Minority Leader John Boehner is going to become the next Speaker of the House. On a macro level, that wouldn?t be a bad guess -- Democrats are saddled with bad polls and unpopular leaders, and the national mood wants a change from the status quo. But the Democratic apocalypse isn?t guaranteed just yet. In fact, senior Democratic strategists say they?re not only likely to keep the House, but they believe the GOP won?t come close to gaining the 39 seats they need to take over. That?s not to say Republicans have no chance of taking back the House. Indeed, for every argument Democrats make about their strengths, Republicans have a ...

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The Gray And The Brown: The Generation Mismatch

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Ronald Brownstein - Jul. 24 (News Analysis) - Two of the biggest demographic trends reshaping the nation in the 21st century increasingly appear to be on a collision course that could rattle American politics for decades. From one direction, racial diversity in the United States is growing, particularly among the young. Minorities now make up more than two-fifths of all children under 18, and they will represent a majority of all American children by as soon as 2023, demographer William Frey of the Brookings Institution predicts.

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The Immigration Impasse

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Ronald Brownstein - Apr. 30 (Opinion) - Bush's vision of courting Hispanics with a balanced approach that acknowledges the impracticality of deporting millions of people has surrendered to an insular enforcement-first strategy. Although some allies in the Bush effort have criticized Arizona's harsh law, other Republicans, including two gubernatorial candidates in neighboring Nevada, have already pledged to replicate it. They probably won't be the last.

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David Frum, A Buckley For Our Time

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Jonathan Rauch - Apr. 09 (Opinion) - In 1965, Buckley's message from reality was embraced by a movement that was on the threshold of readiness to govern. (Barry Goldwater, no less, published a letter in Buckley's special issue supporting National Review's criticism of Welch.) Frum's message, by contrast, is drawing loud raspberries from conservatives who see governing as a sordid compromise.

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Brunner Down, But Not Out - Hotline On Call

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

National Journal - By Erin McPike - Dec. 17 (Comment) - She said she realized that with all of the institutional support going to LG Lee Fisher (D), she's been forced to run a grassroots campaign, and she thinks it's going well. "I started my law practice out of the corner of my bedroom," she said. It eventually grew to 32 people. "When you start a small business, you have to run things as lean and mean as you can. I think donors appreciate when you don't waste their money."

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House Cleaning At API

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

National Journal - By Peter H. Stone - Nov. 17 (News Report) - Four senior hands will be leaving the American Petroleum Institute by year's end, including Jim Ford, who until early this month was the group's top lobbyist.

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CongressDaily - Atonement

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By George C. Wilson - Oct. 26 (News Report) - A conscience-stricken member of the House Armed Services Committee is writing a book called "My Daddy's Not Dead Yet" in hopes it will atone for what he now considers his sinful vote to empower former President George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003

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If Air Travel Worked Like Health Care

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Jonathan Rauch - Oct. 01 (Opinion) - "But 95 percent of these questions are always the same. Don't you know that every time I fill out one of these duplicative forms I increase the chance of error? Wouldn't it make more sense to hold my travel information centrally, so that everyone could see the same thing?" "Sorry, sir, we have no capability for that, and we do need to have your travel history at least two weeks before you fly."

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Looking Abroad For Answers On Voter Registration

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Eliza Newlin Carney - Jul. 20 (News Report) - Unlike the United States, which puts the onus for registering entirely on the voter, many Western democracies put government officials in charge of adding voters to the rolls, according to a recent study by New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice. These include Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Peru and Sweden.

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Justices Reject Sotomayor Position 9-0 -- But Bigger Battles Loom

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Stuart Taylor Jr. - Jun. 30 (Opinion) - The Supreme Court's predictable 5-4 vote to reverse the decision by Judge Sonia Sotomayor and two federal appeals court colleagues against 17 white (and one Hispanic) plaintiffs in the now-famous New Haven, Conn., firefighters decision does not by itself prove that the Sotomayor position was unreasonable.

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G-20 And The Limits Of Cooperation

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Clive Crook - Apr. 04 (Opinion) - The London summit of the Group of 20 industrial and emerging economies was a missed opportunity from the start. The previous summit, in Washington in November, took place after the election but before President Obama was sworn in. That timing furnished an easy excuse for failing to get much done.

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