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Poor economy worsens Social Security's finances

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Stephen Ohlemacher, Ricardo Alonso Zaldivar - Apr. 24 (Opinion) - High energy prices and an economy that has been slow to rebound are worsening Social Security's finances, shortening the life of the trust funds that support program by three years, the government said Monday.

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Nir Rosen's Offensive Tweets Shouldn't Have Surprised Us

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Politics Daily - By Matt Lewis - Feb. 17 (Opinion) - After examining Rosen's past writings (and Tweets), none of us should be terribly surprised that he would have so viciously attacked Logan.

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Cable News Broadcasts: Bad Uses Of Your Time

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Conor Friedersdorf - Jan. 24 (Opinion) - Olbermann offered something that couldn't be found elsewhere on television. For liberals who like that medium, I'm sure the show proved cathartic. But wouldn't they be better informed, more meaningfully entertained, and psychicly happier if just read Washington Monthly instead?

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Jamie Dimon - America’s Least-Hated Banker

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Roger Lowenstein - Dec. 07 (Opinion) - Back in 2004, way before the mortgage bust and before Americans thought of banks as four-letter words, Jamie Dimon took charge of JPMorgan Chase & Company. Known as a tough, hands-on manager, Dimon was supposed to avert the sort of foolish risks that tempted so many of his peers. And sure enough, he was different. Instead of reviewing brief summaries of the bank’s operations, as his predecessor had, Dimon demanded to see the raw data — hundreds of pages detailing J. P. Morgan’s businesses every month. Instead of simply trusting his traders, Dimon put himself through a tutorial, so that he would understand the complex trades the bank was exposed to. And rather than run its mortgage machine at full throttle for as long as possible, Dimon reined in lending earlier than did others and warned his shareholders of looming trouble.

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Listen to Me, Barack!

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Slate - By David Weigel - Nov. 15 (Opinion) - On Friday, the Washington Post published the worst column of the year. It's been a long year, and a stupid year, so this is no light accusation. And pollster-pundits Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell write a lot of bad columns—they are good ways to spend the slow hours between Fox and Friends and Hannity, more productive than knitting or Sudoku. Still, the hackwork in their call for President Obama to retire after one term was something special.

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The business of news

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - By Rachel Maddow - Nov. 11 (Interview) - But [Fox News] never criticized George W. Bush for anything, even when he was doing things that were sort of not conservative. They never criticized him.

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Helpless Liberals Watch as Obama Switches from Messiah to Demon

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Rush Limbaugh Show - By Rush Limbaugh - Oct. 18 (Opinion) - I don't care where you look today, folks. Everywhere in the State-Controlled Media, this election is being reported as a Democrat disaster. Anywhere from 55 to 70, maybe 80 seats in the House, may not take the Senate, discombobulated out there. The Obamas are in Cleveland. It's like Robert Byrd is a Klansman going down to Mississippi for votes 50 years ago, and if you do that, you are in big trouble.

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First They Came for the Cartoonists . . .

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Richmond Times-Dispatch - By Barton Hinkle - Oct. 15 (Opinion) - Just contrast the reaction to a Florida pastor's proposal to burn a Quran a few weeks ago with this May 2009 headline from CNN: "[U.S.] Military Burns Unsolicited Bibles Sent to Afghanistan." Hear anything about that? Of course you didn't. Fundamentalist Islam represents a far greater threat to the values of Western liberalism than even the most conservative Christians do today.

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President's socialist takeover must be stopped

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Times - By Jeffrey T. Kuhner - Sep. 01 (Opinion) - President Obama has engaged in numerous high crimes and misdemeanors. The Democratic majority in Congress is in peril as Americans reject his agenda. Yet more must be done: Mr. Obama should be impeached.

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GOP vows reform if it wins House

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Richard E. Cohen - Sep. 01 (Statement) - They make clear that they plan not only to change the top-down management style of Speaker Nancy Pelosi but also to pare back the excesses and power plays that occurred during the 12 years of Republican control under Newt Gingrich, Dennis Hastert and Tom DeLay.

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Was Obama Ungracious to Bush Last Night? Or Too Gracious?

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Dan Amira - Sep. 01 (Comment) - Going into last night's Oval Office address on the end of the combat in Iraq, one of the big questions was how much credit President Obama would give to former President Bush for the surge that made withdrawal from a reasonably stable Iraq even possible. Obviously, Obama was a big opponent of the surge. Would he be admitting that he was wrong by thanking Bush for his tough decision? Does it even make any sense to thank Bush for fixing a disaster he helped to create in the first place? (Where is Bush, by the way? Is he hibernating to save up energy for his impending book-publicity marathon?) Ultimately, here's how Obama tackled the issue.

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Obama's Soft-Core Socialism

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Steve Forbes - Jul. 22 (Opinion) - Putting in personal 401(k)-like accounts (with proper rules about diversification) to replace Social Security for people under the age of 50 would phase out another gargantuan source of Washington's political power. Unlike the tepid ideas originally bandied about by George W. Bush, these accounts should receive the majority of an individual's payroll taxes and the matching contributions from employers.

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Gulf Oil Drilling Is Worth The Risk

Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Lawrence M. Cathles - May. 18 (Opinion) - Yes, it's dangerous. But so is doing without the oil.

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The dangers of embedded journalism, in war and politics

Sun, 02 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - May. 02 (Opinion) - The American news media has made great use in recent years of a practice called embedding, in which journalists travel with the U.S. military to cover wars.

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CNN: Can a Mainstream News Outlet Survive?

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By James Poniewozik - Apr. 28 (Opinion) - Part of CNN's problem is that Fox News and MSNBC cater to the right and the left, respectively, cultivating faithful fans. There aren't major earthquakes every day, but Sean Hannity and Keith Olbermann can produce temblors on demand. It may not be the worst who are full of passionate intensity, as Yeats wrote, but passionate intensity sells on cable. A small partisan base is enough for big ratings; the mildly interested middle might rather watch Grey's Anatomy. But CNN also suffers Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1983901,00.html?xid=newsletter-daily#ixzz0mNUurdDo

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Ron Paul vs. Chris Matthews

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - By Chris Matthews - Apr. 22 (Interview) - We saw thousands of tea partiers rally in wash on tax day last week, and a recent politico poll actually shows that the movement is split between social conservatives who look to Sarah Palin as their leader and libertarians who support Congressman Ron Paul, and Congressman Ron Paul is with us today.

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Healthcare reform no easier for press than for me to grasp

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Howard Kurtz - Mar. 23 (Editorial) - This is the one-step-back kind of musing that reminds me that, yes, The Media are individuals with souls. And jobs. I really appreciated this writer's articulation of 1) why the healthcare debate was a pesky story to cover, yet also a reminder that 2) accurate and unambiguous information was there, if a citizen really wanted it.

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10 Big Ideas: The Dropout Economy

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Time - By Reihan Salam - Mar. 14 (Comment) - 10 Big Ideas: The Dropout Economy

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Journalistic Shoplifting

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Clark Hoyt - Mar. 06 (Editorial) - ZACHERY KOUWE, a Times business reporter for a little over a year, resigned last month after he was accused of plagiarizing from The Wall Street Journal. An internal review of his work turned up more articles he said he was shown four containing copy

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Reconciliation on health care would be an assault to the democratic process

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Orrin Hatch - Mar. 02 (Opinion) - America's Founders gave us a system of governance designed to limit government power and maximize liberty. The legislative branch is different from the executive, and the Senate is different from the House. No single branch has all the power. That can be frustrating for those with ambitious agendas, but everyone benefits by respecting those checks and balances even as we fight over policies.

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Stephens: How Milton Friedman Saved Chile

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Stephens, Bret - Mar. 01 (Opinion) - Milton Friedman gave Chileans the intellectual wherewithal first to survive the quake, and now to build their lives anew.

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Obama should expand court

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Stan Isaacs - Feb. 28 (Opinion) - So if nine justices is not writ in stone, the embattled President Obama should deal with this hostile conservative/reactionary court by adding three members.

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Is a "Truther" running for Texas Governor

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Rick Sanchez - Feb. 23 (Interview) - Debra Medina is running for governor of Texas. Among Republicans, she's a distant 3rd place behind sitting Gov. Rick Perry and Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. Otherwise, she wouldn't make national news, but she said something during a radio interview that raised some eyebrows. Debra Medina seemed to be open for more discussion on whether the United States was or was not complicit in the attacks of September 11, 2001.

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Olbermann on the diversity of msnbc

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Countdown - By Keith Olbermann - Feb. 23 (Comment) - "In response to my comment last week noting the near-total segregation of Tea Party events, the Dallas, Texas group has invited me to their shindig on Saturday."

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Climate Change and Open Science

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By L. Gordon Crovitz - Feb. 22 (Opinion) - 'Unequivocal." That's quite a claim in this skeptical era, so it's been enlightening to watch the unraveling of the absolute certainty of global warming caused by man. Now even authors of the 2007 United Nations report that "warming of the climate system is unequivocal" have backed off its key assumptions and dire warnings. Science is having its Walter Cronkite moment.

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