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LZ: Michigan to Romney: Go away

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By LZ Garnderson - Feb. 14 (Opinion) - That's why the characterization of Rick Santorum polling well in Romney's backyard is a bit misguided. The truth is, many of us disowned that two-faced liar years ago. We remember how, back in 2008, Romney came home promising to do all he could to save the auto industry. And we believed him and voted for him and he won the primary here. Then, after he dropped out of the race, he wrote a New York Times op-ed that carried the headline "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt." The opening sentence: "If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye."

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SEC No Evil

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Countdown - By Keith Olbermann, Matt Taibbi - Aug. 19 (Interview) - 'In this 'Countdown' exclusive interview, Keith sits down with Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi to discuss breaking the story about the Securities and Exchange Commission destroying the records of promising cases in the years leading up to the financial meltdown.'

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Getting to Crazy

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Jul. 15 (Opinion) - Commentators seem shocked at Republican unreasonableness as a debt default looms, but it is the end result of a process that has lasted decades.

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The Unwisdom of Elites

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - May. 09 (Opinion) - The past three years have been a disaster for most Western economies. The United States has mass long-term unemployment for the first time since the 1930s. Meanwhile, Europe’s single currency is coming apart at the seams. How did it all go so wrong?

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My budget proposal

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ezra Klein - Apr. 13 (Opinion) - Here’s a realistic list of what I’d like to see done.

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The Abuse of Private Manning

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Mar. 15 (Editorial) - The treatment of the soldier accused of giving government files to WikiLeaks conjures creepy memories of how terror suspects were handled during the Bush years.

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Rumsfeld on ‘contingency plans’ for Iraq

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - By Andrea Mitchell - Feb. 23 (Interview) - During an interview with NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld defends the Iraq War invasion and also shares his thoughts on the current situation in Libya.

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Democrats Can't Filibuster ObamaCare Repeal

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

Wall Street Journal - By Karl Rove - Feb. 10 (Opinion) - Democrats harp on the 60-vote threshold and ignore the reconciliation option because they want Americans to accept the inevitability of ObamaCare. But its roots are clearly in shallow soil.

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Korea trade pact would hurt the Northwest

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Oregonian - By Arthur Stamoulis - Jan. 27 (Opinion) - Albert Einstein once noted that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. This is an apt description of U.S. trade policy, which year-after-year has caused outrageous deficits that cost the nation millions of family-wage jobs.

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Viewpoints: Dispelling myths about Katrina helps us learn from mistakes - Sacramento Opinion - Sacramento Editorial | Sacramento Bee

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Sacramento Bee - Dec. 19 (Opinion) - Read Sacramento opinion, letters and editorials at The Sacramento Bee

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WikiLeaks prosecution and Manning

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Glenn Greenwald - Dec. 16 (Opinion) - In The New York Times this morning, Charlie Savage describes the latest thinking from the DOJ about how to criminally prosecute WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. Federal investigators are "are looking for evidence of any collusion" between WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning -- "trying to find out whether Mr. Assange encouraged or even helped" the Army Private leak the documents -- and then "charge him as a conspirator in the leak, not just as a passive recipient of the documents who then published them." To achieve this, it is particularly important to "persuade Private Manning to testify against Mr. Assange." I want to make two points about this. First, the Obama administration faces what it perceives to be a serious dilemma: it is -- as Savage writes -- "under intense pressure to make an example of [Assange] as a deterrent to further mass leaking," but nothing Assange or WikiLeaks has done actually violates the law. Moreover, as these Columbia Journalism School professors explain in opposing prosecutions, it is impossible to invent theories to indict them without simultaneously criminalizing much of investigative journalism. Thus, claiming that WikiLeaks does not merely receive and publish classified information, but rather actively seeks it and helps the leakers, is the DOJ's attempt to distinguish it from "traditional" journalism. As Savage writes, this theory would mean "the government would not have to confront awkward questions about why it is not also prosecuting traditional news organizations or investigative journalists who also disclose information the government says should be kept secret — including The New York Times."

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Obama’s Hostage Deal

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Dec. 10 (Opinion) - The point is that by seeming angrier at worried supporters than he is at the hostage-takers, Mr. Obama is already signaling weakness, giving Republicans every reason to believe that they can extract another ransom.

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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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How did this wastrel ever find his way to the White House?

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Matthew Norman - Nov. 10 (Review) - May the Lord the former president so ostentatiously worships have mercy on my soul, and those in Iraq without water, electricity and medicine forgive me, but I just cannot suppress a twinge of sympathy for George W Bush.

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Virtual Failure on the Border

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Oct. 30 (Editorial) - It is past time to pull the plug on the “virtual fence” that the federal government has been trying to erect on the border with Mexico.

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'Obama Has Turned Out to Be an Utter Disaster'

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Der Spiegel - By Hans Hoyng, Marc Hujer, Karl Rove - Oct. 19 (Interview) - Karl Rove was one of President George W. Bush's closest advisers. SPIEGEL spoke with the political analyst about the widespread anger against Barack Obama and the prospects of Tea Party success in the coming midterm elections.

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'This Week' Transcript: Axelrod, McConnell and Queen Rania

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

This Week - By Christiane Amanpour - Sep. 26 (Interview) - MCCONNELL: What most Americans think is extreme is the kind of government we've been running for the last year-and-a-half. We've seen the government taken over banks, insurance companies, car companies, nationalizing the student loan business. We're on a path to double the national debt in five years and triple it in 10.

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The Keynesian experiment

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ezra Klein - Sep. 09 (Opinion) - It's become common to hear Republicans saying that Democrats' "Keynesian experiment," or in Paul Ryan's case, their "Neo-Keynesian economic experiment," has failed. You'd think that Keynesian economics was a big divide between the parties. But it wasn't and it's not.

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Zakaria: Why America Overreacted to 9/11

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Fareed Zakaria - Sep. 04 (Editorial) - Nine years after 9/11, can anyone doubt that Al Qaeda is simply not that deadly a threat? Since that gruesome day in 2001, once governments everywhere began serious countermeasures, Osama bin Laden’s terror network has been unable to launch a single

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Bush Tax Cuts: Now That’s Rich

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Aug. 22 (Opinion) - Back in 2001, when the first set of Bush tax cuts was rammed through Congress, the legislation was written with a peculiar provision — namely, that the whole thing would expire, with tax rates reverting to 2000 levels, on the last day of 2010. Why the cutoff date? In part, it was used to disguise the fiscal irresponsibility of the tax cuts: lopping off that last year reduced the headline cost of the cuts, because such costs are normally calculated over a 10-year period. It also allowed the Bush administration to pass the tax cuts using reconciliation — yes, the same procedure that Republicans denounced when it was used to enact health reform — while sidestepping rules designed to prevent the use of that procedure to increase long-run budget deficits.

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To deal with the deficit, let the tax cuts expire

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Fareed Zakaria - Aug. 02 (Opinion) - In front of us is a simple, easy way to bring America's fiscal house in order, reduce our dependence on foreign borrowing, restore U.S. credibility and power, and provide a stable revenue base from which to make key investments for future growth. All we need is for Congress to do what it does so well: nothing.

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44 - Rachel Maddow gives fake Obama oil speech, lunches with Obama

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Garance Franke-Ruta - Jun. 18 (Dramatization) - A day after Rachel Maddow went on the air to give the speech she said President Obama should have given Tuesday about the Gulf oil spill, the MSNBC host sat down with the president for lunch at the White House along with a handful of other members of the press.

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Study: Americans shockingly ignorant when it comes to U.S. History

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Examiner - By Ana Kasparian - Jun. 03 (Opinion) - The American Revolution Center has sponsored a survey that reveals enormous gaps in the knowledge Americans have in civics and Revolutionary-era history. The study consisted of 1001 American adults who were given a multiple choice exam on U.S history. Prior to the exam, 89 percent of the respondents expressed confidence that they would pass. However, only 6 percent went on to pass the test. What were some of the questions that most respondents failed to answer correctly? More Americans could identify Michael Jackson as the composer of "Beat It" and "Billie Jean" than could identify the Bill of Rights as a body of amendments in the Constitution.

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When Will America Face Its Fiscal Crisis?

Sat, 22 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Bruce Bartlett - May. 22 (Opinion) - The rating agencies have already told us what it will be: a rise in the federal government's interest payments to 20% of revenue, not spending. That is the limit of what the agencies view as acceptable. As noted earlier, given the status of federal interest payments as superior to all other spending, this is the logical position for the rating agencies to take. Whether they are right about 20% of revenue being the cutoff between manageable and unmanageable interest payments is an empirical question that their experience presumably informs. So when might we reach the 20% threshold? According to the Congressional Budget Office's forecast based on the administration's budget, that will come in about 10 years. Interest as a share of projected revenues will rise from 8.9% last year to 9.9% this year, 14.8% by 2015, 19.8% in 2019 and 20.8% in 2020.

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More than an oil spill

Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By James William Gibson - May. 11 (Opinion) - We may well be living with the consequences of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill for the rest of the 21st century. But judging by past environmental disasters, the spill also has the potential to reinvigorate the environmental movement going forward. For more than a century, ecological crises have often strengthened environmental movements.

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