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30 reasons for Great Depression by 2011

We pinpointed the dot-com crash at its peak, in a March 20, 2000 column: "Next crash? Sorry, you won't see it coming." Bulls-eye: The dot-com bubble popped. The economy went into a 30-month recession. The stock market lost $8...

Will Clinton pardon of tax fugitive haunt Holder?

WASHINGTON -- The first black man elected U.S. president is poised to name Washington lawyer Eric Holder as the nation's first black attorney general - a historic appointment but one with some potential political problems over...

Social Conservatives and Libertarians

Can this Marriage be Saved? The Acton Institute asked me to write a piece for Religion & Liberty. I took on the question of whether parts (so-cons and libertarians) of the Reagan coalition can be put back together. Here's how...

Obama picks Capitol Hill insider for White House liaison to Congress

WASHINGTON - Phil Schiliro has spent his entire working life in Congress, doing every imaginable job from drafting arcane legislation to running for a seat himself. Steeped in the culture and traditio...

Obama team still raising cash now for the big day

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 : 1100 Hrs RSS Feeds Obama team still raising cash - now for the big day Washington (IANS): After raising a record $639 million for the election, President-elect Barack Obama is now collecting more...

Obama Embrace of Wall Street Insiders Points to Politic Reforms (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg - Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- During the height of the financial crisis in late September, some of Barack Obama's campaign advisers pushed him in a conference call to distance himself from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson....

Tokyo stocks fall despite Wall Street rally due to financial woes

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Dan Walters: California high court to revisit gay marriage

Every so often, we California voters do something that reverberates far beyond the state's borders. We did it in 1978 when we approved Proposition 13, a property tax limit that heralded a so-called "tax revolt" in other states...

Obama: Fear and the Security Force By Selwyn Duke

The Bear on Nov 18 2008 at 9:30 am | Filed under: Culture In all my life I have never seen such intense emotion surrounding a leader as that evoked by Barack Obama. Yet, while people the world over are imbued with “hope” and...

Michael Gerson - Should GM Be Allowed to Fail?

The founder of General Motors -- the charming, risk-taking Billy Durant -- was never as famous as Henry Ford. But while Ford built reliable black boxes, GM focused on variety and color, feeding an exuberant American...

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