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HC106.84 .A15 2012 - The 4% solution : unleashing the economic...
Foreword by President George W. Bush. With contributions from world renowned economists and Nobel prizewinners, The 4% Solution is a blueprint for restoring America's economic health.
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Men making bold statements - with their socks
They're putting their best foot forward by kicking safe black socks to the curb in favor of bright colors and dashing prints.
UNH Law School grads told to 'serve justice'
Two men who argued opposite sides in the U.S. Supreme Court case that decided the 2000 election offered life lessons - and their own example - to graduates of the University of New Hampshire School of Law on Saturday.
Grim reminder of bloody US touch
The landmark conviction of former Guatemalan dictator General Efrain Rios Montt of genocide and crimes against humanity - the 1982 massacre of 1700 Ixil Mayan Indians considered sympathetic to leftwing guerrillas - and United States backing for the scorched earth campaign, was a grim reminder of bloody footprints left by Washington, in this case ... (more)
Pentagon said to seek $80 billion for war amid withdrawal
The Pentagon reportedly will ask Congress to approve about $79.5 billion for combat operations, the least since 2005, as U.S. troops withdraw from Afghanistan.
Former top cop of TARP calls for break-up of banks
Neil Barofsky, the feisty former prosecutor of Colombian drug lords who was tapped by President George W. Bush in 2008 to oversee the $700 billion TARP bank bailout, did not like a lot of what he saw during his 27-month stint in the nation's capital.
Right Wing Groups Go Off Deep End, Again
Sure it's not right that the IRS targets anyone, but the truth is the federal agency scrutinizes a lot of people for a lot of reasons.
Morning News: Car Chases, Fecal Pools, and Kitchen Nightmares
No Touching : Another Army sexual harassment officer has been arrested, this time for allegedly violating his wife's protective order .
Business Class: Celebrate what we have in common
A very small number of Americans will ever have private access to a former or current president of the United States.
Acting IRS Commissioner Steps Down, Obama Announces
President Obama on Wednesday announced that acting IRS commissioner Steve Miller is stepping down amid investigations into political discrimination carried out by the IRS against conservative groups.
NAACP Leader's Double-Standard on Alleged IRS Abuse
If there is anyone in the world who should have some sympathy for what the Tea Party movement and like-minded conservative organizations are going through right now with the IRS, it should be NAACP chairman emeritus Julian Bond.
Second court invalidates Obama recess appointment
A second federal appeals court has found that President Barack Obama exceeded his power when he bypassed the Senate to install a member to the National Labor Relations Board.
Ouster of IRS official isn't ending investigations
President Barack Obama picked a senior White House budget official to become the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday, the same day another top official announced plans to leave the agency amid the controversy over agents targeting tea party groups.
Pentagon leaders say US still in armed conflict with al-Qaida, defends military force law
The United States remains in armed conflict with al-Qaida and its affiliates, a fight likely to last a decade or two, senior Pentagon officials told Congress on Thursday in arguing against changes to the 2001 military force law used in the war on terror.
Obama/Holder Bit By The Bush-FISA Fiasco
I have to laugh that Obama & Holder both just got nailed for snooping on the News Media by the very same conspiracy crap the liberal left tried to nail President George W Bush on! Back in Bush's first term, the NY Times tried to concoct a scandal for George W Bush on the FISA court and how its process had been changed after the attacks on 9-11. I ... (more)
Today in History - May 16, 2013
On May 16, 1943, the nearly month-long Warsaw Ghetto Uprising came to an end as German forces crushed the Jewish resistance and blew up the Great Synagogue.
Q&A: "Dirty Wars" Author Jeremy Scahill
Author Jeremy Scahill, national security correspondent for The Nation magazine, told Philadelphia Weekly that he thinks the Obama administration's foreign policy is actually worse than that of his predecessor, President George W. Bush.
IRS chief resigns amid controversy over scrutiny for conservative groups
'I'm one of those guys that believes we have an obligation or a responsibility when we can to have... President Barack Obama will hold a news conference today about news that the IRS singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny.
Lawrence Wright Was at the Bush Library While SMU Had an 'Active Shooter'
Lawrence Wright is a staff writer at the New Yorker and author of the books The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 and Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief .
12 presidential scandals, controversies and distractions
Officials in the Obama administration's Internal Revenue Service came under fire after revelations that workers in its Cincinnati office targeted for extra scrutiny tea party and conservative groups applying for 501 tax-exempt status.