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On Thanksgiving, I spent some
time taking stock of my life and the world around me and, as we're
supposed to do over the holiday, giving thanks for all the joys -- little
and big -- in my life. One of the larger joys for which I am giving thanks
is all of the recent attention that has been ...
World
Forget the chilling, pre-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton campaign commercials forcing you to ask yourself if you believed that Barack Obama could be tough in a crisis. This is not about who you would trust to be President and Commander-in-chief at 3:00 in the morning. This is about security ...
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Homeland Security
As part of the Roosevelt Institute's series on the Jobs Crisis, running on the New Deal 2.0 blog from Nov. 12-30, I was asked to reflect on what can be done to get Americans working again. Here's my take.
In 1940 Yale Professor of Economics and Director of Unemployment Studies E. Wight Bakke ...
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As part of the Roosevelt Institute's 10-part series on the Jobs Crisis, running on the New Deal 2.0 blog from Nov. 12-25, I was asked to reflect on what can be done to get Americans working again. Here's my take.
Support of financial institutions is justified because they are too big and ...
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Bailout Plan
Foreclosure Crisis
During the opening moments of director Clint Eastwood's Invictus, when Nelson Mandela (played by Morgan Freeman) is inaugurated as president of an after-apartheid South Africa, it dawned on me, it was a bigger twist of fate for Mandela to be president there than for Obama to be president here.
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White House
Barack Obama
The great hope was that President Obama would have the courage and political sense to do what JFK did forty six years ago. Kennedy told the generals 'no' to their demand for escalation in Vietnam. It wasn't easy. The Pentagon had drawn up plans for the massive military ramp up, had an active ...
World
Barack Obama
Afghanistan
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The decision to free Roman Polanski is a
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It shows that the arguments developed by the movie director's partisans -- including those published on the French review's website of La Règle du Jeu -- have ...
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Polanski's Release From Prison
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Although there is sharp political division for and against Ahmadinejad in Iran, there is virtual unanimity among all political factions that Iran must have nuclear weapons in order to protect itself. Given this, even if President Ahmadinejad and the hard line clerics were to be removed from ...
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Iran
Economic Meltdown
It turns out to be shockingly easy to assassinate President Barack Obama.
In a fabulous show of security, it emerged late Wednesday that a pair of reality show contestants succeeded in crashing the Obamas' first state dinner. One posted photos of the couple with Vice President Joe Biden and ...
White House
Barack Obama
Homeland Security
People always want to focus on using the iPhone to be productive. I'm certainly no exception, but for this article I'd like us all to embrace the fact that the iPhone is excellent at wasting time. In fact, the iPhone App Store provides more than 100,000 ways to spend your time, and I want to ...
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Since many people will be spending time with families this weekend, we thought we highlight some photos of amazing animal families. Check out how families play, eat, travel, and snuggle. And don't forget to vote on your favorite!
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The other day, my friend Sandra and her daughter Maya were talking about growing up. Sandra told her daughter, "Honey, when you grow up, I know you'll find a nice boy to marry who will love you." Maya, who is eight years old, replied, "But Mom, I could marry a girl."
Sandra stood corrected. ...
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As Hondurans go to the polls this Sunday, months of negotiations and years of diplomatic precedent hang in the balance. The Obama administration hopes that the presidential elections will end the political crisis in Honduras. The deep divisions in Honduran society and the firmness with which ...
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Honduras
As we enter this holiday time from Thanksgiving to New Year's, don't
forget to include our next generation in this annual time for
self-reflection, gratitude, giving and resolutions.
My holiday season just began with a great kickoff -- Children for
Children and Blue Smoke collaborated for ...
World
The holiday season is upon us and gift buying madness has officially begun. In order to give you ideas, and let's face it - just make your life easier - we've compiled a list of the best presents out there. See below for the best in perfume, dresses, gloves, menswear, luggage, and baked goods in ...
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Gallup Poll
Soon after thanksgiving the debate on health care reform begins in earnest before the Senate. Competition issues, normally a backwater concern for Congress, will be front and center. The Senate will grapple with the difficult question: how to make competition work in health care markets?
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Congress
Bill Nelson
There are so many options out there, please do not buy your children these boring, inappropriate, or crazypants toys. Please.
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Recently, a government panel recommended that women forgo regular mammograms in their 40s. That day, I found my hairdresser wielding a pair of scissors like a Samurai ready to decapitate any doctor in sight. As it happened, three of her friends, ages 35 and under, were diagnosed with breast ...
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2008 had the worst holiday shopping season in decades--will this year be any different? Retailers are hoping deep price cuts, social media specials, and early sales leaks will lure consumers in as the holiday shopping season kicks off.
Analysts predict a heavy turn out despite the recession, ...
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Bud Day
With Thanksgiving coming up and it being a time when we get together with family and friends, I wanted to give you a way in which you can easily make other people's lives work and your own in the process. It is something that you might want to begin now and continue on a long-term basis, and ...
