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government? Are higher taxes the right approach to fairly distributing collective tasks, or are they infernally un-American? For a time President Barack Obama, 51, and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, 65, made this question a key theme in their respective EFTA00700246 campaigns. The Democrat invok
st half of Americans today say that the country's best days are gone. "Americans are tired after the war in Iraq and also after Afghanistan," says Obama advisor and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. This exhaustion, when combined with the traumatic terrorist attacks of 2001, has weakened
uld be consolidated through spending cuts alone. President Obama, who will remain in office until at least Jan. 2
hey infernally un-American? For a time President Barack Obama, 51, and his Republican challenger Mitt Ro
l jobs in the domestic automobile industry, so that no candidate can afford not to have an opinion on Washington's China policy. The Mother of all Austerity Measures In the 2012 campaign, many Americans have realized for the first time that the US's role as a global power is no longer uncontested, somet
n variables of a post-Assad Syria appear to have created a divide between U.S. and Israeli strategies, as the Netanyahu government has not followed Obama's course EFTA00659881 on Syria. The Israeli concerns surrounding the collapse of Syria's Ba'athist party are legitimate. Washington should also c
persuaded the Sunni tribes to "flip" and start fighting the radicals rather than Americans. The surge changed the war in Iraq dramatically, even as Barack Obama, then a candidate for president, was promising to swing resources away from Iraq and into the "good war" in Afghanistan. President Obama fulfilled
John A. Nagl June 6, 2012 -- THIS Memorial Day, President Obama recognized veterans of all of the nation's wars,
rge changed the war in Iraq dramatically, even as Barack Obama, then a candidate for president, was promi
aka. A Greek friend sighed and admitted that he would leave the country immediately if he could: "There is no good solution to the current crisis. Austerity will damage us for years to come, and so will the return of the drachma. Either way it will get much worse before it gets better." EFTA00659899 O
ly understand how they feel, but we aren't seeing any Congressional Hearings trying to fix this obvious injustice. This past Friday while President Obama was in Los Angeles attending a fund raiser and holding court with party faithful willing to pay $10,000 for lunch and a picture, several miles away
le are mostly liberal on a range of issues -- not surprising given the fact that 6o percent of voters aged 18-29 voted for Obama in 2012. President Barack Obama won 5 million more votes than Gov. Mitt Romney among voters under the age of 3o in the 2012 election. Despite Romney holding a 2 million-vote advant
x this obvious injustice. This past Friday while President Obama was in Los Angeles attending a fund raiser and ho
rs aged 18-29 voted for Obama in 2012. President Barack Obama won 5 million more votes than Gov. Mitt Rom
ompanies. In a Washington Post op-ed this week former Secretary of the Treasury and former President of Harvard University Lawrence Summers wrote — Austerity would hurt U.S. jobs and growth. Summers: A prudent government must balance spending and revenue collection in a way that assures the sustainabilit
eral government ponders whether to ignore the rise of recreational marijuana or to enforce federal laws that still make marijuana illegal. President Barack Obama's Department of Justice has yet to officially announce a position. Kerlikowske's small White House office, officially called the Office of National D
t "have not made progress toward achieving most of the goals articulated in the 2010 National Drug Control Strategy," the report said. Despite the Obama administration's shift away from "war on drugs" rhetoric, its 2014 budget proposal still devotes less than half of its funds to treatment and preven
progress or has moved away from goals President Barack Obama outlined when he took office for reducing t
extent that we have policy of the 1 percent, by the i percent, for the 1 percent, won't we just see new justifications for the same old policies?" Austerity has failed in Europe and elsewhere, and the science supporting it has been totally discredited, so why are politicians still pushing it? SO TRUE i
ted Farmworkers, protecting workers who picked crops for pennies in California. Ganz also had a pivotal role organizing students and volunteers for Barack Obama's historic 2008 presidential campaign. Now 70, he's still organizing across the United States and the Middle East, and back at Harvard, teaching stude
d dropped out of Harvard, he went back to finish his degree and earn a doctorate. A few years later, he was asked to become the architect behind the Obama campaign's skillful organizing of students and volunteers. Today, Marshall Ganz is a founder of the Leading Change Network, a global community of o
trying to tie everything that is not working with President Obama. He didn't start the wars in either Afghanistan
ls public pressure to become a serious partner can the real work of governing begin." Even to me, it feels that every week I am taking pot-shots at Austerity, which although totally discredited it is still the economic mantra for Conservatives like Paul Ryan. These same Conservatives believe that an unbr
48.9 (48.7 est), Germany 48.4 (48.1 est) • EU commission will assess "sizeable fiscal slippage" of Spain's 2011 budgetary target says Olli Rehn • Obama signs $662 billion defense bill into law (includes sanctions against Iran's central bank) • Group of 5 investors sued Porsche last Friday in Stuttg
re devaluation? Business Insider Retailers face being "squeezed to extinction" Telegraph Collapse of the Eurozone "will start this year Daily Mail Austerity reigns over Eurozone as crisis deepens NYT Romney gains narrow lead in Iowa poll FT How MF Global was undone WSJ Natural gas ends 2011 at 27-month
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