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The Cyprus confusion
WASHINGTON -- Logically, what happens in Cyprus should stay in Cyprus. With a population of just over 1 million and an economy that's a mere 0.2 percent of the 17-nation eurozone, the country seems too small to matter on the world stage. Yet, that's where...Tags: Financial Markets, Brookings Institution, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Angela Merkel
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John Boehner on ‘This Week’; Paul Ryan on ‘Face the Nation’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelHouse Speaker John Boehner speaks at a Thursday press briefing on Capitol Hill. Photo credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED: The Sunday morning guest list: House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, talks to Martha Raddatz on ABC's “... -
Paul Ryan's new budget is no help to Republicans
Some of Paul Ryan's biggest fans are disappointed in his latest budget. Take New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. He credits Ryan, the Republican House Budget Committee chairman, for trying to give Medicare recipients the power and the incentive to...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Barack Obama, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Republican Party, Politics
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We the few, the brave
The Baltimore SunThe estimable Jonathon Owen has published an article on towards and toward at Visual Thesaurus, presenting an interesting and plausible theory that the prevalence of the latter form in American published writing can be attributed to the efforts of copy...Tags: Mundelein
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Rand Paul stood up for us all
I hope I'm not too late to the fight. Last week, freshman Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., held an old-fashioned filibuster against the nomination of John Brennan to head the CIA. Paul's stated reason for taking to the floor and talking for 13 hours was that...Tags: G.K. Chesterton, The Wall Street Journal, John Brennan, Republican Party, Politics
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Why we shouldn't raise the minimum wage
In announcing his wrongheaded proposal to increase the minimum wage to $9 an hour, President Obama spoke in lofty terms: "In the wealthiest nation on Earth," he said in his State of the Union address last month, "no one who works full time should have...Tags: Unemployment, State of the Union Address, Barack Obama, Taxation, Labor Legislation
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Tax-free reading
Here's a quiz for all current and future college students and their families: Which of the following has risen in price the most sharply over the last several decades — tuition, health care, the consumer price index or textbooks? For the correct...
Tags: Consumers, Annapolis, University System of Maryland, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities
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Is anybody sad that Jim DeMint is leaving the Senate?
In a profession like politics and in a town like the nation's capital, the phenomenon of a U.S. senator voluntarily surrendering his seat for a think-tank job would have been unthinkable some years ago. The decision of Republican Jim DeMint of South...Tags: Jules Witcover, Republican Party, Olympia J. Snowe, Politics, Sharron E. Angle
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COLUMN: Obama's second term offers recipe for conservative revival
Washington Post Writers GroupWASHINGTON -- Happy days are not here again, but they are coming for conservatives. President Barack Obama -- with the lowest approval rating (according to Gallup, 50 percent, four points lower than that of the National Rifle Association) of any re-...Tags: Unemployment Benefits, Energy Resources, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Business, Barack Obama
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Rethinking our China strategy
Senate committees will soon be asked to vote on President Obama's nominees to head the departments of State and Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency. Many, if not most, of the senators' questions will be focused on the nominees' views on the...
Tags: Robert Zoellick, Iran's Nuclear Program, Pyongyang (North Korea), Barack Obama, China
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GOP to showcase Rubio as new face of party
In the Republican Party's developing effort to put on a new face after November's presidential defeat, the latest gesture is trotting out freshman Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida to deliver the GOP response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union...
Tags: Fidel Castro, Eric Cantor, Barack Obama, Health Insurance Cost, Republican Party
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Balanced budget amendment still a terrible idea
Frustrated by the persistence of large deficits and alarmed by the long-term gap between spending and revenue, congressional Republicans are promoting a constitutional amendment to require balanced budgets. Rep. Trent Franks, an Arizona Republican, tells...Tags: Justice System, Unemployment Benefits, Budgets and Budgeting, Barack Obama, Republican Party
Mar 20, 2013
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Mar 15, 2013
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Mar 19, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Mar 19, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 13, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Mar 10, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 11, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Dec 10, 2012
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Jan 27, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Jan 27, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Feb 8, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Feb 19, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
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