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State of Union: What Ronald Reagan Can Teach Barack Obama (Time)
Back in January 2008, while meeting with the editorial board of the Reno Gazette-Journal before the Democratic Nevada caucuses, Barack Obama offered some approving commentary on the legacy and influence of the 40th President. Ronald Reagan, he said, “changed the trajectory of America in a way that, you know, Richard Nixon did not and in [...]
STATE OF THE UNION PREVIEW: Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss
When faced with a crisis of presidency or loss of public confidence, the experienced political warrior like a Truman or Johnson would stare into the abyss and summon the fortitude to continue unabated. A Kennedy would call upon his cabinet, and the “best and brightest” minds in our country to confer and analyze. These were [...]
Toyota Issues New Recall For 2.3 Million Vehicles. Stops Making Camry And Corolla Models (Los Angeles Times)
The affected vehicles, including the top-selling Camry and Corolla, were recalled because the gas pedal can stick and cause unwanted acceleration. Toyota will also stop making them effective Monday.
Toyota Motor Corp. is temporarily halting sales and production of eight models, including the top-selling Camry and Corolla, that it has recalled because the accelerator pedal can [...]
Democrats Put Health Care On The ‘Back Burner’ (AP/Baynews9.com)
Democrats retreated Tuesday from a quick push to pass President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, lacking a workable strategy to salvage the sweeping legislation that has consumed Congress for more than a year.
“There is no rush,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said after a meeting of Senate Democrats. His comments came as two centrists [...]
STATE OF THE UNION PREVIEW: Obama Proposes Economic Help For Middle Class (Washington Post)
1. Expanding the child-care tax credit:
The child-care tax credit now starts at 35 percent of child-care costs for the poorest families and drops to 20 percent of costs for families earning $43,000 or more. The proposal calls for a credit of 35 percent of child-care costs for all families earning as much as $85,000, with [...]
11 Foods Your Dentist Doesn’t Want You To Eat! (Yahoo! Health)
A fully grown male deer. The carbon body of a 2007 Shelby Mustang Funny Car. Tom Cruise. And all the sugar and other sweeteners you, the average American, will eat this year. What do they all have in common? They all weigh approximately 140 pounds. Life is sweet, all right—so sweet that each of us [...]
Consumers Are Squeezed As Inflation Outpaces Wages (Yahoo! News)
The spending power of families is being squeezed, government data showed Friday, highlighting doubts about consumers’; ability to drive the economic rebound.Workers saw their inflation-adjusted weekly wages fall 1.6 percent last year — the sharpest drop since 1990 — even as consumer prices rose only modestly. Slack pay and scarce job growth, along with tight [...]
Obama to Propose Spending Freeze To Trim Deficit (New York Times)
President Obama will call for a three-year freeze in spending on many domestic programs, and for increases no greater than inflation after that, an initiative intended to signal his seriousness about cutting the budget deficit, administration officials said Monday.
The officials said the proposal would be a major component both of Mr. Obama’s State of the [...]
9 Signs of America in Decline (U.S. News)
The sky isn’t falling, exactly. America isn’t on a fast track to irrelevance. Even in a state of total neglect, we could probably shamble along as a disheveled superpower for a few more decades.
But all empires end, and the warning signs of American decline seem to be blinking more consistently. In the latest annual “prosperity [...]
Tea Party, Disorganized, But Gaining Ground (Los Angeles Times)
Reporting from Washington – When Matt Clemente went to a December meeting of “tea party” activists in Worcester, Mass., he was shocked to find the hall packed.
“They were all talking about Scott Brown,” he said.
That was when Clemente, a student at College of the Holy Cross, realized Brown wasn’t just another Republican running a long-shot [...]
