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History Is Knocking for Obama

Gimme a “health care” bill…any health care bill! Even if it kills the old and the sick by compulsory rationing. See, if somebody has only a statistical...

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Return of the Corporate Raiders

Writing at Time Magazine, Carl Schreck, a journalist we usually see writing at the National, has a piece on the proliferation of corporate raiding by government...

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South Carolina’s jobless rate soars in November (12.3%)

South Carolina’s economy shed more jobs in November as the holiday season got under way, with the unemployment rate jumping to 12.3%, in a month when the national...

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Panama consumer prices up 0.10 pct in November

PANAMA CITY, Dec 14 – Consumer prices in Panama rose 0.10 percent in November from the previous month, bringing the 12-month inflation rate to 1.40 percent,...

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Stimulus Funds for Martini Bars, Rat Sex?

The public's overall assessment of the condition of the national economy remains grim; 77 percent of Americans say the economy is in bad shape. The economic...

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OFFICIAL-Mexico recession ends with Q3 gdp growth

MEXICO CITY, Nov 20 – Mexico’s year-long recession ended during the third quarter, when the economy grew 2.93 percent, although output was still 6.2...

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SocGen Has Paid Back State Aid of $5 Billion Regulator Says

Societe Generale SA, France’s second-largest bank by market value, earlier this week repaid the 3.4billion euros ($5 billion) of state aid it received in thefinancial...

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GW College Republicans editorial: Stop the Entitlements

In the Obama White House, the new adage “never let a crisis go to waste” has highlighted the President’s overwhelming domestic agenda. So much so,...

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Militant Attacks Continue Amid Pakistan Army Push

A Pakistani motorway police officerwas killed today when a suspected suicide bomber blew up his carabout 140 kilometers (87 miles) south of the capital Islamabad,Agence...

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Militant Attacks Continue Amid Pakistan Anti-Taliban Offensive

A Pakistani motorway police officerwas killed today when a suspected suicide bomber blew up his carabout 140 kilometers (87 miles) south of the capital Islamabad,Agence...

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Delhi’s abattoir shut amid protests

NEW DELHI – The raging five-year battle between the civic agency and meat trader associations in the national capital saw its final turn Thursday when the...

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Delhi’s new industrial policy to be IT driven

NEW DELHI – Delhi’s first industrial policy since 1982 has been drawn up, and it will be IT driven, it was announced Friday. According to an official...

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