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Obama's Numbers Don't Add Up

Sixty days ago President Obama submitted a fiscal year 2012 budget to Congress. Today, candidate Barack Obama gave a nice talk about “hope and change” commenting on the passing scene in Washington and bemoaning the overspending and debt and runaway spending that have somehow gotten much worse over the past …

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Day 3 of a World Without Bin Laden — Has Anything Changed?

Ten years ago, in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, Americans felt vulnerable. Our fear was magnified by the 24 hour cable news media and our tendency to attach ourselves voyeuristically to the news. Fear is a very powerful emotion, and it led us to personalize the risk, …

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Is Obama Playing a 'Game of High Stakes Chicken' With Israel & the Palestinians?

In contrast to the immense transformation the Middle East is undergoing, President Obama’s speech Thursday offered only minor modifications to decades-old “solutions” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These ‘solutions’ have been negotiated and repackaged numerous times under even more popular and willful Palestinian and Israeli leaderships. Yet, much-desired peace remains elusive. …

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