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Obama's doctrine: Lead from behind
"Obama may be moving toward something resembling a doctrine. One of his advisers described the president's actions in Libya as "leading from behind." — Ryan Lizza, the New Yorker, May 2. To be precise, leading from behind is a style, not a...Tags: Taiwan, Iran, The Washington Post, Libya, Europe
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Demagoguery 101: The Obama touch
"I'm going to do my part to lead a constructive and civil debate on these issues."
— Barack Obama, speech on immigration, El Paso, Texas, May 10
WASHINGTON — Constructive and civil debate — like the one Obama initiated just four...Tags: Migration, Justice and Rights, Career and Workplace, Crimes, Elections
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Why is Obama sending troops to Afghanistan?
From the beginning, the call to arms was highly uncertain. On Dec. 1, 2009, Commander in Chief Barack Obama orders 30,000 more Americans into battle in Afghanistan. But in the very next sentence, he announces that an American withdrawal will begin after...Tags: Washington (U.S. state), Abraham Lincoln, Afghanistan, David Petraeus, Barack Obama
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Obama: Modest about U.S., not himself
WASHINGTON — Remember NASA? It once represented to the world the apogee of American scientific and technological achievement. Here is President Barack Obama's vision of NASA's mission, as explained by administrator Charles Bolden: "One was he...Tags: Foreign Aid, Science, Islam, Justice and Rights, John F. Kennedy
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Obama pulled off the swindle of the year
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama won the great tax-cut showdown of 2010 — and House Democrats don't have a clue that he did. In the deal struck last week, the president negotiated the biggest stimulus in American history, larger than his $814 billion...Tags: Elections, Election Day, The Washington Post, State Budgets, Democratic Party
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Obama's Social Security snow job
WASHINGTON — Everyone knows that the U.S. budget is being devoured by entitlements. Everyone also knows that of the Big Three — Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security — Social Security is the most solvable. Back-of-an-envelope solvable:...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Career and Workplace, Social Security, Elections, Retirement
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Obama's secret plan: Governing by regulation
— Most people don't remember ObamaCare's notorious Section 1233, mandating government payments for end-of-life counseling. It aroused so much anxiety as a possible first slippery step on the road to state-mandated late-life rationing that the Senate...Tags: Healthcare Laws, Earl Blumenauer, Elections, U.S. Department of the Interior, The Washington Post
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President Obama, the new comeback kid
— If Barack Obama wins re-election in 2012, as is now more likely than not, historians will mark his comeback as beginning on Dec. 6, the day of the Great Tax Cut Deal of 2010. Obama had a bad November. Self-confessedly shellacked in the midterm...Tags: Al Gore, Elections, Bill Clinton, Election Day, The Washington Post
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Figuring out professor Obama's war
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is proud of how he put together the Libyan operation. A model of international cooperation. All the necessary paperwork. Arab League backing. A Security Council resolution. (Everything but a resolution from the...Tags: Brazil, Germany, Government, Heads of State, NATO
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Letters to the Editor - March 22
Social Security can be fixed To the editor: This is a reply to Charles Krauthammer’s article, “Obama fiddles as Social Security burns,” in the Sunday, March 13, Herald-Mail. If current trends do not change, Social Security,...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Transportation, Social Issues, Human Interest, Career and Workplace
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Letters to the Editor - March 13
Corporations, wealthy seem to miss out on 'sacrifice' To the editor: Can someone explain why public sector union workers are expected to give back their benefits and salaries in tough economic times, but the wealthy and corporations are somehow...Tags: Justice and Rights, Wisconsin, Career and Workplace, Government, Companies and Corporations
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Mail Call - Jan. 25
“Why do people try to keep blaming all the American people when someone gets shot or wounded by a gunman? ... But to try to get everyone to stop complaining about the conditions in this country and the need to fix it by blaming a senator’s and...Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Human Interest, Crimes, Career and Workplace, Social Security
May 2, 2011
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May 16, 2011
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Oct 4, 2010
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Jul 12, 2010
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Dec 13, 2010
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Mar 14, 2011
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Jan 3, 2011
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Dec 20, 2010
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Mar 28, 2011
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Mar 21, 2011
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Mar 12, 2011
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Jan 24, 2011
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