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Liberals should lead entitlement reform
If liberals succeed in blocking any serious entitlement reform during the Obama presidency, as seems increasingly likely, they will have handed conservatives a ...
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An Adventure For Kids And Maybe For Their Parents Too
, a kids' show on Cartoon Network. Some are surely Emmy voters. (It's won three.) Others are very possibly stoners. Still others are intellectuals. Lev Grossman falls in the last category. He wrote two best-selling ...
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The NFL To Your Purse Drop Dead
policy change in which only clear plastic bags would be allowed into stadiums -- one per person. Nothing they can't see through. The league says that the change is meant to ensure safety while speeding up security checks and preventing gate backups, which sounds good enough at the outset. In the handful of days since, this has largely been framed as an issue affecting women, who won't ...
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In Slight Defense Of Miss Utah USA A Little Bit With Reservations
Television personality and host Giuliana Rancic looks on as Miss Utah USA Marissa Powell answers a question from a judge during the interview portion of the 2013 Miss USA pageant on Sunday ...
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The Kremlins Managed Mayoral Election
The most intriguing aspect of the early mayoral election in Moscow is its complete lack of suspense. Almost two weeks have passed since pro-Kremlin ...
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Defense cuts Start by cutting whats not needed
The Pentagon says it doesn’t need them, can’t afford to maintain them. Two congressional panels say you’re stuck with them. At a time of federal budget squeezing, the Defense Department’s effort to close installations rendered unnecessary by troop drawdowns has hit a political ...
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Putin on the Front Burner
Nikolai Petrov Two full years after it was first created, the All-Russia People's Front gained official status only last week under the new name of the People's Front for Russia. ...
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Letter Deconstructing Snowden
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Globe Editorial In a Syrian civil war with ‘thugs’ on both sides what matters now is peace
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's charge that Russia is siding with "thugs" in Syria was an accurate expression of the West's frustration over Russian President Vladimir Putin's apparent indifference to the slaughter occurring in the Middle East country. But while a fair comment, it was also beside the point. Canada and the rest of the G8 should be searching for common ...
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Supreme Courts gene patent ruling was overdue
It seems obvious that a company shouldn’t hold a patent on something that the human body produces. Proprietary patents, after all, protect the exclusive rights to make, use or sell a creation or invention - not something that occurs in ...
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Making Moscow a Comfortable Place to Live
Sergei Sobyanin presented Moscow's priorities for the next five years with a report titled "Moscow: A City that Is Comfortable for Life." Some people may immediately decide that it is just part of his election campaign. But if you look at the seven priorities and compare them to the changes that are actually happening in Moscow, you will see it is a real program that is shaping ...
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I Dont Believe in Economic Confidence Fairies
The doctrine of imposing present pain for future benefit has a long history, stretching all the way back to 18th-century British economist Adam Smith and his praise of "parsimony." It is particularly vociferous in "hard times." In 1930, U.S. President Herbert Hoover was advised by his treasury secretary, Andrew Mellon: "Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the ...
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Op-Ed Contributor Protecting Europes Privacy
Here we go again: Another violation of the basic right to privacy. Another public outcry. Another blow to ...
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Op-Ed Columnist Obamas German Storm
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Turkmenistan's new olympic development could be blessing or curse
Work has finally begun on the massive Ashgabat Olympic complex development, a US $5 billion project that aims to enhance the standing of the capital city when Turkmenistan makes a bid to host the Olympic Games.
The sports complex being built in Ashgabat will be the largest and most state-of-the-art of its kind in Central Asia, underscoring Turkmenistan’s position as a regional power due to the country’s extensive natural gas and oil reserves, while its completion will also illustrate the growing presence of the country in the international community. Read more
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