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Harold Meyerson: The road to America's recovery starts in L.A.
Washington Post
A life spent stranded in Los Angeles traffic can nonetheless yield its epiphanies. One such moment came in November 2008, when L.A. County's beleaguered commuters voted to increase their sales tax by half a cent over the next...
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Doomsday in Iraq -- is it really just around the corner?
LA Times
We've now been at war intermittently with Iraq for almost 20 years, and with Afghanistan for 30. It adds up to nearly half a century of experience, all bad. Yet an expanding crew of Washington-based opiners is calling...
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‘Madmen, Fools’ Would Scuttle a Recovery: David G. Blanchflower
Bloomberg
March 10 (Bloomberg) -- John Maynard Keynes wrote during the Great Depression that only “fools and madmen” will tell you “the path of escape is to be found in strict economy.” Several countries have now started “strict economy,”...
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California's College Dreamers
Wall Street Journal
Hundreds of University of California students rallied against a 32% tuition hike last week. Let's hope their future employers get a better work product. With just a little research, the students could have discovered that compensation packages won...
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Progress
Chicago Tribune
There's been a march of good news lately from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yes, good news from a region where many Americans don't necessarily expect it.Here's what we've seen recently:•Last weekend, Iraq staged its latest parliamentary elections. Once...
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Ruth Marcus: A rivalry bonded in love
Washington Post
This time, I dispensed with the wheatgrass. Two years ago, I wrote about my daughter's bat mitzvah, the ceremony marking a Jewish child's transition to adulthood. I have a self-imposed rule that personal columns must contain a broader...
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Medicine in the dark
LA Times
Some doctors treat patients with early-stage prostate cancer with radiation. Others favor surgery, while some advocate only close monitoring. Which approach is most successful? No one knows.When it comes to diabetes management, doctors don't have answers to key...
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Read Rove's New Book
FOX News
To read Chapter 2 -- King of the College Republicans -- from "Courage and Consequence" click here.From COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE by Karl Rove. Copyright 2010 by Karl Rove. Reprinted by permission of Threshold, a Division of Simon &...
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