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Healthcare educator Rainelle White (rear) checks the weight of client Norma Ferguson in the Family Van in Boston

Super Committee Should Not Be Bamboozled By Sham Medical Claims

The drum beat to limit medical care for the elderly grows louder. President Barack Obama's health law reduces future funding for Medicare by over $500 billion in the next decade and shifts most of those resources to fund a vast expansion of Medicaid. It's like robbing grandma to spread the wealth. To bamboozle the public, advocates for limiting health care spending on the elderly are distorting science to make their case.

'Bond Vigilantes' Push Italy, Spain Interest Rates Higher - is U.S. Next?

U.S. Budget Deficit
So far, the dispensers of global financial justice -- the bond vigilantes -- have given the U.S. a pass on the budget deficit issue. But that can’t last forever, which is why it behooves Democrats and Republicans to reach agreement on a budget deficit reduction package now, starting with a super committee agreement.
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Herman Cain: The Weary Traveler

Under normal circumstances, we could feel sorry for Herman Cain, who has never before held political office. If he were still just a businessman, it would all be horribly unfair. But Cain is more than that now, for the moment at least. He became a legitimate contender for the highest office -- President of the United States. With that comes the terrible trail, the one candidates must must be able to navigate like carefully stepping through a mine field with 1,000 pounds on their back if they hop...
Mario Monti

Mario Monti Arrives: The New Italian Technocratic Government

Can anyone bring any sense of fiscal stability and normalcy to the Italian government? Perhaps Mario Monti, center, can -- and all in the European Union, and those who believe in the euro, not just the citizens of Italy, will no doubt be rooting for him.
Rick Perry

Rick Perry Makes Light of Debate Gaffe on Letterman [VIDEO]

Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry appeared on the “Late Show with David Letterman” Thursday to poke fun at his gaffe at Wednesday’s GOP Presidential Debate when he claimed there are three government agencies he would eliminate as President – but then couldn’t name a third.
U.S. Housing Sector

Actually, Economic Trends in the U.S. Are Turning Positive

Investors are still in shock from the August-September 2011 financial market meltdown and still too deeply impacted by the 2008 financial crisis to examine the set of leading indicators that portend a strengthening of the U.S. economy.
Super Committee

Longing for Super Committee's Super Secret Days

One must ask if a committee that was once deemed too clandestine has now become a political device open to bullying by Congressional leadership, and if the American people will be the ultimate losers in this increasingly sad show?
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Why Penn State's Paterno Must Go Amid Sandusky Scandal

It's virtually not possible that Paterno had never before heard the allegations. So when Paterno was approached iin 2002 by an assistant coach in alleging that he saw Sandusky, the former Penn State coach who still had access to the athletic department including workout and locker Anrooms, engaged in a sex act with a child, he should have done more than simply pass a report to the school's athletic director, Tim Curley.
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Herman Cain's Big Mistake in the Sexual Harassment Fiasco

Herman Cain is right that once he got to the top, somebody let all the dogs out, and the media is working itself into a frenzy over the sexual harassment allegations, dogging the Republican presidential candidate who has never before held elected office about the story, trying to pin down what did or did not happen.
2012 Election

Rick Perry Speech Quotes Fake Occupy Wall Street Protester [VIDEO]

It's been a tough few days for Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas. A giddy speech he made in New Hampshire on Friday led commentators to question his sobriety, and now, the blogosphere is abuzz with the news that he used a fake quote to mock Occupy Wall Street protesters.
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Why Should U.S. Sacrifice More Soldiers in Thankless Afghanistan?

At least 12 Americans were killed in Kabul on Saturday when a Taliban suicide bomber unleashed the deadliest attack on U.S. armed forces since the shooting down of a helicopter in August that killed 30 Americans. More American blood sacrifice in a thankless beneficiary country...

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