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Obama Healthcare Law: Two Justices May Decide Fate

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The legal fate of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law will likely come down to two Republican appointees on the U.S. Supreme Court -- Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy.

Obama Says Warren Buffett is Right About Taxes

U.S. President Obama speaks during a town hall-style event in Decorah
Small-town Americans probably don't make as much money as Warren Buffett, but they pay more of their income in taxes, President Barack Obama said on Monday, citing the billionaire investor to argue that the government needs more revenues to balance the budget.
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For Discussion: U.S. Job Market

Can the U.S. Congress do Anything to Create Jobs?

Some would have you believe the U.S. Congress can't do much to create jobs: not true. If Congress says "build us an aircraft carrier," a short time later, an aircraft carrier will appear. Likewise for roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, and the electric grid -- all of which in the U.S. need work and would create jobs.
Oil's Price

Oil Prices: The U.S. Economy?s Albatross

Institutional investors, turned off by a slow-growth economy that?s led to low-return stocks, piled in to oil, driving up its price, worsening the economic conditions that led them to invest in oil in the first place.
Sugarcane

Uganda to allow sugarcane plantation in virgin forest

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni will allow 7,100 hectares of virgin forest to be farmed for sugarcane, his spokesperson told Reuters on Monday, potentially triggering a repeat of protests that stopped a similar deal in 2007.
Strikers

S.Africa's municipal workers strike over wages

More than 200,000 South African municipal workers walked off the job on Monday, a trade union said, in a strike which intensifies labour strife that has rocked Africa's biggest economy.
Policemen gather at the site of a bomb attack in Najaf

Bombs, Attacks Hit Iraqi Cities, at Least 60 Dead

Suicide attackers and car bombs hit cities across Iraq on Monday, killing at least 60 people in apparently coordinated assaults authorities blamed on al Qaeda affiliates intent on destabilizing the government.
A Libyan rebel fighter raises his arms as a convoy of residents flee fighting near the coastal town of Zawiyah

Libya's Zawiyah on edge after rebel capture

For 12 hours, Libyan rebel Ahmed Oraybee had been moving from one building to the next in the town of Zawiyah, trying to hunt down the pro-government snipers stalking its neighbourhoods.
Obama

Obama Approval Rating Dips: Can He Still Champion Needed Reforms?

Critics have chided President Barack Obama for his economic reforms, which they view as too big, or too liberal. The reality is however, that if Obama's reforms don't stand, and the economic/social problems are not addressed, an even more-liberal public official will likely emerge to propose and enact bigger changes.
Warren Buffett

Stop Coddling the Entitled Welfare Class

The economic mess that America faces isn?t because of "extraordinary" tax breaks for high-net-worth Americans; it's the result of decades of social welfare programs that have created a permanent, self-perpetuating welfare state.

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