Peter Dreier: Lessons from FDR: When the Right Cries Wolf, Bite Back
The fight over Social Security isn’t really about old-age insurance; rather, it is a place-holder for broader concerns. The fight is about what kind of country we want to be and what values we consider most important.
How the US economy is being ‘Japanised’ | Chris Payne
Federal Reserve policy is taking a worrying turn towards monetarism. This can only result in an American ‘lost decade’ In 1963, Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz wrote a seminal piece on the Great Depression ( A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 ), parts of which have become accepted wisdom in monetary policy and theory ever since. Friedman and Schwartz’s argument is that what …
Philip Smucker: Obama and That Damn Mosque: A Clarion Voice for Freedom
There remains an unfortunate and irrefutable perception in the Muslim world that Americans only pay lip service to their own ideals of freedom. Fortunately, President Obama’s defense of the Cordoba House helps to change that.
America’s secret war on terrorism widens
America’s secret war on terrorism widens
As China Expands in Latin America, Tensions Fester at Its Mining Venture in Peru
A long-festering conflict in a mining town does not square well with China s portrayal of its rising profile in Latin America, in which everyone benefits.
Ralph Lopez: The Real Story Behind Time’s Afghan Woman Cover: American Complicity
Self-immolation and the suicide rate among Afghan women are at an all time high. The constant state of war only strengthens the Taliban by placing them in the position, as disliked as they are, of national liberators.
Zahra Khan: The Potpourri Resolution for a Ground Zero Mosque
Adherents to Islam form a vulnerable racial minority before a prejudiced media that uses religious misnomers like “Islamic terrorist” to develop public support for attacking adherents to Islam, a word that literally means “Peace.”
I Strongly Oppose The Building of Mosque in The Land of Massive Killing By Terrorists At 9/11 Attack
September 11 terrorists attack were series of suicidal attack by terrorists Al-Qaeda to United States of America people on September 11, 2001. At that morning, 19 terrorists Al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial passengers jet airliners and intended to crash the planes to vital building of United States of America such as World Trade Center, Pentagon and Capitol Building.
Fox News Hosts Agree With Obama’s Defense Of Ground Zero Mosque: ‘He Has To Stand Up For Our Constitution’
Reacting to President Obama’s forceful defense of Muslims’ rights to build a new Islamic community center near Ground Zero, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) — who…
Victoria Kennedy After Ted Kennedy’s Death: Health Care Reform & White House Job Offers
The Obama administration, grateful for Ted Kennedy’s help in pushing the health care law on Capitol Hill and cognizant of [Victoria Reggie Kennedy's] political skills,…
