Clinton Administration

You're on Your Own, Kids

Robert Scheer | Posted 04.12.2012

Who will speak for the rights of the unborn now that Rick Santorum is gone from the race? Let me give it a whirl from the perspective of one whose own unwed mother had several abortions before yours truly was permitted to emerge.

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A Friendship With Hillary Clinton's Mother: The Influence of Mrs. Rodham

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton's Mother, Hillary Clinton, Dorothy Rodham, Washington DC, Dorothy-Rodham-Death, Clinton Administration, National Zoo, White House, Politics News

Despite our multi-generation gap, we hit it off because we were both Gemini, she said. I visited her in Little Rock and she guided me down the cellar stairs, the wall lined with old pictures, each with a story.

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Major White House Official Says He Won't Stay Past 2012

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.11.2011

White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley told NBC Chicago Monday that he will not stay past President Barack Obama's re-election. "I made a commitment to...

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President Obama Asks Tim Geithner To Remain U.S. Treasury Secretary

Posted 10.04.2011

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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has asked Timothy Geithner to stay on as U.S. Treasury Secretary and a decision is expected soon, officials sa...

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Replicating the Bipartisan Economic Successes of the 1990s

Dean Garfield | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Clinton Administration, Free Trade, Innovation, U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement, Corporate Tax Reform, Democrats, Japan, 1990s, Obama Administration, North Africa, Broadband, Information-and-Communication-Technology, Internet, Bipartisanship, Technology, Economic Growth, Job Creation, Republicans, Politics News

As with the 1990s, there are real opportunities in front of both parties to enact genuine, meaningful, pro-growth reforms that will energize the nation's high-tech economy, create American jobs and build a more prosperous future.

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When the House Comes Back, You're Gonna Get in Trouble

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Libya, Obama Administration, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Congress, Diplomacy, Clinton Administration, Foreign Policy, Politics News

Here is some unsolicited advice for the Obama administration: you essentially have four days to put US involvement in the Libya war on a path that doesn't look like open-ended quagmire.

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President of the World? Legacy Hunting With Bill Clinton

Michael Takiff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Clinton Administration, Chris Matthews, Politics News

Greatness may be closer to Bill Clinton's grasp now than ever before. He is shorter on resources than he was as president; but the impediments he once faced have fallen away, too.

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Do Regulations Cost $1.75 Trillion? Not Exactly

Sidney Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Regulation, Small Business Administration, Bush Administration, Health, Safety, Nicolee Crain, House Republicans, Environment, Office of Advocacy, Center for Progressive Reform, Health Care Legislation, Wall Street, Clinton Administration, Politics News

The opponents of regulation would love nothing more than to re-litigate all the battles they've lost over the years. They're free to try, but at the very least, they owe the American public an honest accounting.

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A New Decade's Trajectory

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Progress, Obama Administration, Bush Administration, Clinton Administration, Politics News

With a new decade upon us, I've been thinking a lot about where we were as a country 10 years ago. In January of 2000, things were looking pretty good in comparison to what we are seeing today.

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"So Many Girls! So Little Time!": Behind the Facade of Sex Tourism

Chelsea-Lyn Rudder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Melanne Verveer, Philippines, President Obama, Douglas Allen, Equality Now, Sex Tourism, Poughkeepsie, Thailand, New York, Clinton Administration, Carolyn Maloney, Prostitution, Southeast Asia, Big-Apple-Oriental-Tours, President Clinton, New York News

Big Apple Oriental Tours, an international sex tourism agency, brazenly flaunts its services on the Internet.

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For Everything There is a Season: A Time to Compromise and a Time to Fight

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2010 Obama Administration, Deficit Commission, Clinton Administration, Politics News

My advice for Obama is to not wait as long as Bill Clinton did in 1994 to stand his ground on important issues. It's important to have a give-and-take, but it's also important to pick some fights.

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Anticipating a Great Victory for Real Americans Today

Dorian de Wind | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Trade Deficit, Bush Administration, Gdp Growth, National Debt, Federal Budget Deficit, Surplus, Elections 2010, Obama Administration, Real Americans, Clinton Administration, Barack Obama, Great Depression, Politics News

We really told them phony-baloney Democrats today. What a great day for patriots, for Real America, for Real Americans. We voted for real change, not for that phony hopey-changey.

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U.S. General: Clinton Official Suggested Letting U.S. Plane Be Shot Down To Provoke War With Iraq

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, War in Iraq, War With Iraq, Shelton Book, Hugh Shelton, Clinton Administration, Without Hesitation, Clinton War With Iraq, Clinton Plane Shot Down, Gen Hugh Shelton, Iraq, Hugh Shelton Book, Politics News

In the publicity sheet that St. Martin's Press has been sending out to spur interest in General Hugh Shelton's new memoir, Without Hesitation: The Ody...

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Rahm Emanuel's Legacy

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, White House, White House Chief of Staff, Clinton Administration, President Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, David Plouffe, Obama Administration, Pete Rouse, Rahm Emanuel, President Bill Clinton, David Axelrod, Health Care Reform, Hillary Clinton, President George W. Bush, Tarp, Politics News

The toughness of Rahm Emanuel was always something of a myth embraced by a somewhat unquestioning media who happily mistook bluster and machismo for toughness and strength.

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Robert Reich Predicts A 'Revolt Against Wealthy'

Bloomberg | James Pressley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert B. Reich Aftershock, Laura Tyston, Robert Reich, Economics, Bank of America, Wages, Economy, Ronald Reagan, President Obama, Obama Administration, Reich Aftershock, Obama, Obama Economy, Robert Reich Aftershock, Recession, Clinton Administration, US Economy, u.s. Economy Problems, Obama Economics, Robert J. Samuelson, Barack Obama, Economic Recession, Recession Fears, Bill Clinton, Economic Recovery, Paul Volcker, U.S. Economy, Volcker, Books News

The bargain broke down when middle-class America buckled under global competition and labor-replacing technology. Reich blames what happened next on t...

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Not Fidel's Cuba Anymore When Los Aldeanos Perform in Miami

Anya Landau French | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cuba Travel Restrictions, People-to-People, Cuban Rap, Los-Aldeanos, Cuba Travel Ban, Obama Administration, Silvito El Libre, Cuba, Clinton Administration, Arts News

Letting Cuban underground rappers perform in Miami shows Havana being pragmatic or fair, or both, and it's just one more indication that we're no longer dealing with Fidel Castro's Cuba.

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Fiscal Expert Answers Six Essential Questions About The Deficit

niemanwatchdog.org | Jump | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Herbet Hoover, Bond Market, Bill Clinton, Congress, Unemployment, Wall Street, Federal Deficit, Derivatives, Clinton Administration, Blue Dog Democrats, Business News

Fiscal expert Stan Collender points out that the bond market is not demanding deficit reduction -- in fact, quite the opposite. So where is the Washin...

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Sacred Tax Cows: It's Them or Us

Edward D. Kleinbard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, Social Security, Tax Policy, Clinton Administration, Tax Deductions, Tax Policy Center, Politics News

Everyone likes certain tax breaks but we much choose: we can maintain our herd of hideously expensive tax sacred cows, or we can sacrifice them and set the country on the path to fiscal health.

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Agriculture Secretary Puts The Brakes On New Roads In National Forests

AP | JEFF BARNARD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, Public Land, Roadless Rule, Clinton Administration, Denver News

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Reality Check: Who Are the Factual Journalists?

Ali Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011

In "Who are the Terrorists," Kenneth Timmerman rehashes absurd tabloid allegations against the main Iranian opposition group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq.

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A Deficit in Their Thinking

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Progressive Taxation, 2010 Obama Administration, Deficit, Deficit Hawks, Pete Peterson, Taxation, Clinton Administration, Politics News

Progressives can't ignore America's projected budget deficits. We need a proactive strategy -- focused on rebuilding a broadly prosperous economy -- to push back on the conservative deficit hawks.

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Is Iran the New Four-Letter Word?

Nazee Moinian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, Hertzliya Conferences, Obama Iran, Iran Election, Middle East Politics, Clinton Administration, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Iran Threat, Middle East, Middle East Peace Process, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama Iran Engagement, Israel, Iran Nuclear Program, Richard Haass, Israel Iran, World News

I came back from the Hertzliya Conferences, Israel's political follow up to Davos, with the eerie sense that a new four-letter word has emerged in the international arena: Iran.

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Moving Towards Sanity in Crazy Times

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2010 Obama Administration, Bill Clinton, Progressive Movement, Clinton Administration, Chris Hayes, Politics News

Six megabanks control assets amounting to more than 60% of the country's gross domestic product. How does our economy ever function under the weight of that kind of concentration of wealth and power? How does our democracy?

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An Open Letter to the President: It's Time for Change, Not Spending Freezes

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

It's time to be bold, Mr. President. Where is that audacity of hope? It's time to introduce a bold jobs-creation bill, and to replace your Wall Street-stained economic team members.

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Harold Ford Has a Caribbean American Dilemma, and a Trip to Haiti Won't Cut It

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Curry Coat, West Indians, Al Sharpton, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Bronx, News, Brooklyn, Clinton Administration, Congressman Harold Ford, Buffalo, New York Senate Race, Harold Ford Jr., NY Senate Seat, Bob Marley, Banana, Latin America, Mayor Bloomberg, Politics, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Chiquita Banana, Haiti, New York, New York City, Harold Ford, Caribbean, Harlem, African American, Orange County, Dominica, MT Vernon, Tourism, Kirsten Gillibrand, Caribbean American, Reverend Al Sharpton, Greneda, New York News

Caribbean American leaders question Ford's sincerity when it comes to issues that impact the nearly 700,000 Caribbean Americans in New York City alone.

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