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Call It the Reagan Rule

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.12.2012

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Chris Weigant

Obama should take his own advice and publicly rename the idea the "Reagan Rule" -- and then run a television ad explaining why to the country.

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VIDEO: The World’s Worst Secretary

Posted 03.05.2012

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PHOTOS Secretary: The Rise And Fall Of The Office Wife

Lynn Peril | Posted 08.05.2011

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Lynn Peril

For over a century now, secretarial work has been extolled as a wonderful career opportunity for women -- and excoriated as dead-end busy work. Both characterizations are true.

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Obama Appoints Jeremy Bernard as White House Social Secretary

David Mixner | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Mixner

Jeremy Bernard will be the first male ever to serve as White House Social Secretary. Indefatigable, unfailingly affable and extremely knowledgeable, no one deserves this prestigious appointment more.

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Obama's USDA Less Transparent Than Bush's

Donald Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

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Donald Carr

The Environmental Working Group has worked hard to track the billions lavished on the wealthiest and largest farm operations in the country, in the ho...

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Secretary?!!

Bettina Duval | Posted 11.17.2011

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Bettina Duval

A few days ago my daughter phoned from college with the news that she had been asked to run for student government Secretary at college. Thoughts began to resonate in my mind "Why not President?"

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Solving The Buffett Conundrum On Taxes

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

Obama has leaked his first budget outline, and it appears he is serious about attempting to fix this tax policy travesty.

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Who (Or What) Fouled Up The Education Secretary Decision?

Alexander Russo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alexander Russo

In a transition that has overall gone relatively smoothly, the still-incomplete process of picking an Education Secretary... as turned a prolonged, openly antagonistic debacle.

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Obama's Education Secretary Must Be a Real Reformer

Marc Lampkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marc Lampkin

Now is the time for Obama to turn rhetoric into action by nominating for Education Secretary someone committed to carrying out real reform that extends down to every classroom in America.

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Friday Talking Points [55] -- "Bretton Woods II"? Not Quite.

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

I have to begin here today by stomping all over a cutesy term the media has come up with for the upcoming economic "summit" George W. Bush is holding ...

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