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Why Buffett's 'Shared Sacrifice' Should Only Be The Start

Bloomberg | Jonathan Weil | Posted 10.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Stock Market Crash, Wall Street, Senate Banking Committee, Stock Market, Walter Lippmann, Banking Crisis, Federal Reserve, Warren Buffett, New York Times, Wells Fargo & Co., Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Business News

Whenever the leadership class feels nervous, you can count on some of them to offer the less-moneyed masses a bone to demonstrate they care. Warren Bu...

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Obama Should Adopt the "Public Option" in Afghanistan

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: John McCain, The Surge, Foreign Policy Elites, President Barack Obama, Democrats, Bush, Afghanistan War, Foreign Policy, Iraq War, Conservatives, President George W, Vietnam War, Tim Geithner, Walter Lippmann, Stanley McChrystal, Neoconservatives, Hillary Clinton, Washington Post, Republicans, Politics News
Leon T. Hadar

Will Obama disappoint the foreign policy elites or will he, like Bush, send a "Drop Dead" message to the American people?

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Obama's Weak Congress

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Andrew Sargus Klein

I fear a Congress that, while not so much parasitic, is so fearful of being attached to any of Obama's failures that it misses every opportunity to be a part of his successes.

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Paris Hiltons of Elections Past

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Paris Hilton, John F Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mccain Paris Hilton Ad, Walter Lippmann, Paris Hilton Mccain Ad, Norman Mailer, Barack Obama, Grand Theft Jesus, Ronald Reagan, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

When they ran for president, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy were seen as fluff -- celebrities -- but they are now generally seen as the two greatest presidents of the past century.

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How Tim Russert Got His Start

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Josh Brolin, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Hugh Carey, NBC News, Tim Russert, Mario Cuomo, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Woodrow Wilson, Chris Matthews, Patrick Buchanan, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Hubert Humphrey, Dick Cheney, Buffalo, Maureen Orth, Boston College, The West Wing, Lawrence O'Donnell, George Stephanopoulos, William S. WhiteWilliam Safire, Adali Stevens Joseph Kraft, David Brinley, Walter Lippmann, Jimmy Carter, Al Smith, Lyndon Johnson, Larry Grossman, Clayton Fritchey, David Burke, Media News
Martin Nolan

For more than 30 years, my friendship with Tim was rooted in a shared Irish heritage and similar education, with minimal emphasis on self-expression and more on what Tom Brokaw calls "accountability."

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