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American-Made Index: Odds and Ends
KickingTiresCompiling the American-Made Index always brings its share of interesting tidbits, and this year had no shortage. Here are a few: For 2012, the highest domestic parts content for a single vehicle comes in the Toyota Matrix hatchback. According to......Tags: Trade Agreements, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Plant Openings, Manufacturing and Engineering, Automotive Equipment
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Memo to Emery: Draft starters. Plural.
My issue isn’t that Bears General Manager Phil Emery has fewer draft picks than he has positional needs. Every GM has fewer picks than he has needs. Just ask them. But for those of you keeping score at home, Tribune football guru Dan Pompei did...
Tags: Shea McClellin, Johnny Knox, Jay Cutler, Jerry Angelo, Football
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A floor of decency
Robert Koehler"Everywhere near the building, the stench of death was overpowering. Men in surgical masks sprayed disinfectant in the air." We move from tragedy to tragedy with hellish regularity. "The scope of injuries," Jim Yardley writes in the New York Times, "was...Tags: The Huffington Post, The New York Times, Bangladesh, Robert Koehler, Labor Legislation
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Tara Kolla, L.A's down-to-earth urban farmer
Tara Kolla was born in Inglewood but grew up in Europe. She came back to Los Angeles, to a half-acre Silver Lake plot, where she decided to try her hand at "urban farming." Her neighbors objected, so now she mostly works other people's land, and works...
Tags: Coca-Cola Co., Peas, Rentals, Genetic Engineering, The Home Depot
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At last Notre Dame back where it should be
When Notre Dame last won a football game that made the Irish the No. 1 team in the country, 19 long years ago, then-coach Lou Holtz received a congratulatory phone call from President Bill Clinton. "We talked a little about NAFTA," Holtz cracked then....
Tags: Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Bill Clinton, Football, College Football, Brian Kelly
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Obama's cynicism for me, not for thee
Jonah Goldberg"My rival in this race," President Obama announced early in 2007, "is not other candidates. It's cynicism." It's now clear that what he meant by this was other people's cynicism -- not his own. As you may recall, Obama came into office a very...Tags: Bill Clinton, Tim Russert, Iraq War (2003-2011), Budgets and Budgeting, Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy Repeal (2010)
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Ron Paul's popularity in Iowa a sign of a war-weary America
Tribune Media ServicesPARIS -- The opinion polls' forecast that Rep. Ron Paul would do well in the Iowa Republican caucus has surely not been evidence of a surge in Iowa of hostility to the Federal Reserve and to free trade. If Paul comes out at or close to the top in the...Tags: Fox Broadcasting Company, Government, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Afghanistan, Islam
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Tour bus crash: Federal investigators looking at maintenance records
L.A. NOWFederal officials spent Tuesday scouring a San Diego-area bus company's office, interviewing the owner and taking maintenance records as part of their investigation into the tour bus crash on California 38 that killed seven and injured dozens more.... -
Tour bus crash: Residents smelled burning brakes, heard horn
L.A. NOWResidents of the San Bernardino Mountain community of Mountain Home Village heard a bus roar by Sunday night, its horn honking, and smelled burning brakes in its wake. Moments later, it would hit a car, fall on its side and...... -
Pinocchio-bama
Change of Subject[President Barack] Obama has set a standard whereby politicians today will simply lie without bothering to offer a justification — even a far-fetched or dishonest one — for their dishonesty. This is a president who explicitly promised to... -
Money laundering, tax evasion suck billions from Mexican economy
World NowThe Mexican economy is "hemorrhaging" billions of dollars annually because of money laundering, tax evasion and other corruption, a new study has found.... -
“The Undefeated” director Stephen K. Bannon talks Sarah Palin, “Game Change”
Channel Guide MagazineBy Stacey Harrison For the most part, my conversation with Stephen K. Bannon is civil and friendly. This might surprise folks who expect the director of the unabashedly pro-Sarah Palin documentary The Undefeated — which airs on ReelzChannel Sunday...
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