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Torture helped get bin Laden?
"Zero Dark Thirty," the film about the hunt for and killing of Osama bin Laden, got a fresh infusion of buzz over the weekend when outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta confirmed again that enhanced interrogation techniques aided the effort to find...
Tags: Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), George W. Bush, Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Movies
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The sequester stand-off
Is this really the best anyone in Washington can do to avert sequestration? President Barack Obama's call for delaying the automatic spending cuts past the March 1 deadline would seem reasonable enough, except he hasn't really offered up a specific plan...
Tags: John Boehner, U.S. Congress, Tea Party Movement, Social Security, Consumer Confidence
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The deficit control policy Democrats and Republicans can love
When it comes to fixing America's ballooning debt problem, there is one policy option that both Democrats and Republicans should be rushing to embrace. It is the proposal to replace the current Consumer Price Index (CPI) with a more accurate measure of...Tags: Pension and Welfare, Inflation and Deflation, Social Security, Community College of Baltimore County, Prices
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Study concludes FHA lending practices in Baltimore area could lead to high foreclosure rates
Homes with federally insured mortgages — afforded to mostly lower-income borrowers — are expected to see a spike in foreclosures because of dicey lending practices, according to a recent study. More than a dozen ZIP codes in the Baltimore...
Tags: Essex (Baltimore, Maryland), Foreclosures, Mortgages, Financial and Business Services, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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FHA policies helped cause foreclosure crisis
Imagine that a federal agency wanted to hurt America's working-class families on purpose. How would it inflict maximum damage? It might start by aggressively marketing homeownership to marginal borrowers. It would tell them that bad credit scores aren't...
Tags: Los Angeles Times, Fannie Mae, U.S. Congress, Foreclosures, Mortgages
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Conservatives haven't given up
The conservative Gotterdammerung is finally here. "Like dazed survivors in a ravaged city, America's conservatives are wailing and beating their collective breasts," opines the Economist's "Lexington" columnist. "A leading conservative thinker," asked...
Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Parties and Movements, Robert Novak, The Washington Post, Heritage Foundation
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Fix fiscal cliff by repairing GOP
Your recent editorial ("Obama's mandate," Nov. 7) where you recommend that President Barack Obama "needs to act immediately to persuade Congress to extend the deadline for sequestration another six months" is almost laughable if it wasn't so sad. Lest...Tags: John Boehner, Richard Mourdock, Brookings Institution, Psychotherapy, Republican Party
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Romney's biggest problem is his own party
There are two major theories about why Mitt Romney is dropping in the polls. One is that Romney is a lousy candidate, unable to connect with people or make his case. The other is that Americans are finally beginning to see how radical the GOPhas become...
Tags: Ann Romney, Elizabeth Warren, Mitt Romney, Scott P. Brown, Bill Clinton
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Obama has the wrong ideas; Romney seems to have no ideas
Going by the conventional rules of American politics, the Democratic Convention this week was an unmitigated disaster. And, going by the same rules, GOP convention was a disaster, too. So, either the rules of American politics have fundamentally changed,...
Tags: Abortion Issue, George W. Bush, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Small Businesses, Abortion
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Obama builds a bridge to the 20th century
A few years ago, it was fashionable for Democratsto describe themselves as "members of the reality-based community." These days, it seems the foreclosure crisis has hit them so hard they've been forced to move to another neighborhood. Metaphorically,...
Tags: China, Beijing (China), Fox News Channel (tv network), Tampa, David Axelrod
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Romney was right about culture and prosperity
One of the few things Americans on both sides of the partisan divide can agree on is that this election is shaping up to be vexingly petty. The hunt for gaffes -- some real, many imagined -- has taken over. Mitt Romney's recent overseas tour, we are told,...
Tags: Swiss Confederation, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Cultural Development, Mitt Romney, Hamas
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Next Baltimore Tech Parents Meetup: Aug 14th -- Featuring an evening of online ed talk!
We are excited to announce the next Happy Hour meetup of the Baltimore Tech Parents group -- and it will feature two tech entrepreneurs talking about the disruptive online learning space. The event is Tuesday, Aug. 14th, from 6 pm to 8 pm, at the Heavy...
Tags: Johns Hopkins University, StraighterLine, Colleges and Universities
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