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Column: Testing teachers
Last Monday, 25,000 Chicago public school teachers went on strike to protest the educational reform agenda proposed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
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Paul Ryan speaks in Virginia
Set against a backdrop of crops in harvest and an American flag hanging from a crane, Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan delivered a speech that echoed the Romney campaign's focus on jobs, less government and a return to core American values.
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Column: Detroit – Obama’s economic blueprint for America
During his speech before the Democratic National Convention last week, Barack Obama offered a gem to rival his pledge from his 2008 campaign “moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and the planet began to heal.
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Column: Alarmism in the Middle East
On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly denounced President Barack Obama for failing to draw clear “red lines” around Iran’s nuclear program and rebuked the United States’ “moral right” to hold Israel back from independent military action.
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Column: Our personal American argument with oil resources
Oil is the energy that allows modern society to thrive. Unfortunately, it is non-renewable, meaning once it runs out, it’s gone. In 2010, Russia discovered a massive oil field in East Siberia. The deposit was said to hold at least 150 million metric tons of oil (around 1.
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Column: America can’t afford to live beyond its means
Friday’s job numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics are just another one of the many painful reminders of the recent economic collapse and ensuing recession. In the month of August, three times as many workers left the job market as found jobs.
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Column: Americans should not neglect the Syrian conflict
“Never again!” is the cry heard around the world — two words that recall both the fight against anti-Semitism after the Holocaust and a struggle for equality that continues today.
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Column: Debunking the middle class
Game theory suggests that in the final sum of things, Democratic politics is mostly about wooing the median voter, i.e. the individual or demographic whose inclusion will bring your coalition to 50.1 percent of the vote.
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Column: The economy still sucks
Last month, the national unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent. Given that the unemployment rate peaked at 10 percent in October 2009, the economy must have improved significantly over the last three years, right? Actually, no. In many ways, the economy has barely improved, if at all.