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May 2, 2012 8:53 A.M. In the last issue of National Review, I discussed a fascinating new paper that indicated that policy uncertainty dramatically reduced GDP and employment growth over the last few years. The article (which was written before last week’s disappointing GDP-data release) suggested that the coming Taxmageddon could be the mother of all uncertainty events, and that [...]

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11:43 PM on 21st December 2011 A Navy tradition caught up with the repeal of the U.S. military’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ rule when two women sailors became the first to share the coveted home-coming ‘first kiss’ on the pier. Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta of California, descended from the USS Oak Hill  after [...]

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2) 12:45 a.m.: Willie Brown, the Mayor of San Francisco gets a call from what he described as his airport security advising him that Americans should be cautious about their air travel on September 11th. Mayor Brown was scheduled to fly from San Francisco to New York City on September 11th. 3) 6:00 a.m.: A [...]

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Most of us are not archaeologists or astronomers, anthropologists or astrologers. Yet the majority of what is written about one of the most exciting and relevant subjects of our day – the approaching Winter Solstice 2012 end-date of the Mayan Calendar – appears in words aimed at specialists and couched in language that can be [...]

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06/14/11 10:30 AM ET This early in the season, a presidential primary debate is essentially about winning the battle of the buzz. On a crowded stage, the objective is to separate oneself in a way that captures media attention and drives post-debate conversation. The contender who best accomplished that in Monday’s CNN New Hampshire debate [...]

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July 4, 2011 The United States does not have to default on its debt, and the social security and Medicare checks can go out even if Republicans and President Obama cannot strike a deal to raise the debt ceiling by August 2. Even though the government cannot borrow additional money, it still has tax revenues [...]

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March 14, 2011, 2:52 pm One of the most abundant substances in the cloud of radioactive steam released by a failing nuclear power plant is iodine-131—a radioactive form of the element, iodine, that is found throughout nature. Iodine-131 poses a special health risk because of its cancer-causing effect on the thyroid gland. The small, butterfly-shaped [...]

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November 29, 2010 2:39 a.m. EST Joint military exercises between South Korea and the United States continued in the Yellow Sea on Monday as tensions with nearby North Korea continue to brew. On Monday, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said South Korea will “firmly” respond to future provocations from North Korea and declared that his [...]

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Sunday March 21st, 2010 President Obama won a historic victory in the struggle for health care reform Sunday as the House of Representatives passed a sweeping bill overhauling the American medical system. The bill passed in a 219-212 vote after more than a year of bitter partisan debate. from:  http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/21/health.care.main/index.html?npt=NP1 The was bill passed at [...]

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