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A few Americans will have to be sacrificed from time to time

Bottom line: The society at large, driven by the sermonizing of its elites, has come to an unstated conclusion that, unfortunately, a few Americans will have to be sacrificed from time to time, for the larger goal of establishing the fact that Americans in no way think Muslims ar …

GOP on health care: In 568 words, what's wrong with 1,990 pages

"This 1,990 pages of bureaucracy will centralize health care decision making in Washington, DC," Boehner said. "It'll require thousands of new federal employees.

Clunkers: Taxpayers paid $24,000 per car

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A total of 690,000 new vehicles were sold under the Cash for Clunkers program last summer, but only 125,000 of those were vehicles that would not have been sold anyway, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the automotive Web site Edmunds.com.

President Obama Reaffirms Power of Indefinite Detention

The Obama administration reaffirmed its belief this week that it has the power to indefinitely detain prisoners at Guantanamo and said it would not reach out and ask Congress to craft legislation to give them the authority.

Income Gap Shrinks in Slump at the Expense of the Wealthy

The deepest downturn in the U.S. economy since the Great Depression may finally shrink the gap between the very best-off Americans and everyone else. If so, it won't be by lifting up the bottom. It will be by pulling down the top.

'Racist' claims defuse once powerful word

But if everybody's racist, is anyone? The word is being sprayed in all directions, creating a hall of mirrors that is draining the scarlet R of its meaning and its power, turning it into more of a spitball than a stigma.

1 in 3 illegal residents arrives legally and just stays

Despite many promises, lessons of 9/11, problem mostly gets ignored.

Secret process benefits pet projects

WASHINGTON – A sleepy Montana checkpoint along the Canadian border that sees about three travelers a day will get $15 million under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan.

Cash-strapped Cuba says toilet paper running short

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba, in the grip of a serious economic crisis, is running short of toilet paper and may not get sufficient supplies until the end of the year, officials with state-run companies said on Friday.

California's Lesson For America

There's a collision between high and rising demands for government services and the capacity of the economy to produce the income and tax revenue to pay for those demands.

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