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How Media Can Build Civility or Destroy It
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The President's Speech as Consolation: Is That What is Needed?
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The conservative awakening

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

01/14/11

It wasn?t all that long ago that David Frum could credibly excommunicate Bob Novak, Pat Buchanan, and other conservative opponents of the Iraq war in the pages of National Review. Today, however, as the American empire goes into foreclosure, and a decade of constant war has brought us no closer to 'victory,' those who want to limit the power and expense of government are finally beginning to wake up to the war racket...

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GOP can eclipse Obama

Cato Institute Cato Institute
by Jim Harper

01/12/11

Congress's new rules package could mean that Republicans eclipse President Barack Obama on a signature issue: government transparency. During his first two years in office, the president generated a lot of heat in the transparency area ? but little sunlight. House Republicans can quickly outshine Obama and the Democratic Senate. It all depends on how they implement the watch phrase of their amendment package: 'publicly available in electronic form'...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12698



Wars to stay out of

Campaign For Liberty Campaign For Liberty
by Doug Bandow

01/13/11

Most people desire peace, but not Washington policy wonks. Safely ensconced in well-appointed offices throughout the nation's capital, a network of neoconservatives, leftish Wilsonians, and liberal hawks yearn for war. While they presumably don't actually enjoy the killing involved, most of them have never met a war they didn't want America to enter. And conflict is 'good for business' as they peddle foreign policy advice...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1288



The reflexive call for fewer liberties

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

01/12/11

What Galston is doing here is what the American political class reflexively does in the wake of every tragedy: it immediately seeks to exploit the resulting trauma and emotion to justify all-new restrictions on basic liberties (such as the right not to be locked away against one's will in the absence of a crime or a serious threat to others) and all-new government powers. Every traumatic event -- in the immediate, emotionally consuming aftermath -- leads to these sorts of knee-jerk responses...

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/12/galston


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Don?t buy government bonds

Ludwig von Mises Institute Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Frank Chodorov

published 1962; posted 01/13/11

In 1800, the United States Treasury owed $83 million. The population was then three million. Every baby born that year was loaded down with a debt burden of about $28; if the interest rate was 6 percent, the newborn citizen could look forward to paying a service charge on the national debt of $1.68 per year. Today the debt load of the nation comes to well over $290 billion, and the population is, in round figures, 180 million...

http://mises.org/daily/4922



Do NOT raise the federal debt limit

Downsize DC Downsize DC
by Jim Babka

01/12/11

I do not buy the scare stories predicting cataclysm if the debt ceiling isn't raised. I think the opposite is true. Investors will have more confidence in the U.S. if they see Congress taking a strong stand against cancerous spending and debt. Those who fund federal borrowing will feel INCREASED SECURITY that they'll get their money back...

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The giant US banks have been bailed out again from huge potential writeoffs by loosey-goosey accounting accepted by the accounting profession and the regulators.

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Dimon Warns

By William Alden

The JPMorgan CEO said he expects to see more U.S. municipalities declare bankruptcy. His concerns echo those of Meredith Whitney, the analyst who has said the next major financial crisis will come from a wave of local government defaults, and those of famed investor Warren Buffett, who has called the municipal debt situation a "terrible problem.

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US Banks 'Foreclosured On record 1m Homes in 2010'

By BBC

Banks repossessed a record one million US homes in 2010, and could surpass that number this year, figures show.

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By MARK MAZZETTI

An American teenager detained in Kuwait said he underwent a heated interrogation by F.B.I. agents for several hours on Wednesday, in a case that has renewed debate over the Obama administration's expansion of the no-fly list.

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