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A small group of U.S. legislators should be announcing a plan to clean up their country’s fiscal mess. Instead, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (the “Supercommittee”) gave up, two days early. Its failure to agree on how to cut $1.2-tr...
DATE: Nov 28, 2011
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WASHINGTON Just be patient and you, too, can lead the polls for the Republican presidential nomination. Witness the ascent of Herman Cain.
Don’t laugh. “There’s a difference between the flavour of the week and Haagen-Dazs Black Walnut, because it tas...
DATE: Oct 15, 2011
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WASHINGTON Occupy Wall Street and its kindred protests around the country are inept, incoherent and hopelessly quixotic. God, I love ‘em.
I love every little thing about these gloriously amateurish sit-ins. I love that they are spontaneous, leaderles...
DATE: Oct 13, 2011
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Here’s my question for the Republican Party: How’s that Rick Perry stuff workin’ out for ya?
You’ll recall that Sarah Palin asked a similar question last year about President Obama’s “hopey-changey stuff.” Indeed, hopey-changey has been through a bad...
DATE: Sep 27, 2011
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Politicians, especially United States senators, don’t tend to give up power easily. Imagine Lyndon Johnson voluntarily leaving the Senate leadership especially at a moment when his party seemed poised to win the majority.
So it was a surprising momen...
DATE: Sep 26, 2011
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WASHINGTON The death penalty is a barbaric anachronism, a crude instrument not of justice but of revenge. Most countries banished it long ago. This country should banish it now.
The state of Georgia was wrong to execute convicted murderer Troy Anthon...
DATE: Sep 23, 2011
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WASHINGTON We heard plenty of contradictions, distortions and untruths at the Republican candidates’ tea party debate, but we heard shockingly little compassion and almost no acknowledgment that political and economic policy choices have a moral dime...
DATE: Sep 17, 2011
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Legislation soon to be enacted in Bermuda will provide protection for small depositors, lessening the impact should a local financial institution fail.
The Deposit Insurance Act 2011 (the “Act”) will establish a ‘Deposit Insurance Scheme' (the “Schem...
DATE: Aug 22, 2011
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It’s hard to argue with President Obama’s call for Bashar al-Assad, the bloodthirsty Syrian dictator, to step down. But it’s also hard to discern any logic or consistency in the administration’s handling of the ongoing tumult in the Arab world.
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DATE: Aug 19, 2011
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It’s sobering that three-fourths of Americans, according to a new Washington Post poll, have little or no confidence in our elected leaders to solve the nation’s economic problems. At this point, though, it’s hardly surprising.
If anything, we should...
DATE: Aug 16, 2011
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