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Opinion: Turnout Is the Key for Democrats in 2010

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(Feb. 10) -- As Democrats continue to absorb the shock of Scott Brown's Senate victory in Massachusetts, they do have at least one silver lining to enjoy: advance notice. The question is whether they ...

Opinion: How to Crank Up the Job Creation Engine

21 hours 51 minutes ago |Special to AOL News

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(Feb. 9) -- Responding to President Barack Obama's call to make jobs the nation's No. 1 focus, Congress is poised to pass a jobs bill this month. Swift action on jobs is great news for an economy tha ...

Opinion: Too Many 'Marshall Plans'

1 day 21 hours ago |Special to AOL News

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(Feb. 8) – It has become fashionable in foreign policy circles to call for a "Marshall Plan" to fix Haiti. The Haitian ambassador to the United States penned an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal ...

Opinion: Why Obama Suddenly Took on 'Don't Ask'

4 days 13 hours ago |Special to AOL News

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(Feb. 5) -- While President Barack Obama's decision to move forward with the elimination of the military's much hated "don't ask, Don't tell" policy has attracted widespread coverage, the reason behi ...

Opinion: A Bipartisan Way Forward on Health Care

4 days 13 hours ago |Special to AOL News

(Feb. 5) -- For some, Thursday may have marked the official death of comprehensive health care reform. It was the day Scott Brown was officially sworn in as Massachusetts' Republican senator, killing ...

Opinion: A Better Contest for Super Bowl Sunday

4 days 20 hours ago |AOL News

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(Feb. 5) – Most Americans' TV plans for this Sunday include watching the Super Bowl. We look up to our sports stars and so we build our weekends around this competition. But if you have teens, ...

Opinion: Government Also to Blame for Toyota Mess

5 days 8 hours ago |Special to AOL News

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(Feb. 4) – How can Toyota – the "gold standard" for reliability and quality control – have gotten itself in this massive recall mess for sudden acceleration hazards, crashes and cas ...

Opinion: The Lesson of Toyota's Recall

5 days 11 hours ago |Special to AOL News

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(Feb. 4) – The bad news for Toyota continues to grow. On top of the recall of 4.5 million vehicles, the company Wednesday admitted to a design problem in its 2010 Prius brakes. So what's a Toyo ...

Debate: A Wake-Up Call on Campaign Finance Reform

5 days 11 hours ago |Special to AOL News

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(Feb. 4) -- The Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission turns back the clock on almost a century's worth of campaign finance regulation. The court, under Chief Just ...

Debate: Election Laws Should Protect First Amendment

5 days 11 hours ago |Special to AOL News

(Feb. 4) -- In writing the Constitution, the founders of our country understood that governments often seek to silence their opponents, and they recognized the critical need to prevent this from happ ...

Opinion: The Middle Class Still Has It Pretty Good

6 days 9 hours ago |Special to AOL News

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(Feb. 3) -- In the run-up to the release of his new budget, President Barack Obama painted a dire picture of the middle class. It has, he said, "been under assault for a long time ... barely able to ...

Opinion: Rats and Turtles and Worms, Oh My!

6 days 11 hours ago |Special to AOL News

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(Feb. 3) -- I'll be honest, nothing about this headline made sense to me at first: "Iran Launches Rat, Two Turtles and Worms Into Space." Everything seemed wrong for a moment, like when you drink mil ...