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Opinion: Reconciliation Isn't Health Reform Answer

4 hours 20 minutes ago |Special to AOL News

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(March 10) -- The Democrats' plan to pass health care reform using the so-called "reconciliation" process is at odds with both congressional intent and the history of this budgetary practice. And bef ...

Opinion: Color-Blind Solutions Aren't Enough

8 hours 30 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 10) -- Although many in this country are floundering, it would be disingenuous to argue that we're all doing so at the same rate. When it comes to the largest economic decline in more than hal ...

Opinion: Washington Bipartisan-Speak Decoded

15 hours 50 minutes ago |Special to AOL News

(March 10) -- Most Americans believe that any bipartisan movement in our government has been scuttled by the two parties. And most of us are right. Most of us also believe that one party is responsib ...

Opinion: Closing the $1.3 Trillion State Pension Gap

1 day 5 hours ago |Special to AOL News

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(March 9) -- Earlier this week, The New York Times documented how state pension plans are putting more money in riskier investments while private companies are moving their pensions to safer climes. ...

Opinion: Is GOP Too Tough on the Unemployed?

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(March 9) -- Writer Michael Kinsley once defined a "gaffe" in Washington as when a politician accidentally tells the truth. By that definition, Republicans have been particularly gaffe prone when it ...

Opinion: It's Still George Bush's World

5 days 6 hours ago |AOL News

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(March 5) -- This week's parliamentary election in Iraq -- the second since the fall of Saddam Hussein -- was the latest sign that America's ill-fated intervention in Iraq reached a critical turning ...

Opinion: The Kind of Leader the TSA Really Needs

2 days 7 hours ago |AOL News

(March 8) -- President Barack Obama named retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert Harding as the new head of the Transportation Security Administration, the federal agency whose job it is to make air travel un ...

Debate: On the Right Nuclear Weapons Track

2 days 16 hours ago |Special to AOL News

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(March 8) -- President Barack Obama has resumed a vital post-Cold War chore interrupted by his predecessor -- reducing America's nuclear arsenal. The White House reportedly is putting the final touch ...

Debate: Waiting for Obama's Policy on Nukes

2 days 16 hours ago |Special to AOL News

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(March 8) -- To defense experts, "NPR" stands not for "National Public Radio" but for the "Nuclear Posture Review" -- the reassessment of nuclear weapons policy U.S. presidents customarily undertake ...

Opinion: Why Vets Aren't Buying 'The Hurt Locker'

4 days 8 hours ago |Special to AOL News

(March 6) -- There's been a lot of chatter in the past few days about why so many Iraq war veterans have disparaged "The Hurt Locker," the Iraq war movie in heavy contention for the Best Picture Osca ...

Opinion: In a Broadband World, Weather Shouldn't Matter

5 days 13 hours ago |Special to AOL News

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(March 5) -- Over the past two days, economists have discounted a flurry of economic news -- including Friday's jobless report that saw 36,000 jobs shed in February -- as the result of unexpected sno ...

Readers React: Reagan on the $50 Bill

6 days 5 hours ago |AOL News

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(March 4) -- This week, Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., introduced legislation to swap President Ulysses S. Grant for President Ronald Reagan on the $50 bill, saying that "every generation needs its ow ...