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Opinion: Wisconsin Exposes Deeper State Budget Crisis

Feb 24, 2011 - 5:00 AM |Special to AOL News

In the wake of the recent protests in Wisconsin and now several other states, Americans are taking a much closer look at the grim budget realities facing our states today. Wisconsin Gov. Scott...

Opinion: Why Wisconsin Matters

Feb 24, 2011 - 5:00 AM |AOL News

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If you want to know what is the most important issue affecting American workers today, look no further than Wisconsin. What is happening there is ground zero in the ongoing decimation of organized...

Opinion: Will Egypt's Revolution Be in Vain?

Feb 24, 2011 - 5:00 AM |Special to AOL News

In my native Egypt, my eyes were covered, my clothes ripped off. I was anchored in a dark room reciting Koranic verses to myself with a tone of desperation. That was when I had consciousness, because...

Opinion: GOP Budget Cuts Will Cost Us in the Long Run

Feb 23, 2011 - 5:00 AM |Special to AOL News

If human capital is the wealth of nations, the House GOP's proposed federal budget will leave us poorer. Economists know that what separates wealthy and poor countries is not simply their natural...

Opinion: Who Has the Courage to Lead on Spending Cuts?

Feb 23, 2011 - 5:00 AM |Special to AOL News

Last week's release of President Barack Obama's budget left many Americans scratching their heads. They'd made clear their demands for a dramatic change in Washington's overspending ways; they'd also...

Opinion: Wisconsin Election Recall Reality Check

Feb 23, 2011 - 5:00 AM |Special to AOL News

With Wisconsin's new role as ground zero in the national political battlefield, thanks to Gov. Scott Walker's battle with public-sector unions on collective bargaining, both sides are looking to...

Opinion: The US Isn't Powerless In Libya

Feb 22, 2011 - 1:01 PM |AOL News

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Moammar Gadhafi refuses to go down without a fight -- killing hundreds of civilians through indiscriminate firing from airplanes and helicopter gunships and by foreign mercenaries. In a vintage,...

Opinion: Was George Washington a Christian?

Feb 22, 2011 - 8:31 AM |Special to AOL News

Today, 279 years ago, George Washington was born. Over the course of the past year, I have spent a considerable amount of time thinking about Washington for my book on Christianity and the founding...

Opinion: Docs Need to Get with the Internet Program

Feb 22, 2011 - 5:00 AM |Special to AOL News

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If you woke up one day with an earache, you could call your doctor's office for help. Or you could do what the majority of patients do today and Google what to do first. Type "earache" into your Web...

Opinion: Is Obama's Economic Conversion for Real?

Feb 22, 2011 - 5:00 AM |Special to AOL News

After receiving a self-described shellacking in the mid-term elections and seeing the loyal opposition party take control of the House, President Barack Obama has made an apparent right turn on jobs,...

Opinion: A Healthy Crisis at a UN-Backed Health Fund

Feb 21, 2011 - 5:00 AM |Special to AOL News

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The UN-backed effort to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria is in trouble. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. Recently it came to light that the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and...

Opinion: The Jobs and Health Care Connection

Feb 21, 2011 - 5:00 AM |Special to AOL News

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Maybe I'm a little slow on the uptake, but I finally just got what is bankrupting this country. It came to me when I was getting ready for bed and glanced over at my balled-up pair of arthritis...