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Congress, Don’t Scrooge the Jobless
With the mid-term elections wrapped up, it’s time for another vote–one that will affect millions of Americans, our economy, and our country.
Bring Back American Manufacturing
The other day, I noticed that my new New Balance running shoes were made in the United States. I was thrilled.
Patriotic Schlunk
To me, the most patriotic day of the year is not the Fourth of July. It’s not Veteran’s Day. Nor is it Thanksgiving. It’s Election Day. That’s when I feel most American.
Simmering Water War
Here in my home state of Texas, we’re suffering from withdrawal pains.
Food Pyramid Scheme
Recession? What Recession?
You may not be familiar with the National Bureau of Economic Research. Who is? Regardless, it’s the official determiner of when we are in a recession and when we are not. Right now, we are not. The Bureau just announced the Great Recession ended clear back in June, 2009. Who knew? I thought unemployment was still around 9.5 percent.
The Lineup: Week of November 8-14, 2010
In this week’s OtherWords editorial package, columnist Donald Kaul marvels at the GOP’s “magical” gains in the midterm elections and FCNL’s Joe Volk urges the Senate to ratify the New START nuclear weapons treaty before the year ends. Get all this and more in your inbox by subscribing to our weekly newsletter. If you haven’t signed up yet, please do.
How about Saving all the Miners?
Remember the joy shared by millions around the world as we watched as the Chilean miners were rescued one by one? Celebrating their survival made me wish that the global mining industry could find itself in the spotlight too, with lights glaring at each aspect of its destructiveness and criminality.
Negotiating with Nutjobs
In the witty 1966 classic cult film King of Hearts, a British soldier shows up in a French village run by lunatics after they’d escaped from the local insane asylum as the German Army retreated. Given the number of electoral victories by crazies in the mid-term elections, President Barack Obama might learn more from watching this movie than listening to all the talking heads in Washington.
Will the Senate Come Together to Make a Safer World?
With the elections over, the Senate’s Republican and Democratic leaders have an opportunity to put their partisan attacks and angry rhetoric behind them. They can demonstrate to the American people that they can come together in the national interest–rather than a political party’s interest–to improve our security by ratifying the New START treaty with Russia.
