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  • Obama Targets Human Rights Abuses

    By PHILIP BARBARA, Reuters

    President Barack Obama will issue an order on Monday to allow imposition of sanctions on foreign nationals who use new technologies such as cell-phone tracking and Internet monitoring to help carry...

  • 5 Ways to Turn Obama’s Economic Failures Around

    By Mortimer B Zuckerman, US News and World Report

    Op-Ed: America has long been a country where almost everyone, including the poor and unskilled, could get a job. Given the will to do a reasonable day's work, a job was a passport to economic and...

  • Charles Colson, Watergate Figures, Dies

    By BILL TROTT, Reuters

    Charles Colson, a Richard Nixon White House operative during the Watergate scandal who had a reputation for ruthlessness before going to jail and starting a prison ministry, died on Saturday at age...

  • Will a Price Hike Result from Obama's Oil Plan?

    By DAVID SHEPPARD, Reuters

    Under Obama's request to Congress, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) would determine how much speculators need to pay to trade U.S. crude oil futures, in theory increasing the amount...

  • The Income Gap: A New Look at an Age-Old Problem

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    Noted University of Texas economist James K. Galbraith has written and edited a new book called “Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis,” which says...