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In Honor Of Mitt Romneys Jobs Plan

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has unveiled a "Jobs Plan." CAF's Bill Scher celebrates with his post, Romney "Jobs" Plan Latest Attempt To Copy Bush, The Worst Jobs President Since Hoover, Funny that Romney's lesson-learning stops at 2009, and skips...

Gingrichs Sly Strategy Run Clinton Against Bush

Democrats are salivating -- or as Rachel Maddow put it -- cheering, screaming, crying -- at the prospect of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich becoming the Republican presidential nominee. And why not? Gingrich, conservative George Will writes, "embodies the vanity...

How To Create 5 Million Jobs In Two Years

Congress could this week enact legislation, if it chose to, that would create more than 5 million jobs in the economy over the next two years. That works out to more than 208,000 jobs a month, well above the average of 132,000 jobs a month that have been created over...

The Forgotten Leading Actor In The American Dream Story

When Newt Gingrich maligned our "truly stupid" child labor laws and suggested that children 14 and under be put to work cleaning their schools, he sparked the outrage the former House speaker relishes. Less attention was paid to the other casualty of his proposition:...

On Wall Street Still Tis the Season to Be Jolly

Financial industry insiders are grousing about a big downturn in annual bonuses. They should be thanking the rest of us — bombshell new research shows — for their continuing awesome good tidings. Wall Street’s power suits aren’t humming along, this December, with all...

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