Wall Street Tumbles as Stress Tests Loom, Investors Dump Financials

April 20, 2009

NEW YORK – Investors are back to worrying about banks. Long-present unease about soured loans bubbled over on Monday after Bank of America Corp. said it set aside $13.4 billion to cover lending losses, even as it posted a profit for the first quarter, and as anxiety grew about the results of the government’s “stress […]

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Crook: In Search of an Obama Doctrine

April 20, 2009

Who can fail to be impressed by Barack Obama’s energy, or a little stunned by his self-confidence? Show this man a financial crisis, sufficient to occupy or overwhelm an ordinary president, and he sees the chance to “remake” – as he puts it – the entire US economy. You might dismiss that as rhetorical exuberance, […]

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Waterboarding Used More Often Than Previously Admitted: 266 Times on Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

April 20, 2009

As the Obama administration seeks to move beyond past interrogation tactics such as ‘waterboarding,” that near-drowning tactic authorized by the Bush administration but banned by the new White House, it appears that there is a lot of history to get past.

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Wiretap Recorded Rep. Harman Promising to Intervene for AIPAC

April 20, 2009

Rep. Jane Harman , the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues, was overheard on an NSA wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, the most powerful pro-Israel organization in Washington.

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Barone: Obama's Foreign Policy Goes Back to the Future

April 20, 2009

As Barack Obama finishes up his second major foreign tour, a pattern in his approach to foreign policy seems to be emerging. On pressing matters of obvious importance, he has made responsible decisions that have not been far out of line with the policies of his predecessor and current necessities.

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Samuelson: Our Unhealthy Depression Obsession

April 20, 2009

WASHINGTON — The Great Depression of the 1930s was the most momentous economic event of the 20th century. It was a proximate cause of World War II, having fed the Nazis’ rise in Germany. It inspired a new American welfare system as a response to mass misery. Everywhere, it discredited unsupervised capitalism. Given today’s economic […]

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Kolbert: Earth Day Just Ain't What it Used to Be

April 20, 2009

The first celebration of Earth Day, on April 22, 1970, was a raucously exuberant affair. In New York, Fifth Avenue was closed to traffic. People picnicked on the sidewalk; dead fish were dragged through midtown; and Governor Nelson Rockefeller rode a bicycle across Prospect Park. Students in Richmond, Virginia, handed out bags of dirt (to […]

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A Blast, an Ambush and a Sprint Out of a Taliban Kill Zone

April 20, 2009

ALIABAD, Afghanistan — The two Army lieutenants crouched against boulders beside the Korangal River. Taliban gunfire poured down from villages and cliffs above, hitting tree branches and rocks and snapping as the bullets passed over the officers’ helmets.

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Spitzer Used Daughters, Fluffy Dogs to Win Back MSM's Heart (It's Not That Hard)

April 20, 2009

In Jonathan Darman’s titillatingly good Newsweek profile of Eliot Spitzer, we learn that the disgraced ex-governor has no plans to run for his old public offices again, doesn’t want to admit whether he went to therapy, and always knew what he was doing wrong when he paid prostitutes for sex behind his wife’s back.

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Sounding Like a Gov Contender, Giuliani Rips Patterson's Bid for Same Sex Marriage

April 20, 2009

The former mayor, in an extended interview with The Post, also predicted that Gov. Paterson’s high-profile effort to legalize gay marriage would anger many New Yorkers and spark a revolt that could help sweep Republicans into office in 2010. “This will create a grass-roots movement. This is the kind of issue that, in many ways, […]

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