Al Franken Didn't Steal Minnesota From Norm Coleman, GOP Gave it Away

April 9, 2009

Power Line’s Scott Johnson argues that GOP lawyers lost Norm Coleman’s Senate seat: “Coleman should not have agreed to the inclusion of a single one of these ballots until he secured some agreement on the uniform treatment of absentee ballots…the Minnesota Supreme Court handed Coleman the key to the election. He promptly threw it away.”

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Nearly 1 of 2 New Americans in 2008 was Latino

April 9, 2009

New NALEO study says: “Hispanics made up nearly half of the more than 1 million people who became U.S. citizens last year.” That’s a more than 58 percent increase from 2007, and illustrates the continued sea change in America’s demographic makeup — changes which are continuing unabated through the economic downturn, with few exceptions.

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Somali Pirates Seize Emergency Aid Ship, 20 U.S. Sailors

April 8, 2009

NAIROBI, Kenya – Somali pirates on Wednesday hijacked a U.S.-flagged cargo ship with 20 American crew members onboard, according to the shipping company. The 17,000-ton Maersk Alabama was carrying emergency relief to Mombasa, Kenya, at the time it was hijacked, said Peter Beck-Bang, spokesman for the Copenhagen-based container shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk.

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SecDef Gates: Why I Tore Up the Army's "Future"

April 8, 2009

Of all the hard choices Defense Secretary Robert Gates had to make in his radical overhaul of the Pentagon’s arsenal, the toughest, he tells Danger Room, was the decision to gut Future Combat Systems, the Army’s $200 billion effort to design a fleet of next-generation tanks and troop carriers. For nearly a decade, the Army […]

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Lowered Expectations: OPEC Resigned to $50 Oil

April 8, 2009

LONDON (Reuters) – OPEC’s lowered price ambitions mean the oil producers’ club is unlikely to meet promises to improve output discipline and the chances of a production cut when it meets next month are slim. So far the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has delivered roughly 80 percent of its pledge to decrease output […]

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Minnesota's Shame: Recount Disenfranchises Military Voters

April 8, 2009

In its recent order, the three-judge election contest court in Minnesota reiterated a common theme during the Coleman versus Franken Senate recount–notwithstanding the numerous questions raised regarding the fairness of the election, “Citizens of Minnesota should be proud of their electoral system, a system which has one of the highest voter-participation rates in the country.” […]

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Donnelly and Schmitt: Obama and Gates Gut Key Military Programs

April 8, 2009

On Monday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced a significant reordering of U.S. defense programs. His recommendations should not go unchallenged. In the 1990s, defense cuts helped pay for increased domestic spending, and that is true today. Though Mr. Gates said that his decisions were “almost exclusively influenced by factors other than simply finding a way […]

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Ten Things You Should Buy Before the Economy Improves

April 8, 2009

Sadly, someday this recession is going to end. After 17 months of steep decline, both the president’s Council of Economic Advisors and the Federal Reserve now believe the economy will begin to recover sometime in 2009.

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Boston Globe Staffers Lash Out at Union Leaders

April 8, 2009

Rank-and-file Boston Globe staffers are rising up against their union leaders, accusing them of keeping members in the dark over last week’s stunning ultimatum from the New York Times [NYT] Co. and questioning whether they’re putting their own interests first. “There may be a reason why it had to come to a threat and it […]

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Can the IMF Really Save the World Economy?

April 8, 2009

Last week’s G-20 heads of state meeting took place against the backdrop of the worst global economic crisis in the postwar period. Yet judging by that meeting’s meager results—largely limited to an increase in the size of the International Monetary Fund—one could be excused for thinking that the G-20 must believe that whatever might presently […]

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