Dalai Lama Says Tibet "Hell on Earth"

March 10, 2009

DHARMSALA — Chinese rule in Tibet has created a “hell on earth” that has caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Tibetans, the Dalai Lama said Tuesday in a speech to mark the 50th anniversary of the failed uprising that sent him into exile.

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Democrats' New Villain: GOP Whip Eric Cantor

March 10, 2009

Forget Rush Limbaugh. For all the focus on the king of conservative talk, Democrats may have found a more important villain in House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, a telegenic young Republican trying to bring life to his party on Capitol Hill. As the Virginia Republican fights President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority on everything […]

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Stein: Buffett Opposes Card Check Legislation

March 10, 2009

Labor leaders and the Obama administration won no favors from Warren Buffett on Monday morning when the famed investor offered unequivocal criticism for the Employee Free Choice Act.

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Levin: Science Over All?

March 10, 2009

In announcing his policy on federal funding of stem cell research, President Obama inadvertently cast a bright light on a dangerous temptation in science policy that ought to give Americans pause.

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Bucs Linebacker Stabbed by Girlfriend

March 10, 2009

TAMPA, Fla. – Authorities say the girlfriend of Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Geno Hayes stabbed him in the head and in the neck.

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Europe Rejects Obama's Global Stimulus Appeal

March 10, 2009

European ministers said on Monday they had no plans to add to recent fiscal stimulus packages despite calls from the US for radical expansions in government action to boost ailing economies. Meeting in Brussels, finance ministers from the countries in the eurozone said they wanted first to see the effect of stimulus packages that had […]

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Buffett: Economy Has "Fallen Off a Cliff"

March 10, 2009

March 9 (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway Inc. posted its worst results ever in 2008, said the economy “has fallen off a cliff” and that efforts to stimulate recovery may lead to inflation higher than the 1970s.

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China Will Never Have Democracy, Says Parliament Chief

March 10, 2009

Parliament chief Wu Bangguo said that China would draw on the achievements of all cultures but would not “simply copy” the West. Communist Party leadership should be strengthened and “the correct political orientation” maintained, he said.

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Cramer Takes on WH, Frank Rich, Jon Stewart

March 10, 2009

Suddenly, bloggers, opinion people, columnists and, yes, pundits who haven’t paid attention to anything I have been saying or writing for the past 18 months are all over me. Suddenly, I find myself in the center of a firestorm over Obama’s economic policies, taking enfilading fire from the “liberal” media (from serious columnist Frank Rich […]

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Coleman v. Franken Well Past Due Date

March 10, 2009

When Minnesota’s Senate recount trial began in January, the state’s lone U.S. Senator, Democrat Amy Klobuchar, made a prediction: either Republican incumbent Norm Coleman or Democratic challenger Al Franken would be seated as Minnesota’s next senator by April 11, the day the ice is expected to melt on Lake Minnetonka, a large lake outside of […]

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