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| JOHN CRISP: U.S. commodities heading to China |
| 2 weeks ago - Scripps Howard News Service |
| The Chinese are fond of pork. In fact, last week Shuanghui International Holdings, the owner of China’s largest meatpacker, agreed to spend $4.7 billion to purchase Virginia-based Smithfield Foods Inc., the world’s largest pork producer. [Read More] |
| BETSY HART: Where was the GOP when news of IRS scandal broke? |
| 2 weeks ago - Scripps Howard News Service |
| So where were the Republicans on the Internal Revenue Service scandal a year ago? Former Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Karen Finney asked that very question on MSNBC recently. [Read More] |
| COKIE AND STEVEN ROBERTS: Celebrating the art of compromise |
| 2 weeks ago - Newspaper Enterprise Association |
| Compromise is one of the noblest words in the political lexicon. Especially when power is divided between the parties, as it is now, governing a country this vast and diverse is virtually impossible unless lawmakers bring a certain level of trust and flexibility to the bargaining table. [Read More] |
| PAUL KRUGMAN: From the mouths of babes |
| 2 weeks ago - New York Times News Service |
| Like many observers, I usually read reports about political goings-on with a sort of weary cynicism. [Read More] |
| LLEWELLYN KING: To shield or not to shield? |
| 2 weeks ago - Hearst Newspapers |
| The trouble with erecting fences is small boys will find holes in them. So it is with legislating. The common defense of tax avoidance by wealthy people and corporations is: “We did nothing illegal.” [Read More] |
| DAVID BROOKS: The romantic advantage |
| 2 weeks ago - New York Times News Service |
| In the race to be the world’s dominant economy, Americans have at least one clear advantage over the Chinese. [Read More] |
| GENE LYONS: No Big Brother in White House |
| 2 weeks ago - Newspaper Enterprise Association |
| Judging by the caterwauling of many in the national media, you’d think Orwell’s Big Brother had taken over the White House. [Read More] |
| CAL THOMAS: (Dole)ing out blame for gridlock |
| 3 weeks ago - Tribune Media Services |
| Who doesn’t admire former Republican Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole? [Read More] |
| MAUREEN DOWD: President of Scandinavia |
| 3 weeks ago - New York Times News Service |
| Like many others in our business, Jonathan Alter says he is “on fire” about the Justice Department’s snooping on reporters and attempting to criminalize investigative journalism,... [Read More] |
| THOMAS FRIEDMAN: Dramatic changes in getting a job |
| 3 weeks ago - Scripps Howard News Service |
| Underneath the huge drop in demand that drove unemployment up to 9 percent during the recession, there’s been an important shift in the education-to-work model in America. Anyone who’s been looking for a job knows what I mean. [Read More] |







