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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]
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