March 23, 2011 – carolinajournal.com Carolina Journal Exclusive VIDEO: Pantano Gets Early Start on 2012 Campaign By Anthony Greco RALEIGH — Ilario Pantano is not taking any downtime after his narrow loss to U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre, D-7th. Pantano filed campaign paperwork with the Federal Election Commission. He said he decided to keep his campaign […]
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MARCH 22, 2011 By DAMIAN PALETTA CAGUAS, Puerto Rico—This mountainside town is home to a picturesque cathedral, a tobacco museum and a Wal-Mart Supercenter. Another defining feature: Caguas’s 00725 zip code has more people who receive a disability check than any other in the U.S. Puerto Rico has emerged in recent years as one of
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March 21, 2011 By J.R. Dunn Sometimes the biggest victories are the ones that make the least noise. Lost amid all the excitement over the Rio trip, the anti-obesity campaign, and the March Madness picks was the revelation that Senate Democrats had given up any attempt to confirm Donald Berwick as chief of Centers for
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MARCH 21, 2011 Why Obama Went to Brazil There’s a chance to build a new foreign policy alliance that disdains dictators like Hugo Chávez. By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY President Obama’s trip to Brazil, Chile and El Salvador this week, while war rages in Libya, has been sharply criticized as proof of dangerous detachment from a
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MARCH 19, 2011 Into the time machine to see how a major company coped with its black swans By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR. The following memo was unearthed as part of the litigation, now entering its 50th year, over the Great Japan Nuclear Incident of 2011. Addressed to General Electric’s then-CEO Jeff Immelt, the memo
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MARCH 19, 2011 Hedge-fund manager Paul Singer recognized the risks of subprime mortgages and bet against them. Now he warns that monetary policy could cripple American banks again. By JAMES FREEMAN At the height of the housing bubble, hedge-fund manager Paul Singer was shorting subprime mortgages. By the spring of 2007, he was warning regulators
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Charles Krauthammer: It’s still an empty lockbox By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER 2011-03-17 Last week, President Obama’s budget chief, Jack Lew, took to his White House blog to repeat his claim that the Social Security trust fund is solvent through 2037; and to chide me for suggesting otherwise. I had argued in my last column that the
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March 17, 2011 By F. Owen Smith America has become dependent on social steroids, the kind pushed under the street-name HGH, standing for Huge Government Handouts. The steroid metaphor is so aptly drawn as to make it irresistible, so with your permission I’ll develop it. Hold a photograph of the Twenties strongman Charles Atlas next
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CFR: Tea Party Dangerous, Obstructive | Print | Written by Bob Adelmann Wednesday, 09 March 2011 17:15 0 When the internationalist-minded Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) decided it was time to take a hard look at the growing influence of the Tea Party movement in America, it selected “one of the country’s leading students of American foreign
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Posted by Asst Natl Dir Mellie B on March 8, 2011 at 4:56pm in Patriot Action Alerts View Discussions Posted on March 8, 2011 at 3:04pm by Jonathon M. Seidl Our friends over at Business Insider have uncovered the chilling presentation GOP Rep. Paul Ryan (chairman of the House Budget Committee) is using to push for budget
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