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    DEHAVEN: Five decades of failure are enough

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    posted at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9, 2010

    With trillion-dollar deficits as far as the eye can see, policymakers need to scour the federal budget for departments to cut and eliminate. They should start with ones that are not just wasteful, but actively damaging to the economy. Top of the list would be the $60 billion Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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    CROWLEY: Obama's blizzard of confusion

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    posted at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9, 2010

    In the middle of the blizzard that buried Washington last weekend, President Obama left the White House to address the Democratic National Committee (DNC). His motorcade was delayed for a few minutes because one car lost control and slid into one of the press vehicles. On the way back to the White House after Mr. Obama's remarks, a tree branch snapped under the weight of the snow and fell on top of the vehicle that had been hit earlier. What happened in between each mishap wasn't much better.

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    BIRNBAUM: Obama should learn from 'Snowmageddon'

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    posted at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9, 2010

    The massive snowstorm this week in Washington was a good reminder about the value of doing nothing.

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    EDITORIAL: Obama's perpetual campaign mode

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    posted at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9, 2010

    President Obama's promise to usher in a "new kind of politics" is nothing new, and it hasn't changed anything inside the Beltway. During his State of the Union address, Mr. Obama said, "We cannot wage a perpetual campaign," and he made the same point when he criticized House Republicans at their Jan. 28 meeting in Baltimore, but that's exactly what his White House team is doing. It's not working.

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    FORTENBERRY: Protesters are key to halting nuclear designs

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    posted at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9, 2010

    Unless we improve our strategy, the world will awaken very soon to the headline, "Iran has the nuclear bomb."

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    BERES: Concluding the sanctions comedy

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    posted at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9, 2010

    The comedy is finished!

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    EDITORIAL: Fudging jobless statistics

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    posted at 4:51 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9, 2010

    Last week's new unemployment numbers were bittersweet. At the same time the Bureau of Labor Statistics was declaring that the unemployment rate had declined slightly, to 9.7 percent, the government also was announcing that the economy had lost about 824,000 more jobs during the recession from April 2008 to March 2009 than Americans previously had been told. If this sounds like bureaucratic doublespeak, it is.

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    BINLEY: Iran revolution needs support

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    posted at 4:21 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9, 2010

    Iran's nuclear activities - this week ramped up with fresh plans to expand uranium enrichment - and its sponsorship of international terrorism pose an ever-growing threat that must be dealt with by the international community. A year after President Obama took office, his administration talks little of a policy of rapprochement toward Iran, and indeed, he has decided to strengthen the U.S. fleet in the Persian Gulf to counter what he clearly sees as a heightened threat. However, both the European Union and the Americans have wasted much time pursuing a policy of appeasement, which clearly has failed. If we had listened to the right people, we might not have wasted that time.

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    RAHN: Where is the inflation?

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    posted at 4:17 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9, 2010

    Most economists, including yours truly, have been saying that the huge budget deficits the country is running will result in inflation. So, where's the inflation? Inflation normally lags changes in the growth of the money supply by one to two years. The big monetary expansion took place in the last half of 2008. So if the economy follows past trends, one would expect to see growing inflation by the latter part of this year.

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    EDITORIAL: Caged Panther investigation

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    posted at 11:59 a.m. on Tuesday, February 9, 2010

    In their bid to protect President Obama's liberal political appointees at the Justice Department, congressional Democrats are surrendering their responsibility to keep a presidential administration honest.

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    Unless we improve our strategy, the world will awaken very soon to the headline, "Iran has the nuclear bomb."

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