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After months of party wrangling that culminated in a Sunday night political spectacle, President Obama has finally managed to push through far-reaching reform to the country’s health care system. The House voted 219-212 for final approval of the legislation, and on Tuesday the President will sign the bill into law.
The new law w [...]
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Health Care Reform-What You Should Kn...
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After months of party wrangling that culminated in a Sunday night political spectacle, President Obama has finally managed to push through far-reaching reform to the country’s health care system. The House voted 219-212 for final approval of the legislation, and on Tuesday the President will sign the bill into law.
The new law w [...]
Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit Adjusts T...
Citigroup CEO adjusts to the "new normal", says economy is on road to recovery (Photo: Smriti Rao)
Ben Bernanke says the recession is over, the DOW swaggers to the top of 10,000 and Obama assures us the worst is behind us. Job numbers released this Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics back them up showing a net job loss for Nove [...]
Afghanistan – Staying The Cours...
West Point Cadets stand for the national anthem before President Obama's speech announcing an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
So, it has been signed, sealed, delivered – America will be sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
Watching President Obama address cadets at West Point as he [...]
Afghanistan – A Foggy Future
Quickly reviewing all major post World War II wars, the New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg asks a series of tough questions he would like the president to answer on Tuesday:
Does it make sense, for example, to spend lives and treasure trying to eradicate “safe havens” in Afghanistan when Al Qaeda has so many other—well, options, from Sudan [...]
Afghanistan: The Post-Thanksgiving Ed...
White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs has given all Americans something to be thankful for: An American military withdrawal from Afghanistan before 2017: “We are in year nine of our efforts in Afghanistan. We are not going to be there another eight or nine years,” Gibbs told reporters.
Gibbs added that the war was “very, very, [...]
Obama To Announce Troop Surge Tuesday
President Obama will announce his latest greatest war plan at West Point on Tuesday night. The man who spoke of having the courage to tell auto makers to reform their ways in Detroit will make his troop escalation speech in front of a crowd professionally obligated to support the decision’s of their Commander in Chief.
Obama assured the [...]
Afghanistan Troop Increase – No...
Data from the U.S Army reveals that the U.S military is desperately short on available troops as it weighs whether or not to escalate in Afghanistan.
The report shows that the U.S currently has 50,600 active military soldiers and 24,000 reservists who are not currently deployed abroad or at home on mandatory rest from their previous deploymen [...]
Funemployed? The Korean American Expe...
Fed chairman Ben Bernanke says the recession is “very likely over,” the Dow swaggers to the top of the 10,000 mark, and Obama is confident the worst is behind us.
So why does it still hurt so bad? If you are one of the millions in America looking for a job in this economy, it’s hard to believe the pundits.
“Employment is a lagging indicator, [...]
Afghanistan: Should I Stay or Should ...
While we hear a lot about Obama needing to heed to General McChrystal’s wishes, since he is Obama’s “hand-picked general”, it turns out another important general has a different perspective.
Retired four-star general Karl Eikenberry, currently serving as U.S Ambassador to Afghanistan, recently sent two private cables t [...]
An Argumentative Indian, Speaks!
Amartya Sen, winner of the Nobel Economics Prize, 1998. Pic Courtesy: Outlook Magazine
‘Tis the Nobel season anyways, and while we are yakking up Obama and his Nobel Peace Prize, here is another winner. Albeit for economics, and from another year. Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998 for his work in welfare economics. [...]