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For almost 150 years Americans have believed that anyone born here, whatever his or her origins, can be a good citizen. There is no reason to believe the children of illegal immigrants are any different.

Barack Obama has a strange aversion to confrontational politics -- strange because he was schooled in it, working as a community organizer in the 1980s, under the tutelage of activists who subscribed to teachings of the radical Saul Alinsky. But, when Obama departed for Harvard Law School in 1988, he left Alinsky and adversarial tactics behind.

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Certain industries figure prominently on this list of layoff kings. The auto industry, for example, is estimated to have cut nearly 200,000 jobs in the U.S. since 2006. The financial services sector is another culprit. Companies that turn commodities into finished products, such as Alcoa, DuPont and Dow Chemical, have felt the pressure of shrinking

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged the state of New Jersey with securities fraud for failing to tell bond investors it was underfunding its pension funds, the commission said today.

Conspiracy theorizing has flourished as a virtual art form in all nations and across all political persuasions. But the American radical right has to be considered a strong contender for the title of modern conspiracy champion. A vast body of academic literature exists exploring this history...

Maybe this explains stubbornly high unemployment.

Those sharks with laser beams tied to their heads may be a bit to expensive

850,000 arrests a year. $340 billion in lost tax revenue.$14 billion on the drug war. The real cost of keeping marijuanaillegal in America.

On August 15, new overdraft rules went into effect, preventing banks from imposing overdraft fees on debit and ATM card transactions unless the customer actively opts in to have that feature.

Voters think, by a margin of 51 percent to 43 percent, that it is more important to have a Republican majority in the next Congress to act as a check on President Obama's policies, rather than a Democratic majority to support him. Unless Obama can turn that psychology around, the Democrats could well be on their way to another 1994-style defeat.

Apparently, the Family Values Party is not concerned with the strip clubs (like New York Dolls) that surround hallowed ground (after all, we all know that Hooters is a family restaurant and Fox News is not conservative day time porn), because nothing says Christian Values and Apple Pie like a strip club.

Here's a look at the United States' credit rating compared to other nations that rank in the top 20.

The case against Park 51 necessarily asserts that all Muslims are responsible for 9/11.

Economic anxiety tends to bubble up in three related forms: isolationism, protectionism and anti-immigration sentiment. The question is which leaders in both political parties will push back against them.

Fox News pundits decry Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who's sponsoring a mosque in lower Manhattan, as a threat to America. But for Fox's parent News Corp., doing billions of dollars in investment deals with a nephew of Saudi Arabia's king is just business as usual. And it shows how much more nuanced it is to run a multinational media giant today.

Is the federal stimulus wasteful? You might think so, given all the misinformation and "sky-is-falling" hysteria surrounding it. But one thing seems indisputable: Government is stimulating economic growth and helping people in need.

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