White House apologists were quick to point to the unemployment rate decline from 10 percent to 9.7 percent as evidence that the recovery is gathering momentum and that President Obama's policies are "working." But the back story behind the figures provides cold comfort.
In the name of fiscal responsibility, President Obama is promising a spending freeze–at the record-high spending level he reached in 2009. This is like an alcoholic promising to “freeze” his drinking at 20 beers a night.
As literary feuds go it has the all the hallmarks of a classic. In one corner, the journalist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens. In the other, America's great man of letters, Gore Vidal.
The Saturday night keynote speech from Sarah Palin at the Tea Party National Convention in Nashville was by far the mildest, most moderate address of the entire two-day conference.
The study followed over 60,000 people for a period of 14 years and concluded what everyone with common sense knows: poisoning yourself will make you sick.
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