He said having other alternatives to the dollar “would limit the extent to which the international monetary system as a whole depends on the policies and conditions of a single, albeit dominant, country.”

The thrust of the legal arguments in the case is over how the Supreme Court might apply the Second Amendment to states and cities.

Obama is like some hideously unappealing holiday gift you anonymously receive, but can’t figure out from where it came to return it. So maybe we can just wrap him up in red plastic paper with a big “Green” bow for Christmas 2012 and send him to Russia to act as Putin’s second-banana-flunky—until the Russian neutron dwarf president is ready to retire?

When early reports predicted the cybersecurity measure would allow the president to “declare a cybersecurity emergency,” online privacy groups said they felt that would endow the White House with overly ambiguous and far-reaching powers to regulate the Internet.

The Washington-based company posted a $15.2 billion fourth-quarter loss and said it asked the U.S. Treasury for another $15.3 billion to stay afloat, bringing its total bailout tab past $76 billion.

Fund Management, warned in a newspaper article that the euro could ‘fall apart’ even if the European Union can agree a deal to shore up support for stricken Greece.

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According to Wired Magazine Online, the U.S. military monitored Planned Parenthood and a white supremacist group as part of of 2002 Winter Olympics. Isn’t it illegal for the military to conduct operations against U.S. citizens in the U.S?

In the aftermath of the White House “Gate-crasher” scandal and the elevated status in which Rogers clothed her “Comme des Garcons” self, she became an unwanted distraction — and it was emanating from first lady Michelle Obama’s East Wing.

The president has entered a boorish phase. This is not a good sign for his program, but tells us something about his likely next step.

Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government’s become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens.

The Obama administration, she noted, had “ordered a redirection of our aid so that we produce results that are in line with the needs and aspirations of the Pakistani people”.

My plan focuses on couples earning above $50k and below $250k who are married and have at least one child under the age of 18 living at home.

On the one hand, many of the outstanding job vacancies are due to a lack of skilled workers as segments of China’s export industry crawl up the value chain;

Throughout all this, Obama, looking incongruously glamorous in a crisp white shirt and blue tie — like Jamie Foxx chairing a convention of Pittsburgh cement contractors — gave an Oscar-worthy performance as the Concerned Listener

The collapse of the deal represents another setback for GM, which had been working to shed unprofitable brands and focus on its four core brands – Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC – after emerging from bankruptcy in July.