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So it's hard not to like today's unemployment report : the economy only lost 11,000 jobs in November, a number so small the Labor Department considers the employment level "essentially unchanged" from October. That's after shedding an average of 135,000...

Modestly, moderately, jobs. These are the three words that cover just about everything that is going on in America’s political economy. The latest summary prepared by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reports that “economic conditions have generally improved...

It’s official: Barack Obama will attend the Copenhagen climate conference on December 18, the final day of scheduled negotiations. Originally slated only for a brief stopover at the start of the conference, en route to accepting his Nobel Peace Prize...

ONLY two months in office, President Barack Obama unveiled his first strategy on the Afghan war in a speech from the White House on March 27, 2009. He updated his strategy in ten months' time, on December 01, in a...

When it comes to trimming entitlements such as Medicare there is all sorts of talk about the expenses being unsustainable. But when it comes to military adventures this does not really come up. There is all sorts of talk about...

It announced yesterday that Washington's beloved adolescent giant panda, Tai Shan, is leaving his birthplace and being sent to China. Tai Shan, the first surviving giant panda cub born at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, will be sent in January or...

Sen. Max Baucus, one of the most powerful members of Congress and a key figure in the health overhaul debate, recommended his girlfriend to serve as the U.S. attorney for his home state of Montana, a Baucus spokesman said Saturday....

It is rather ironic that Obama should now win the praise of the same neo-con hawks that pushed Bush towards an aggressive imperialist policy. In fact some of these figures were involved in the PNAC (Project for a New American...

One area of town is so heavily mined, Marines refer to it as "no leg alley." Since 2005 several Marines have lost limbs there because of small bombs planted apparently not to kill, but to maim. The principle tactic of...