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Carter finds happiness in foreign missions
- Jimmy Carter strides through an impoverished neighborhood of the Dominican town of Dajabon, where cattle mope behind a tangle of barbed wires, where the heat suffocates and the air is thick with mosquitoes.
- Jimmy Carter strides through an impoverished neighborhood of the Dominican town of Dajabon, where cattle mope behind a tangle of barbed wires, where the heat suffocates and the air is thick with mosquitoes.
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Judge OKs winter solstice display at Ark. Capitol
- A secular display celebrating the winter solstice and "freethinkers" such as Albert Einstein and Bill Gates can be placed at the state Capitol alongside a traditional Christian nativity scene, a federal judge said Monday.
Gingrich calls Obama jobs forum 'disappointment'
- Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that restoring America's jobs cannot be done without input from the nation's business interest groups and he criticized the president's forum that focused on the problem.
- Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that restoring America's jobs cannot be done without input from the nation's business interest groups and he criticized the president's forum that focused on the problem.
Meghan Cox Gurdon: Oh, the agony of parenthood
- If, on a sunny day, your small children open a lemonade stand, do you charge them for the lemons pilfered from your kitchen? Of course not? What kind of a scrooge do I take you for?
Timothy Carney: Regulate your way to riches
- Hedge funds, which have steadily increased their presence in Washington over the past year, dove headfirst into the swamp this month, hiring a former congressman as their industry’s top lobbyist. Rep. Richard Baker’s career path — from a subcommittee chairman trying to regulate hedge funds to the highly paid president of the Managed Funds Association — shows how lawmakers benefit themselves by expanding government’s power.
Open letter to Seattle
- Dear Seahawks fans,
Last-minute casting for the right gift
- Uh-oh. It’s crunch time — only a few days left to find that perfect gift for the outdoorsman (or woman) in your life.
Walter E. Williams: Income mobility alive and well in U.S.
- L istening to people like Lou Dobbs, John Edwards and Mike Huckabee lamenting the plight of America’s middle class and poor, you’d have to conclude that things are going to hell in a handbasket. According to them, there’s wage stagnation, while the rich are getting richer and the poor becoming poorer. There are a couple of updates that tell quite a different story.
Who cares that Terps don't graduate?
- Who cares the University of Maryland men’s basketball team was the only squad in the country that didn’t graduate a player within six years of enrolling between 1997 and 2000.
- Who cares the University of Maryland men’s basketball team was the only squad in the country that didn’t graduate a player within six years of enrolling between 1997 and 2000.
Billion-dollar art gift for Presidio
- It was not widely known that Gap Inc. founder Donald Fisher, 78, along with being a major political player and philanthropist, has also partnered with his wife, Doris, to amass one of the world’s largest private collections of contemporary art.
Turf Valley offers veterans, families R&R
- U.S. Army soldier Joshua Hays suffered leg, face and brain injuries in Iraq after an improvised explosive device explosion and vehicle collision in October 2005 and is learning new ways to cope at a retreat with his family.
- U.S. Army soldier Joshua Hays suffered leg, face and brain injuries in Iraq after an improvised explosive device explosion and vehicle collision in October 2005 and is learning new ways to cope at a retreat with his family.
Timothy P. Carney: Sen. Clinton: Big business liberal
- Journalists left and right recently have noted that Mark Penn, the top adviser to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign, continues to work full time as a public relations consultant for corporate giants from the oil, pharmaceutical, software and tobacco industries. Clearly there is something contradictory, these journalists assert, in Penn’s running the campaign of a liberal politician while also laboring in Washington for the biggest companies in the most controversial industries.
Wynn flexes muscle to help others
- There’s nothing like a ragtop on a sunny day.
- There’s nothing like a ragtop on a sunny day.
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