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Washington Post: KABUL - Gen. David H. Petraeus, the coalition military commander in Afghanistan, warned Afghan officials Sunday that President Hamid Karzai's latest public criticism of U.S. strategy threatens to seriously undermine progress in the war and risks making Petraeus's own position "untenable," according to Afghan and U.S. officials. Officials said Petraeus expressed "astonishment and disappointment" with ...
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The Hill: President Obama and labor unions are entering a new and difficult stretch in their relationship as the White House looks to find common ground with Republicans on issues like trade and the deficit. Unions praised Obama this week for insisting that talks continue on a free trade agreement with South Korea after negotiators failed to ...
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The Guardian: The UK government is poised to start measuring people's psychological and environmental wellbeing, bidding to be among the first countries to officially monitor happiness. Despite "nervousness" in Downing Street at the prospect of testing the national mood amid deep cuts and last week's riot in Westminster, the Office of National Statistics will shortly be asked ...
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The Hill: House Republican Leader John Boehner told members of the incoming GOP class Sunday that the No. 1 goal for House Republicans over the next two years is to end the federal government’s “spending binge” and “job-killing policies.” Boehner, who will become the new Speaker in the next Congress, told Republicans they may spend the “entire ...
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Photo for newsworthy illustrative purposes only, not actual photo of what Obama would look like if he were a naked blonde chick being irritated by small rocks and grit while former Democrat presidential advisers were telling him not to seek re-election in 2012 Washington Post: President Obama must decide now how he wants to govern in the ...
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Fox News: Baby boomers withdrawing funds from Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are going to "crush the system" in a matter of years, a member of President Obama's blue-ribbon commission on the debt warned Sunday. David Cote, CEO of Honeywell and one of a handful of private-sector chiefs appointed to the 18-member fiscal reform commission issuing ...
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USA Today: President Obama talks this week with Republicans about extending the George W. Bush tax cuts for wealthy Americans, and White House adviser David Axelrod began laying down some markers on the Sunday talk shows. Axelrod said Obama opposes the "permanent" extension of those tax cuts for individuals making more than $200,000 a year, and couples ...
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