At the moment President Barack Obama strode to the podium in Arlington, Va., on Wednesday, fifth-graders watching from M. Agnes Jones Elementary School in Atlanta clapped their hands and cheered with glee. The indoctrination was about to begin. Actually, it ...

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Curbing medical malpractice lawsuits is a leading goal of business groups and Republicans, and President Barack Obama on Wednesday night during a joint session of Congress said he is pursuing a pilot project designed to prevent doctors from practicing "defensive medicine" by ordering unnecessary tests for fear of being sued.

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You know the U.S. Postal Service is inefficient when President Barack Obama takes a jab. After all, the president is a guy who apparently thinks there is little that government cannot do. Can government restructure the entire health care system? ...

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President Barack Obama and Democratic congressional leaders, unable to reach a deal with Republicans in health care, are considering alternatives to a bipartisan bill, Sen. Charles Schumer said. Schumer, speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday, said Obama and Democratic ...

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Daniel Bogden, who was fired as U.S. attorney in Nevada during the Bush administration, was nominated by President Barack Obama to return to the same position. Bogden held the job from 2001 to 2007 and is now a partner in ...

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President Barack Obama should have stopped himself from wading in when asked at his press conference last week about the arrest of his friend, Harvard University scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. Admitting he was short on facts, Obama plunged ahead. ...

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Last week our president seemed like he was promoting a big new movie or something. I mean, is he appearing on “The View” anytime soon? I love ol’ Barack, but I wonder if his get-out-the-vote tactics are really going to ...

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Just after 2 p.m. one October day in 1948 a B-29 bomber with an engine on fire lost a wing, whirled into a spin and crashed to the ground in southern Georgia, throwing nine men to their deaths. The “most ...

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Financial crises have a way of jolting investors into seeing that perhaps their brokers weren’t such trustworthy advisers after all. Requests for arbitration hearings are up 85 percent so far this year at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the only ...

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In a mid-life avocation Bob Wamhoff has found a way of giving back to others. With wife Diane, the St. Charles businessman co-founded Just Because We Care, a non-profit charity that supports impoverished schoolchildren in a Honduran village. The Wamhoffs ...

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Last Thursday my president offered another eloquent speech that directly confronted the issues facing us in a refreshing and inspiring way. He “spoke to the Muslim world,” as more than a dozen TV talking heads and newspaper leads said over ...

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