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...says Raymond Baker, executive director of Global Financial Integrity, the capital-flight argument is similar to the businesses' objection to the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which outlawed overseas bribery. U.S. businesses would be at a competitive disadvantage, it was warned. Over time, though, America's example set a new global standard. Argues Baker: "There would be no net loss to the U.S. economy by eliminating secrecy. On the contrary, the more we can do to make the U.S. economy transparent, the more we can strengthen [it], and the more we will attract money from overseas...
...plans for how that money should be spent. And though Bolden filled his prepared remarks with all the usual promises to "blaze a new trail," answer a "bold challenge," "spur innovation" and, of course, inspire young people, the fact of the matter is that the new plans will keep America on the ground for most of the next decade or longer. And whenever U.S. astronauts finally do return to space, they won't be going very far. (See the 40th anniversary of the moon landing...
...establish a Shari'a state on American soil. The two had nothing in common other than being Muslims. And yet with the release Monday, Feb. 1, of Abdullah's autopsy, their cases continue to haunt one of metropolitan Detroit's few successful communities. The immigrants who have made this America's largest Muslim community now fear they may face the scrutiny they endured for years post-9/11. (See pictures of Detroit's beautiful, horrible decline...
...Congressional observers like Ornstein believe that the GOP has to do more to emphasize the positive and - in the tradition of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who won the House for Republicans in a surprise wave in 1994 - introduce some version of a new Contract with America. "The approach [to oppose Obama's agenda] was clearly set by the leaders to try to jump-start a moribund and dispirited party, and with the idea that if they could do what their Gingrich-led predecessors did in 1993-94, they could return to majority status on the back of a failed...
...divided GOP will fail. Before they get to next November almost all of their candidates, and some incumbents, will have to win primaries in a landscape transformed by the tea-party movement. And there's a fine line with swing voters between being perceived as saving America from Obama's supposedly socialist agenda and blocking job-saving and - in the case of health care - life-saving legislation for the sake of pure politics...