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...single most pressing fiscal challenge we face, by far.” Obama is an intelligent man and a gifted leader, but accomplishing all of this spending while slashing the budget deficit without sending taxes through the roof will take a rather large feat of magic, not just determination and fiscal responsibility. Obama’s pledge points to either higher taxes down the road,or to broken promises. Higher taxes during recessions only exacerbate the pain felt by Americans and slow down recovery. The alternative, running a large deficit, is surely better than remaining in an economic downturn...
...part of his transition strategy, President Barack Obama introduced a web feature meant to symbolize his commitment to expanding the national conversation through the magic of Hope and Change. The feature, a component of the change.gov transition site called the “Citizen’s Briefing Book,” ultimately revealed that the “expertise and insight” that a large component of his web audience wished to share with the incoming president in this moment of crisis related to the need to legalize marijuana. Perhaps Obama overestimated the American public?...
...good ones. Also, the video offers us a sneak peek at her new movie, “Hannah Montana: The Movie.” Yay! Enough pre-teen enthusiasm already. “See You Again” may have been inexplicably catchy, but it seems the Miley magic couldn’t stretch to a second song. The hideously extended metaphor of mountain climbing as spiritual growth that runs throughout “The Climb” sits very oddly with the clips from the new movie. These show Miley doing normal teenage things like riding a horse, driving...
...what is the magic formula? How does the White House buy time to spend now without spooking the markets or stoking fears that the U.S. intends to inflate its way out of debt? Obama's aides say they can do that by winding down the war in Iraq, cutting fat and raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans--and, later, by entitlement reform. All during the campaign, Obama talked about going through the budget "line by line," zeroing out programs that don't work or have outlived their usefulness. Even as he signed the stimulus bill, he had already pivoted...
...countries, primarily in the eastern Mediterranean. Some of the objects are simply stunning - such as a curved ivory wand from Mesopotamia, whose delicately chiseled engravings, still intact after 4,000 years, were meant to ward off evil spirits from harming an infant. But there's a larger magic at work: seen through the display's myriad vessels, statues, seals and pendants, the cultures of antiquity take shape in a world system threaded together by commerce and collaboration. Cretan fish motifs adorn the frescoes from a Syrian nobleman's house hundreds of miles away from the sea. Recovered relics from...