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President Barack Obama often induces comparison to Abraham Lincoln. However, his recent announcement of a budget schedule that slices the deficit by one-half aligns him with a less celebrated commander-in-chief: Herbert Hoover. Hoover, the man whose infamous attempt to balance the budget in the face of skyrocketing...

Author: By Malcolm-wiley T. Floyd | Title: DISSENT: Obama, Hoover, Maynard Keynes? | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

In our consumer-driven culture, we define relationships with materialist symbols: saccharine cards on Valentine’s Day, long-stemmed roses on anniversaries, and diamond rings at engagements all serve as measures of our devotion to monogamy. However, with social-networking sites such as Facebook commanding an average of...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: Relationship Status on Facebook: | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

It has become clear that there's a bit of an obsession with process in the Obama Administration as well, but this is a necessary corrective. Rather than making peremptory judgments, pro and con, about foreign leaders, as Bush did, Obama seems predisposed to see every foreign policy problem in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Quiet American: How the World Sees Obama | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

A budget process dependent on political suicide is not a good system. The other alternative is for the Republican Party to stand firm on its no-tax pledge and solve the crisis by only cuts and shutdowns. George Skelton of the Los Angeles Times recently pointed out that the no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: One Vote Short of Averting Catastrophe | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

Another of Obama's Zanesville promises will pose an enormous bureaucratic challenge to his faith-based operation. "We will also ensure that taxpayer dollars only go to those programs that actually work," he vowed in July. It was a pledge Bush made as well in the early days of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Tries to Renew Faith in a Faith-Based Office | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

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