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AMERICA’S first chamber of commerce was founded in Charleston in 1773, but it was not until April 22nd 1912 that business found a national voice. At the urging of President William Howard Taft, the Chamber of Commerce of the USA was established by a gathering of 700 delegates from 44 states, repre .. submitted 05/21/12

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OAKSTERDAM university, a self-proclaimed “cannabis college” in Oakland, California, has been called everything from “the Princeton of Pot” to “the Harvard of Hemp”. Its founder, Richard Lee, has become the public face of the movement to legitimise marijuana. A paraplegic, he uses the dru .. submitted 05/21/12

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The rate of sexual assaults on American women serving in the military remains intolerably high. While an estimated 17 percent of women in the general population become victims at some point in their lives, a 2006 study of female veterans financed by the Department of Veterans Affairs estimated that .. submitted 05/21/12

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The housing market has shown signs of life recently. Home sales have beat expectations and pending sales neared a two-year high. But prices — the crucial measure of housing-market health — are still falling, driven down by increasing levels of distressed sales of foreclosed properties. That mean .. submitted 05/21/12

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President Obama has made a compelling case for his policy of diplomacy backed by military might. submitted 05/21/12

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Mitt Romney recently argued that campaign rival Rick Santorum was responsible for ObamaCare because the former Pennsylvania Senator had, years before its passage, supported Arlen Specter, his homestate colleague and one of the 60 Senators who later voted for the bill. Mr. Romney's Massachusetts crea .. submitted 05/21/12

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The Wall Street Journal critiques President Obama's Forrest Gump analysis of rising gas prices. submitted 05/21/12

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President Obama speaks about urging Congress to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance during an event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House. (Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Images / February 14, 2012)February .. submitted 05/21/12

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The system for reviewing presidential appointments is broken. The Senate has a constitutional duty to provide advice and consent on the naming of judges and high-ranking executive branch officials. But the process has been hijacked by cynical partisanship and cheap tricks. This is not a new .. submitted 05/21/12

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IN THE 1939 classic Western “Stagecoach”, a villainous banker with a bag of embezzled cash in his lap frets about the state of the American economy: “Our national debt is something shocking!” he complains. That year American public debt was just over two-fifths of GDP. This year, the IMF rec .. submitted 05/21/12

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During yesterday's market meltdown, an old friend shot us an email: "The Obama adm needs to stop trying to disarm the fire alarm and start trying to put the fire out." Good advice that, not that President Obama followed it during his midday remarks at the White House. Instead, he poured on some lig .. submitted 05/21/12

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The House has been frittering away precious time on ideological games, forcing Congress to miss its Friday deadline for an agreement on raising the debt ceiling. Fortunately, there are signs of adulthood in Washington’s sandbox, and it remains possible that a deal could be reached to prevent t .. submitted 05/21/12

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It used to be that a sworn oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution was the only promise required to become president. But that no longer seems to be enough for a growing number of Republican interest groups, who are demanding that presidential candidates sign pledges shackling them to .. submitted 05/21/12

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