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"Bush-Era" Search Policy for Travelers Unchanged by Obama - 0 views

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    The Obama administration will largely preserve Bush-era procedures allowing the government to search (and copy) -- without suspicion of wrongdoing -- the contents of a traveler's laptop computer, cellphone or other electronic device, although officials said new policies would expand oversight of such inspections.\n\nThe policy, disclosed Thursday in a pair of Department of Homeland Security directives, describes more fully than did the Bush administration the procedures by which travelers' laptops, iPods, cameras and other digital devices can be searched and seized when they cross a U.S. border. And it sets time limits for completing searches.\n\nBut representatives of civil liberties and travelers groups say they see little substantive difference between the Bush-era policy, which prompted controversy, and this one.\n\n"It's a disappointing ratification of the suspicionless search policy put in place by the Bush administration," said Catherine Crump, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union. "It provides a lot of procedural safeguards, but it doesn't deal with the fundamental problem, which is that under the policy, government officials are free to search people's laptops and cellphones for any reason whatsoever."
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Health-care bill wouldn't bring real reform | Howard Dean | Dec 17, 2009 - 0 views

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    "Health-care bill wouldn't bring real reform TOOLBOX Resize Print E-mail Yahoo! Buzz ad_icon COMMENT 248 Comments | View All » POST A COMMENT You must be logged in to leave a comment. Log in | Register Why Do I Have to Log In Again? Log In Again? CLOSE We've made some updates to washingtonpost.com's Groups, MyPost and comment pages. We need you to verify your MyPost ID by logging in before you can post to the new pages. We apologize for the inconvenience. Discussion Policy Your browser's settings may be preventing you from commenting on and viewing comments about this item. See instructions for fixing the problem. Discussion Policy CLOSE Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. Finally, we will take steps to block users who violate any of our posting standards, terms of use or privacy policies or any other policies governing this site. Please review the full rules governing commentaries and discussions. You are fully responsible for the content that you post. Who's Blogging » Links to this article By Howard Dean Thursday, December 17"
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Obama the Realist | Paul Wolfowitz | Foreign Policy - 0 views

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    Obama the realist. Not the pragmatist. Certainly not the idealist. Realism as a doctrine: The principal purpose of U.S. foreign policy SHOULD be to manage relations between states, rather than to alter the nature of states. U.S. foreign policy shouldn't be in the business of nation-building.
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Noam Chomsky on the place of human rights in U.S. foreign policy | The European Courier - 0 views

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    Chomsky: U.S. concerned about human rights only in the enemy countries http://t.co/ODoBSWy
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Bailout for the People || Basic Income Guarantees || Cancerous Monetary System in USA - 0 views

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    Isn't it fiinally time to enact a "basic income guarantee"? The lack of individual and family income security in the midst of a highly-developed economy is a travesty under any circumstances. But the contradiction of "poverty in the midst of plenty" that has plagued the world since the start of the Industrial Revolution is becoming much more grave in the U.S. and abroad. The problem, of course, is one of distribution of earnings, and excess production capacity relative to available income... Winston Churchill gave eloquent testimony to this conundrum of the modern age when delivering the Romanes Lecture at Oxford University on June 19, 1930. This was a few months after the crash of the U.S. stock market marked the start of the Great Depression. Churchill said: "Who would have thought that it would be easier to produce by toil and skill all the most necessary or desirable commodities than it is to find consumers for them? Who would have thought that cheap and abundant supplies of all the basic commodities would find the science and civilization of the world unable to utilize them? Have all our triumphs of research and organization bequeathed us only a new punishment: the Curse of Plenty? Are we really to believe that no better adjustment can be made between supply and demand? Yet the fact remains that every attempt has failed. Many various attempts have been made, from the extremes of Communism in Russia to the extremes of Capitalism in the United States. They include every form of fiscal policy and currency policy. But all have failed, and we have advanced little further in this quest than in barbaric times. Surely it is this mysterious crack and fissure at the basis of all our arrangements and apparatus upon which the keenest minds throughout the world should be concentrated.
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Rethinking Monetary and Financial Policy: Practical suggestions for monitoring financial stability while generating employment and poverty reduction - 0 views

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    "Epstein, Gerald Rethinking Monetary and Financial Policy: Practical suggestions for monitoring financial stability while generating employment and poverty reduction Publication Date: 11/20/2009"
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Public Policy Options to Build Wealth for America's Middle Class - 0 views

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    Weller, Christian E. | Helburn, Amy Public Policy Options to Build Wealth for America's Middle Class Publication Date: 11/20/2009
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Public Investment, Industrial Policy and U.S. Economic Renewal - 0 views

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    Pollin, Robert | Baker, Dean Public Investment, Industrial Policy and U.S. Economic Renewal Publication Date: 12/17/2009
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Green Prosperity: How Clean-Energy Policies Can Fight Poverty and Raise Living Standards in the United States - 0 views

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    "Pollin, Robert | Wicks-Lim, Jeannette | Garrett-Peltier, Heidi Green Prosperity: How Clean-Energy Policies Can Fight Poverty and Raise Living Standards in the United States Publication Date: 6/18/2009"
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The Effectiveness of Monetary Policy Reconsidered - 0 views

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    "Weeks, John The Effectiveness of Monetary Policy Reconsidered Publication Date: 6/22/2009"
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Obama's Economic Policy: Achievements, Problems & Prospects - 0 views

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    "Epstein, Gerald Obama's Economic Policy: Achievements, Problems & Prospects Publication Date: 3/12/2009"
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Middle East Policy Council | Study Resources - 0 views

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    Middle East Policy Council
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U.S. PIRG // Standing Up to Powerful Interests - 0 views

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Enlightened Economics: There Is an Alternative - 0 views

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    Both Republicans and Democrats have been explaining that "There Is No Alternative," we need public policies promoting austerity because government is "out of money." The question seems to be not "do we need austerity?" but "will we be austere sooner or austere later?" Meanwhile, the bipartisan consensus is that the government is definitely out of money. But these assertions are at odds with the common knowledge that the U.S. government literally creates its own money. Unlike the euro, the dollar is a sovereign, fiat currency, unconstrained by exchange rates or treaties. And since Nixon closed the gold window, government can issue dollars without waiting for gold or silver mines to provide any backing for them. So we can't possibly be "out of money," any more than the Bureau of Weights and Measures can be "out of inches."
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Google Moderator | Brainstorm, Discuss, Vote, Collaborate, Create, Organize in Online Discussions - 0 views

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    What should our priorities be for the Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight? What hearings would you like to see? What contract or program needs additional oversight? What laws, regulations, and policies need to be changed? I'll need all the suggestions and support I can get -- I'll draw heavily on your input as we move forward toward a system that better serves the government and the taxpayer. -Senator Claire McCaskill
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Counterterrorism Blog - 0 views

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    First multi-expert blog devoted solely to counter-terrorism issues, serving as a gateway to the community for policymakers and serious researchers. Designed to provide real-time information about terrorism cases and policy developments.
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Why Voters Aren't Motivated by a Laundry List of Positions on Issues | George Lakoff - 0 views

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    Obama, letting policy wonks sell his healthcare reform, fails. Why? policymakers share a list, not a unifying idea.
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Obama and the Dems Just Sound Too Wonky on Health Care - 0 views

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    Compared to Obama's charismatic presidential campaign, why is he communicating so poorly on health care reform? George Lakoff says: He's letting policy wonks sell it. And these policymakers are communicating a list, not sharing a unifying idea.
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