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"If we cannot pay for a bill that all 100 senators support," Bunning said, "how can we tell the American people with a straight face that we will ever pay for anything?"
Presidents are usually blamed for deficits run while they are in office. But, in fact, presidents do not write budgets. Congress does. Presidents sign them. And the mammoth deficits of 2008 and 2009
"We are seriously concerned that the adoption of this draft resolution ... will harm Turkey-US relations and impede the efforts for the normalization of Turkey-Armenia relations," the
Israel must sooner than later choose between either continued occupation, which is bound to explode time and again and paradoxically undermine Israel's national security interests or peace with
Saudi Arabia would see a dramatic increase in its oil export revenues in such a scenario, the Saudis are nonetheless opposed to U.S. military action against Iran because, in their view, it could
Liquidation of this empire should have begun with the end of the Cold War. Now it is being forced upon us by the deficit-debt crisis. Like GM, we can't kick this can up the road any more, because we
An Iran with nuclear weapons would be dangerous and destabilizing, though I am not as convinced as some that it would automatically force Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey to go nuclear as well. If
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"There isn't a single sitting member of Congress – not one – that doesn't know exactly where we're headed. ... And to use the politics of fear and hate and division on each other – we're at a
“When we say that we don’t build nuclear bombs, it means that we won’t do so because we don’t believe in having it. … The Iranian nation is brave enough that if one day we wanted to build nuclear
Many people do not believe that three million Saudis are below the poverty line and 91 percent Saudis earn less than SR6,000 a month, said Turki Faisal Al-Rasheed, chairman of Golden Gras Inc., a
Another common cultural phenomenon is widespread reluctance to admit ignorance, even about obscure or trivial things.
President Obama, who said recently that “we are responsibly leaving Iraq to its people,” should watch out for his credibility against the contradictory and contradicting statements of his aides.
According to these sources, the smugglers used a trick that is to "ship oil in barrels" by claiming that they contain used vehicle fuel, which is usually exported to foreign companies to
Israeli politicians began blaming one another for allowing such a public diplomacy train wreck to take place while others turned to the various Israeli organizations that helped Goldstone, accusing
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