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OK, so Hillary's been a bad little sociopath. She let an ambassador and three other Americans get brutalized and murdered. She feels nothing for them. She just knows what she wants and that is the Presidency. What she deserves is to be prosecuted and jailed. Enter Jim Gilmore. Gilmore worked as a prosecutor. He also worked in Army counterintelligence. So he knows what he's talking about when it comes to Benghazi. He's a natural born citizen by any definition. He's a veteran. He's got executive experience and is a very solid conservative. Why are we not considering Jim Gilmore? Do...

NEW YORK - Stocks dropped in early trading Friday after a report showed the first back-to-back decline in big ticket factory goods in two years, a surprising sign that the economy is modereating at a faster pace than many expected. ADVERTISEMENT Durable goods orders dropped 0.3 percent in May after a sharp 4.7 percent drop the month before. Economists expected orders to rise 0.4 percent. That raised concerns on Wall Street that the Federal Reserve's interest rate hikes, while fighting inflation, could slow the economy more than needed. With the Fed meeting Wednesday and Thursday — and widely expected to...

In the short-term, the ongoing war with Islamic fascists from Afghanistan to Iraq, and in peripheral areas from Canada and Manhattan to Madrid, Bali, and London, seems surreal. Not to mention frustrating: almost every day the press highlights another furious outburst from some entertainers or intellectuals who are just enough on the fringes of American popular culture to warrant momentary coverage of their lunacy. Neil Young is worried about the reception of his new album? He hypes George Bush’s malignancies. The Dixie Chicks and Madonna are bothered about being pegged abroad as part of George Bush’s empire? Presto, they call...

...The United States is a big exporter of plastics, aircraft, specialized industrial machinery, scientific instruments, corn, cotton and soybeans. But producing and shipping such products requires importing oil and natural gas. ... We have a large capital surplus, otherwise known as a current account deficit. What do countries with large capital account surpluses have in common? Economic growth