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WASHINGTON — On Dec. 31, just hours before a New Year's Eve celebration, President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. Section 1245 of the law contains language providing authority to impose economic sanctions on Iran in order to deter the ayatollahs from acquiring nuclear weapons. White House efforts to have the sanctions provision stripped from the bill failed, and the measure became law with a quiet flourish of the presidential pen. Ever since, Washington and Tehran have been waging a war of words. None of this works to the advantage of the American...

None of our political leaders are discussing these root causes to the problems of our economy: 1. The percent of people between 40 and 55 years old is decreasing. 2. The purchase of foreign oil is draining 5% of our economy each year. 3. Manufacturing is decreasing as a percent of GDP. The negative impact of each of these is documented in my book, Save America Now. Our politicians are not addressing these root causes to our economic problems. Instead, they are implementing programs that waste money with no results at creating jobs. ......Instead of tackling the problems of a...

American manufacturers took a huge battering in 2002 as the nation's trade deficit hit a record $435.2 billion. A deficit occurs when America imports more than it exports. It's disappointing that the U.S. continues to have wide deficits with its two trading partners in the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico and Canada. While NAFTA has proved of tremendous benefit to those two countries, the United States, and particularly the southern border area, still have not seen the rich economic harvest promised by NAFTA proponents. But the bulk of the deficit is with China and Japan. China accounted for $103.1...