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The key 'R' word is Republican, not Romney With all the efforts to understand the recent election defeat, a lot of the focus has been on former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his campaign. That is exactly the wrong way to begin analyzing the outcome of the 2012 campaign. The focus on Romney as a candidate is profoundly misleading for those who want to prepare for future Republican victories. Any analysis of recent Republican presidential results will reveal a systemic failure which can’t be ascribed to Romney. The last clear Republican presidential victory was in 1988 when Vice President George...

The reason the country is uneasy is a distinct sense of not just incompetence but incomprehension. CIA interrogators will face a special prosecutor, and Khalid Sheik Mohammed will bask in a civilian trial in New York. Obama banishes the term "war on terror." Obama may have declared the war over. Unfortunately al-Qaeda has not. More jarring still were Obama's references to the terrorist as a "suspect" who "allegedly tried to ignite an explosive device." You can hear the echo of FDR: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- Japanese naval and air force suspects...

Faces of Death: The U.S. Dollar in Crisis by: Ron Hera October 09, 2009 /snip Following two sequential economic bubbles, the dot-com bubble and the real estate bubble, no one has yet correctly called either the bottom for the US economy or the start of a US economic recovery. Nonetheless, each day, news reports, articles and statements by officials and commentators reveal new economic data and offer new analysis. Unfortunately, both the economic data and the interpretations offered by officials and commentators are contradictory. It appears that both inflation and deflation are occurring at the same time; that the US...