Fed rejects new action to bolster faltering economy

The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that the U.S. economy was slowing and unlikely to create nearly enough work this year for millions of jobless Americans, but Fed leaders declined to take any steps to boost growth.

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Washington Post poll: Obama leads Romney as campaigns converge on Virginia

President Obama leads former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in Virginia, but voters in the commonwealth are evenly divided on the White House’s major policies, a new Washington Post poll shows.

Obama is ahead of the presumed Republican presidential nominee by 51 percent to 44 percent among registered voters. And Romney does no better against Obama than he did in a Post poll a year ago, despite his emergence as the GOP standard-bearer.

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Self-Righteous Press Embarrasses Itself in Poland

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Pro-Life Sentences

Scott Lemieux, The American Prospect
Republican-controlled state legislatures are passing a wave of restrictions on abortion. Now the courts are backing them up.Dissenting in Gonzales v. Carhart, the 2007 case that upheld a federal ban on "partial birth" abortion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg charged that the majority "refuses to take [Planned Parenthood v.] Casey ... seriously." This inclination, not surprisingly, has filtered down to the lower federal courts as well. Two recent cases conspicuously refuse to take a woman's reproductive rights seriously, and indeed one judge failed to apply Casey at...

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Is Romney's business experience still an asset?

Mitt Romney's business experience is his strongest argument to voters that he has the skills to boost job creation and right America's economic ship. Or is it?

Romney's business record has been mauled by an ad blitz criticizing his work at Bain Capital and last week's barbs surrounding when he actually left the firm. Polls indicate that Romney's business experience was widely seen as a positive attribute early this year, but has taken a hit in swing states since attacks hit the airwaves. 

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Romney Changes His Tone in Europe

Ashley Parker, New York Times
WARSAW — On the campaign trail, Mitt Romney mocks it as “a social welfare state” and an “entitlement nation.” He rails that it smothers entrepreneurs and innovators. And he says it is simply not working.The target of Mr. Romney’s dismissiveness: Europe. And he warns ominously that if the United States is not careful, the country may end up just like it.

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