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By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 6 (UPI) -- More U.S. job creation require trimming back on tax increases and spending cuts and more realistic and less-ideological trade, energy and regulatory policies.
By JEFF M. MOORE, UPI Outside View Commentator
ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 6 (UPI) -- War, maybe in the form of a low-intensity conflict, has descended upon Egypt.
By SHIHOKO GOTO, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Time is running out for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would be the world's biggest trade deal, to be clinched on time.
By TARAS KUZIO, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- What has been described as a "trade war" between Ukraine and Russia has overshadowed two more important factors that have more important long-term strategic implications for the U.S.-Russian-Ukrainian strategic triangle.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Forecasters expect the U.S. Labor Department to report the U.S. economy added 175,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate remained steady at 7.4 percent.
Hesitation on Syrian strike threatens economic recovery
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's vacillation on Syria -- delaying military action and booting the decision to Congress -- poses grave threats to U.S. prosperity.
By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" offers a relevant insight into how to respond -- or not -- to chemical weapons attacks in Syria that claimed 1,500 lives.
By JAMES ZUMWALT, UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., Sept. 3 (UPI) -- A 5-year-old Saudi girl may prove to wield more influence over her people than the country's religious leaders touting twisted "virtues" of Islam.
Seriously? Scoring zero
By WILLIAM SPRIGGS, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said he pick a fight with U.S. President Barack Obama over the nation's debt ceiling.
By STRUAN STEVENSON, UPI Outside View Commentator
BRUSSELS, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- The predictable consequence of the West's failure to take action in Syria manifested itself Saturday night in the brutal massacre of unarmed civilians in Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. gross domestic product growth was revised up for the second quarter to 2.5 percent from 1.7 percent because the trade deficit was much smaller than originally estimated and investments in inventory were revised upward.
Egyptian and Arab democracy uber alles?
By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Insanity has been described as constantly repeating the same mistake and expecting a different outcome. That characterization sadly applies to U.S. attitudes and policies toward much of what is happening in Egypt and the Arab and Islamic worlds.
Muslim Brotherhood's world domination blueprint
By JAMES ZUMWALT, UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- The Egyptian army has taught the Muslim Brotherhood the meaning of putting the cart before the horse.
No easy fixes for NATO
By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- To paraphrase Shakespeare: Alas poor NATO. We knew it well.
By JAMES ZUMWALT, UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., Aug. 20 (UPI) -- If more Richard Kinkaids and fewer Al Gores were involved, the United States' national security interests might prevail.
Wrong again -- It ain't the war on terror stupid!
By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Unspecific warnings last week about an al-Qaida terrorist plot were taken very seriously.
By JAMES ZUMWALT, UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Was Adolf Hitler born too early? That is, could a 21st-century Hitler have prevailed in imposing Nazism upon the world where a 20th-century Hitler failed?
By RYSZARD CZARNECKI, UPI Outside View Commentator
WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- We have seen failures of the United Nations in protecting refugees. If the world stands by and watches, the same could happen to Iranian refugees in Iraq.
Tough choices behind Obama's mortgage initiative
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama wants private banks to use depositor and investor funds to write 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages at affordable rates. He won't admit those goals and others imposed by Congress require the federal government to guarantee mortgages and banks against failure.
Don't view Iran's president with rose-colored glasses
By MURIEL TURNER, UPI Outside View Commentator
LONDON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- The West has long shaken hands with despots in the Middle East in the name of stability and order and this continues with the change of presidents in Iran.
By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Will anything improve when Congress returns to Washington? The answer isn't reassuring.
Perhaps it's not her man Huma stands by
By JAMES ZUMWALT, UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Huma Abedin -- wife of candidate for New York City mayor and disgraced former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y. -- is confounding political analysts.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Commerce Department is expected Tuesday to report the June deficit on international trade in goods and services was $43 billion.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Republicans are from Venus and U.S. President Barack Obama is from Mars. Nothing better demonstrates this than their stances on taxes, spending and jobs.
By STRUAN STEVENSON, UPI Outside View Commentator
BRUSSELS, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Continued bombings, repeated terrorist attacks and spiraling daily casualties in Iraq have given rise to grave concerns in the international community.
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden order take-out lunch at Taylor Gourmet on Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington, D.C. on October 4, 2013. The reason he gave was they are starving and the establishment is giving a 10 percent discount to furloughed government workers as an indication of how ordinary Americans are looking out for one another. UPI/Pete Marovich/Pool