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By Perry Anderson
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AP /J. David Ake
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President Obama’s erstwhile “car czar,” Steven Rattner, has paid a high price—$10 million, to be exact, not to mention his former position in the current administration—for his investment group’s involvement in a shady pension fund scheme.
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glennbeck.com
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Certain prominent media figures who shall remain nameless are getting all worked up about President Obama’s “czars” and, having latched onto this term as fodder for a little old-fashioned partisan punditry, are busy freaking out their followers with sinister socialist imagery—but let’s take a good look at the recent history of this term in American politics, shall we?
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blog.glodb.com
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One country, so many clunkers: The U.S. government-sponsored “cash for clunkers” program has come to a halt after six short days of enticing car owners to sacrifice their gas-guzzling relics to the scrap-heap gods and drive off in newer, greener models.
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fordnewsblog.wordpress.com
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What’s to be done about the floundering American automotive industry? Appoint a “car czar,” you say? No, this is a job for a whole team of people, such as the newly formed Presidential Task Force on Autos. One small hitch: It’ll be headed up by Timothy Geithner and Lawrence Summers.
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Flickr / SteelCityHobbies
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White House and congressional leaders have agreed to bail out the auto industry. Detroit will get $15 billion in loans and, to make sure the Big Three keep running after their warranties expire, a so-called car czar will oversee long-term restructuring. And because we’re really serious about getting this right, George W. Bush gets to pick the car czar. D’oh!
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Guantanamo Prisoner’s Case Demonstrates Unfairness of Military Commissions
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