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Don’t lose it in the couch

Some smart people — including Manhattan Rep. Jerry Nadler and Josh Barro of Bloomberg View — have what they think is a clever idea.

To avert a standoff on the debt ceiling, they want President Obama to mint a platinum coin, value it at $1 trillion and deposit it in the Treasury — thus eliminating $1 trillion of the national debt.

Under their reading of federal law, this authority exists. Under our reading of common sense, we can’t stop laughing.

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Syria's sarin gas and Obama's red line

BY JOSH GREENMAN Over at Time, Michael Crowley asks the necessary question about Syria, which becomes even more pointed as NBC News reports that government forces are loading sarin gas precursor chemicals onto bombs: Why has the White House and the international community insisted ...

What this video — Hillary Clinton's first 2016 campaign ad? — tells us

BY JOSH GREENMAN This adoring tribute video, played at the Saban Forum for Middle East Policy last Friday, is the little piece of evidence that prompted the New Yorker's David Remnick to believe that Hillary Clinton wants to live in the White House again — and not, as Michael ...

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Attorney Jessica Dominguez, left speaks with Jose Luis Barajas and his wife, Laura Barajas at Dominguez' office in Los Angeles Friday, Jan 6, 2012. The Obama administration proposed a rule change Friday Jan. 6, 2012 to reduce the time that illegal immigrant spouses and children are separated from their American relatives while they try to gain legal status in the United States. The couple are getting advice from Dominguez for Laura, who is in the country illegally, and her proposed trip to Mexico to get her legal papers. Her husband Jose has legal papers. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Of the many wrongs that riddle America’s immigration system, among the worst is an insistence on tearing families apart....

Boehner the betrayer

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They beat a bad rap

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Betrayal in Sandy aid snub

House Speaker John Boehner walks out after a second meeting with House Republicans at the Capitol on January 1.

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Better teaching, beyond evaluations

BATHGATE- 01/18/2012- BRONX, NEW YORK

Levin and Daly: Faced with a Jan. 17 deadline, New York City may soon have a new teacher evaluation system to help identify those educators who are excelling and those who need extra support. This foc...

The school bus strike threat is real

John Macrae 12 gets on bus every morning at 6:25am for a 3 hour round trip ride to his Brooklyn school. He does it because his parents think middle schools in the Rockaways are not good enough for him.

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Our daughter did not die in vain

Andrew Goldstein is taken from the 13th Precinct stationhouse after his arrest for allegedly pushing Kendra Webdale to her death under a subway train.

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Joe Lieberman's legacy: The battle against He...

FILE--Shiite Muslim residents watch militants of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, or Party of God, with faces painted black, during a parade in south Beirut in this Feb 16, 1996 file photo. Muslim militants observe Quds Day annually on the last Friday of Islam's holy month of Ramadan to protest the 1967 Israeli occupation of Jerusalem's Arab sector. Al-Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem. Ramadan's holiness never stopped Iraqi Muslims from shooting at Iranians in the 1980s or Egyptian Muslims from gassing Yemenis in the 1960s. Yet U.S.-allied Muslim leaders are suggesting a cease-fire for the month.(AP Photo/Ali Mohamed) Original Filename: ATTACKS_GUNS_OF_RAMADAN_WX105.jpg

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Drop the hate crime charge

Alleged subway pusher Erika Menendez.

Kohn: Last weekend, a woman was arrested for pushing a man to his death in front of an oncoming subway train in Queens.

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