Thursday's Daily Brief

Thursday, October 20, 2011 Muammar Gaddafi Killed, Captured In Sirte: Conflicting Reports POLITICS Beyond The Battlefield: As Veterans Fight For Needed Care, Long-Term Funding Remains A Question Mark BUSINESS Global Jobs Crisis Takes Biggest Toll On Struggling Youth MEDIA MSNBC Announces Major Lineup Changes GREEN Owner Of Exotic Animal Farm Allegedly Killed Self After Freeing Animals GAY VOICES Guy Fieri Homophobia Controversy Erupts BLOG POSTS Jared Bernstein: What Happened to the Republican Party on Taxes? The Republican Party may revere Ronald Reagan, but they definitely wouldn't recognize each other if they met at a tax policy conference today. Nor would the gipper last for long on the Republicans side of the deficit-reduction super committee. Shirin Sadeghi: Hillary Clinton Wants Gaddafi Killed This week Hillary Clinton openly seemed to call for the political assassination of Moammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader. But this is actually against US law. Mohamed A. El-Erian: America at Stall Speed? The longer the policymaking impasse persists, the greater the stall-speed risk for an economy that already has an unemployment crisis, a large budget deficit, many underwater mortgages, and policy interest rates floored at zero. Joan Williams: Why (Almost) Everything Women Are Told About Work Is Wrong Not only does a lot of the advice out there not help women, much of it actually hurts them. Mark Hyman, MD: Why You Should Not Stop Taking Your Vitamins The recent media hype around vitamins is a classic case of drawing the wrong conclusions from good science.

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