To even read them is to sink into a mire of uncontrolled Internet.

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The survey gives some ammunition to stimulus supporters with its projections showing the U.S. is emerging from the financial mire better than Europe, which is facing a new crisis of extreme youth unemployment.

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Many are wondering whether a new pontiff will choose to lead the church in a different direction -- and can lift it out of the mire of scandal that has bogged down this pope's time in office.

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As Benedict closes the door behind him, many are wondering whether a new pontiff will choose to lead the church in a different direction -- and can lift it out of the mire of scandal that has bogged down this pope's time in office.

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However, there is enough at stake in the battle over the fiscal cliff that the GOP should take a break from wallowing in the mire long enough to demand that the job of scoring the competing tax plans be taken away from the anti-growth, static-scoring CBO, and turned over to the free market.

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As we continue to waddle through the mire of sequestration, budgets, and deficit debates, this is a lesson both parties need to digest.

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Many economists would also like to see Japan commit itself to a whopping fiscal stimulus in the hope that a faster-growing economy could drag the rest of the region out of the mire.

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