food prices fluctuate quite a bit and down. same reason that they don t include gas prices in that measure. but what mr. paul is basically noting is that for all you americans buying food, buying gas, living their daily lives, inflation can feel more in force than the numbers show. actually much more of a problem than he s acknowledged. thank you, benjamin. his work is available online at nytimes.com. for the first time in seve months, the president is sitting down with a bipartisan session. this is the firsteting since last summer s debt consolidation. that meant senate republican lead leader the house speaker john boehner that left out the house. you may note that last summer, the president and the republican leader of the house encounter during the debt ceiling talks. eric canter repeatedly interrupted the president during the end of the meeting.canter s president walked out but they have been working on a number of legislative jobs packages. the jobs issue, the econom
conjunction with the supreme court. franklin graham apologized to president obama for questioning his christian faith during an interview vm graham saying i regret statements which may have cast doubt on the faith of president obama. graham is the son of billy graham. he said, i apologize to the president and any i have offended for not articulating why i am not supporting him in this election. members of the naacp accused him of racial dischord. the number of mosques increased in the last decade according to a new study researchers found that the national count was 2,106 islamic centers compared to 1,209 back in the year 2000. and under a thousand back in 1994. the report was released today. the title is the american 2011 based on mailing lists, websites and interviews with community leaders and surveyed 500 mosque leaders. former senator bob perry,. vacated. democrat as well. kerry was also a presidential candidate back in 1992 and a former nebraska governor. finally the
questioning the fed chair about managing debt and economic growth. you have many, many times including here today pointed out how important it is to have federal policy that reflects the impending crisis that we face in terms of managing the debt and how that weighs on economic grow growth. do you ever feel as though you are talking past your administration and congress that, you know, we are talking past each other and somehow you know, how can we make your message resonate? people like me are sympathetic to it, obviously. well, these criticisms are easy for me to make. i don t have to deal with the politics. i know they are very difficult. it s hard to explain to people why you have to tight your belt one way or another. i think on the one hand that educating the voters is an important thing. making sure people understand what the trade-offs are. if they understand it, they will be more sympathetic to the tough choices we face as a country. i also think that there is
help drive our economy. there is no question that a critical part of that trust is the trust of the flow of information between any of us and the intended recipient of our communication. we have taken for granted that we have lots laws that protect our communication through the mail and through the phone. you are not allowed to open someone else s mail. those laws that protect the privacy of communication we take for granted. confidentiality is fundamental to the trust that helps drive our participation in democracy, our desire to weigh in on matters and personal communications, and in economic commerce and exchange. it makes sense that as we move forward, as technology moves forward, that we ensure that that basic sense of trust is part of the technology of the future and the present. this is not a group that one needs to tell how critical the internet is, not only to our personal communications, to our democratic communications, to our economic communications. i could rea