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A simple country boy’s solution to the budget “crisis”
Some conservatives see all these fact-laden critiques of our various GOP manufactroversies (see Ryan, Paul) and wonder where are the Democratic plans to solve the financial crisis? (I have been asked...
View ArticleA Crack in the Theocratic Infrastructure?
Sarah Posner reports at Religion Dispatches about how professors in class at the law school founded by the late Jerry Falwell pressured students to choose “God’s Law” over “Man’s” in an exam question...
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Can US Hold Corporations Accountable Anymore?
In the UK the News-Of-The-World/News Corp/Murdoch scandal seems to be reawakening democracy. A big, powerful corporation has been found to be engaged in criminal activity, manipulating news, paying off...
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Romney’s Mysterious Million Dollar Donor
Mitt Romney has been kicking ass on the campaign fundraising trail, leaving his GOP rivals in the dust raising $15-20 million through June 30, 2011: “Obviously, Romney has leveraged his standing in...
View ArticleDemocracy Is Now Un-American
This tactic of inducing public distrust of government is not only cynical, it is schizophrenic. For people who profess to revere the Constitution, it is strange that they so caustically denigrate the...
View ArticleThe 1% – They Always Have Some Mighty Fine Whine
With their “We are the 99%” chant, Occupy Wall Street protesters call for and end to the corporate corruption of democracy, to America’s two-tiered system of justice, and to the rigged economics that...
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With People in Streets, Mubarak Congress Focused on Taking Money Out of Economy
This situation of crony government protecting the connected rich while people are in the streets demanding change is more and more reminiscent of Egypt under Mubarak. In the real world tens of...
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Some Persons More Equal Than Others
As cities around the country trade notes on how to crack down on peaceful Occupy protesters, a chant goes up: ‘Who do you protect? Who do you serve?’ As the empire strikes back, Chris Hayes offers a...
View ArticleEven The Language Is Corrupt
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH Immediately and Henceforth, Naked aggression shall be called “preemptive war” Propaganda shall be called “news” State kidnapping shall be called...
View ArticleEducation “Reform”: Putting Middle Men First
Last summer, I asked this question: Why are millionaires and billionaires targeting public education? For the same reason banksters pimped mortgage loans. For the same reason Wall Street wanted to...
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