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The NSA Deserves a Permanent Shutdown
Despite the reality that domestic government surveillance is the one of the most unnecessary programs, the NSAu2019s surveillance programs are exempt from a government shutdown.
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The Emperor Has No Clothes: A Native Perspective of the Government Shutdown
They've done it. A mere thirty Republican Tea Party extremists have managed to shut down the U.S. government, potentially tanking a national economy that's already on life support. Ironically …
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Fifteen Pros and Cons about Government Slowdown
The larger picture of the U.S. government's slowdown (incorrectly labeled “shutdown”) is a struggle over a centralized and incoherent bureaucracy that continues to seize trillions of dollars more than …
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Individualism is for the Rich
Many people in America believe that people's success in life is based on the individual, and that if you do not have any success in life, there is no …
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Veterans Don’t Want to be “Pawns” in Shutdown Fight
As the impact on veterans becomes part of the contentious debate over the government shutdown, the commander of one of the nationu2019s leading veterans organizations said Friday that they …
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Playing Chicken With Food Safety
Protesters speak out against new rules the US Department of Agriculture wants to put into effect u2013 bad rules that would transfer much of the work inspecting pork and …
The White Man’s Last Tantrum?
With the U.S. government shutdown and a threatened credit default, Tea Party Republicans are testing out a new system of national governance in which they get their way u2013 …
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Witnessing the Projects: Audrey Petty’s “High Rise Stories“
In “High Rise Stories,” editor Audrey Petty has put a human face on public housing, offering front-line histories that address the institutional roadblocks and self-sabotage that all too often …
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Anatomy of Banning a Worldview
Tucson schools banned books, shut down the Raza studies department and colluded with Arizona to attempt to ban a purportedly
Herman Wallace’s Conviction Overturned and Immediate Release Ordered!
No application for bail is required, and the State is given 30 days to notify Herman if they plan to re-indict him.