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America’s Culture is Signing on the Dotted Line
The signing season has begun. Look through your local newspaper for the next few weeks, and you'll see a lot of posed pictures of high school athletes. Everyone will …
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What If Only “Outlaws” Had Guns? Look at These Statistics
The gun lobby likes to say “outlaw guns and only outlaws will have guns.” The fear mongering drives gun sales which is the NRA's purpose. (Why else would Wayne …
Sequester Crisis Solved: Flip The Debt
We have a little bit of a debt problem here in the USA. Thankfully for us, a group of concerned citizens, leaders, and patriots understand just how we got …
Bradley Manning and The US War on Whistleblowers (Alexa O’Brien interview)
Now that Bradley Manning has admitted to giving classified documents to WikiLeak, the government insists his crimes are tantamount to support for al-Qaida and international terrorism. These leaks, I …
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Tax Dodging: The Real Theft
While Speaker of the House John Boehner claims that taxes are theft, lets take a look at where the real theft is taking place.
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Survey: No Nuclear Plants Meet New Safety Standards
According to an Asahi Shimbun survey, none of Japan's 16 power plants are up to standard, making them ineligible to be restarted.
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The Right Wing Assault on America Is Working
“Rather than the terrible failure of government as portrayed in the media...sequestration is a major victory for right wing forces in their long war to destroy social democracy,” writes …
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What’s Worth Learning?
Marion Brady's 2011 book u201cWhatu2019s Worth Learningu201d asks and answesr this question: What knowledge is absolutely essential for every learner?
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US Consolidates Afghan Bases With Eye Toward Pulling Out
Forward Operating Base Apache, Afghanistan — At FOB Apache, U.S. military engineers are frantically finishing a second chow hall and a new recreational building four times bigger than the old …
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Gina McCarthy Tapped to Head EPA, Ernest Moniz to Lead Energy Department
President Barack Obama announces three cabinet-level nominations including Gina McCarthy for the Environmental Protection Agency, Ernest Moniz as his new Energy secretary.