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Three Things To Know About Obama’s Pick for EPA Chief
Wondering about McCarthyu2019s pedigree and why enviros are so excited to see her head up the EPA?
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The Awkward Threesome (Geek, Nerd, and Dork)
My primary identity is nerd, but my moon is in geek and I have a dork ascendant. These days, everyone wants to be a geek. They want the pseudo-geek …
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Bloomberg’s Calculates Annual US Subsidy to Megabanks at $83 Billion
The first-ever analysis of the taxpayer-subsidy to the Wall Street mega-banks finds that this subsidy accounts for virtually all their profits. Applying figures from a path-breaking study by two …
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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 …