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The Voter ID Struggle in Pennsylvania: Losing ID Is About Losing More Than The Right to Vote
When states take away ID from poor and working folks, or limit poor and working peopleu2019s access to getting ID in the first place u2013 those people lose far …
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James Baldwin, Lisbeth Salander and the Rise of the Police State in Some Children’s Schools
P.L. Thomas discusses the fiction and reality of fear and power in the middle class cocoon.
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Return Your Eagle Scout Badge
After the BSA reaffirms its exclusion of homosexual members, former members return their badges and share their letters of resignation online.
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With Rates Low, Banks Increase Mortgage Profit
Interest rates on mortgages and refinancing are at record lows, but do not celebrate just yet, they could be lower.
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Thinking Makes It So
One may hate and despise the Electoral College, but it is the law of the land regarding presidential elections.
Washington Puts Its Money on Proxy War: The Election Year Outsourcing That No One’s Talking About
While the United States is currently engaged in just one outright proxy war, itu2019s laying the groundwork for the use of surrogate forces in the future, training u201cnativeu201d troops …
World War II: The Good War Gone Bad
So long as we resort to war to settle differences between nations, so long will we have to endure the horrors, the barbarities and excesses that war brings. -British …
Congress as Enabler: The Pentagon Can’t Kill the M-1 Tank, Only an IED Can (Part Two)
We have around 2,300 M-1s stashed around the world and 3,000 M-1s surpluses in the Nevada desert, waiting for the next large country-to-country tank war that may never come.
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Credit to Small Enterprises: The Silent Crisis
Because the financial sector competes with the rest of the economy for scarce resources, financial booms are not, in general, growth-enhancing.
America’s Syrian Jihad: An Old War in New Clothes
What began on 15, March 2011, with public demonstrations which rapidly accelerated into a national uprising, has now become an armed insurgency complete with suicide bombings - provoked by …