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“Most Dangerous City in America” Is Disbanding Its Current Police Force
Instead, Camden, New Jersey will employ a nonunionized police force of 400 officers.
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How to Make Work Pay Again
The latest Census data prove that we need to start rebuilding the American middle class, and a new report shows how it can be done.
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Mitt Romney Invests in Global-Tech Sweatshop in China
Does Mr. Romney seriously believe that young men and women in China are racing to climb over fortress-like walls topped with barbed wire, just to get a poorly paid …
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The Real Question: Why Don’t People Make Enough to Pay Income Taxes?
Mitt Romney was caught on video complaining that 47% of us don't make enough to pay taxes, believe they are victims, are dependent on government, etc. The right question …
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TSA Is Finding More Guns at Airport Security Checkpoints
Security experts attribute the increase to two factors: a rise in gun sales and the sharp growth of so-called right-to-carry laws across the country that significantly relax regulations on …
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General Strike in Greece Says “We Won’t Submit!“
When Greece took an unfortunate pioneering role in the economic crisis, economic shock therapy meant that most working people saw their lives turned upside down in a matter of …
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From Start to Finish: Why We Won and How We Are Losing
Has the process of evolution in the hominid line produced a species that is both very clever and very crazy?
Election Countdown 2012: #Occupy Arrests From October 2011 Ruled Unconstitutional, and More
This week in the Election Countdown: Associate Judge Thomas Donnelly ruled the October 2011 arrests were unconstitutional because the city routinely chooses not to enforce the curfew for events the …
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Deluded by “Skewed” Polls
Conservatives are abuzz with a new conspiracy theory: Polls showing Obama with a lead over Mitt Romney are deliberately being skewed by the Liberal Mainstream Media.
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The World in a Grain of Sand
“In this grain of sand a world is foreshadowed,” writes Richard Lichtman on the invasion and occupation of Iraq by the US.