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Rancor Between Gingrich and Romney Spills Over in Debate
Manchester, New Hampshire - Tensions between Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney finally spilled onto the debate stage Sunday morning when moderator David Gregory gave Gingrich the opportunity to call …
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Organize in 2012
It's a new year, at last. I say “at last” because 2011 was a rough ride, politically. Here's a summary of the bigger bumps: non-stop Congressional gridlock, …
Bird-Dogging the New Hampshire Candidates
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, with his wife, Callista, during a campaign stop at the Pinkerton Academy, in Derry, New Hampshire, January …
Author of “Pity the Billionaire” Maps Our Ideological Fantasy World
(Image: Metropolitan Books) Thomas Frank is the author of “Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right” (Metropolitan Books). He wrote several …
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The Gospel of the Penniless, Jobless, Marginalized and Despised
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Ten Years of Guantanamo: What Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld Knew
The Bush administration deceived the American people about the certain danger posed by Guantanamo Bay detainees – the “worst of the worst” as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called them …
The Year of Voter Suppression
Claren Merritt, 3, looks up at her father Andy Merritt as he casts his ballot in Atlanta, on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. (Photo: Erik Lesser/The New York …
Gaming the Global Economy
While members of the 99 percent made New Year’s resolutions to shave a few bucks off the grocery bill, turn the heat down, or maybe donate a few dollars …
The Cost of Trickle-Down Government Job Creation: $1.5 Million Per Worker
(Photo: Gamma Man) Suppose I were to tell you that for the past two years the federal government has been spending nearly $1.5 million to create one …
Judy Miller Alert! The New York Times Is Lying About Iran’s Nuclear Program
(Image: JR / TO; Adapted: indigoprime, D Sharon Pruitt) It's deja vu all over again. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is trying to trick America …