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Emails Show Energy Dept. Sought to Hide Solyndra Layoffs Until After 2010 Elections
As solar panel startup Solyndra planned a round of layoffs last year after securing a half-billion dollar government loan, the Department of Energy dispatched an unusual request: Hold off …
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Insurance Mandate May Be Health Bill’s Undoing
Washington - As Barack Obama battled Hillary Rodham Clinton over health care during the Democratic presidential primaries of 2008, he was adamant about one thing: Americans, he insisted, should …
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Six Burning Questions About the Violent Crackdowns on Occupations Around the Country
Occurring without provocation, the Occupy crackdown gives the appearance of an orchestrated effort to thwart an emerging protest movement. Early morning Tuesday, in New York City, hundreds of police …
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Karl Rove Flips Out at Protesters: “Who Gave You the Right to Occupy America?“
Last night, former Bush official Karl Rove appeared at Johns Hopkins University to speak as a part of the annual Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium. Rove soon discovered that he …
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House GOP Classifies Pizza as a Vegetable
Earlier this year, the USDA made an attempt to bolster the nutrition guidelines for the federal school lunch program. Under the new guidelines, for instance, school lunches would be …
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Unaddressed Problems With High-Stakes, Standardized Tests
In 1949, I was a self-employed trucker, buying and hauling timber for shoring up the roofs of coal mines in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. A very long …
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Does Race Explain Penn State’s Blind Eye to Sex Scandal?
Enough of the ghoulish, sordid facts are known about the Penn State University child sex scandal to say this. The alleged child rapes were known by some athletic department …
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Half of Vets Returning From Iraq and Afghanistan Need Medical Attention
(Photo: RunItsTheFuz / Flickr) More than half of America's former warriors are returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan with medical and mental problems that need treatment, according …
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Berkeley Activist Hit by Police Explains How Several UC Regents Profit from Higher Levels of Student Debt
Earlier today, OccupyCal protesters at the University of California Berkeley staged a mass “teach-in” and protest to stand in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, and to rebuke …
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No Speedy Trial for Bradley Manning, Now in Pre-Trial Confinement for 560 Days
Five months ago, on April 22, 2011, over 400 citizens converged on Quantico Marine Base to protest the pre-trial conditions of alleged Wikileaks whistleblower US Army Private First Class …