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Five Missouri Democrats Discover Crosshairs Outside Their Capitol Offices
Five Democratic State Senators in Missouri discovered large, orange crosshair stickers over their office nameplates on Tuesday in the Capitol Building in Jefferson. The targets included all four Democratic …
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Gulf Reopens for Drilling as Obama Administration Accused of Low-Balling Effects of Spill
As the Obama administration announces the launch of its Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future, including a plan to lease oil and gas production in parts of the Gulf …
“Fantastic” Drone Technology Comes to Rescue on the Border
Candice Miller, the Republican chair of the House Border and Marine Security Subcommittee of the House Homeland Security Committee, is effusive in her praise of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), …
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Romney’s Anti-Obama Rhetoric: A Demonstration of Moral Cowardice
(Photo: GRAFF, Norway / CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) "In the general election, I’ll be pointing out that the president took the reins of …
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Education Reform: An Order-of-Magnitude Improvement
Imagine the present corporately promoted education reform effort as a truck, its tires nearly flat from the weight of the many unexamined assumptions it carries. On board: …
How Power and Influence Helped Big Banks Rewrite the Rules
Big banks are rewriting the rules of our economy to the exclusive benefit of their own bottom line. But how did our political and financial class shift the benefits …
The Ongoing War Against Truth
Part I – The Spanish Front Among the numerous wars that are perennially being waged worldwide is the one between truth-tellers and those who would …
An Alternative to War With Iran
Relations between Iran and the West, fraught with tension and conflict for decades, have in the past few months reached a fever pitch. There is talk of war on …
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The Plow and the iPhone: Conservative Fantasies About the Miracles of the Market
A central doctrine of evangelicals for the “free market” is its capacity for innovation: New ideas, new technologies, new gadgets — all flow not from governments but from individuals …
The Revolution Will Be Edible: Occupy Wall Street; the Arab Spring, No Bread, No Peace
Last February, World Bank President Robert Zoellick noted that the inability of poor people to feed themselves and their families contributed greatly to the civil unrest that swept across …